Hw Packet #2

Question 1

A school social work is observing and assessing a 10-year-old boy who was referred by his teacher for behavior and learning problems. Though the boy seems intelligent I am verbal, he is in attentive in class and has difficulty absorbing certain skills and reading and math . He is easily distracted. He rarely follows instruction and does not finish assignments. The social worker should first consider that the child.

Answer 1

Has a learning disorder

Question 2

In the first interview conducted in a family agency with voluntary client, the primary purpose of asking questions is

Answer 2

Delineate the presenting problem, so a decision can be made on the appropriateness, scope, and direction of additional interviews or treatment.

Question 3

A social worker in the neighborhood center receives definitive information that a 14-year-old boy from the area has a pistol that he carries to school. The workers information suggest that he could shoot someone. He is known to the agency, has an angry disposition, and is predisposed to fights. The workers first action is to.

Answer 3

Notify school officials and the police.

Question 4

The goal of case advocacy is usually too

Answer 4

Secure needs and services for client

Question 5

When adolescent is confronted with his drug use, and refuses to admit his involvement, despite definitive and competent evidence, this is known as

Answer 5

denial

Question 6

One goal of individual alcoholism treatment is

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to confront denial, and help the client face reality

Question 7

The concepts of pre-affiliation, power and control, intimacy, differentiation, and separation are associated with

Answer 7

The Boston model of group development

Question 8

The mission statement of the agency represents

Answer 8

A broad statement of the agencies, goal, and social purposes

Question 9

as social worker meets a recently widow 55-year-old friend at the supermarket and talks with her briefly. She seems sad and has little appetite for food and reduced interest in her usual activities. She says she has a much diminished desire to visit with friends, though she is normally very social.she says that she really answered the telephone as she does not really want to talk to anyone. The most probably diagnosis is.

Answer 9

unknown and unethical

Question 10

I mental health agency that seeks to match clients with workers according to ethnic identity and language proficiency is demonstrating

Answer 10

Cultural sensitivity

Question 11

splitting is defined as

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Dividing people into categories of all good or all bad. Abrupt changes in definition are made.

Question 12

which statement is true about a contract between a client and the social worker?

Answer 12

It is a mutual agreement on goals, limits, and expectations that may change over time

Question 13

discussion about case termination, our first raised

Answer 13

When developing a case plan with a client

Question 14

The hospital social worker received definitive information that associate work colleague is engaged in a sexual relationship with a client. in deciding on a course of action, social worker must first consider

Answer 14

The social work code of ethics

Question 15

according to DSM 5 conduct disorders usually manifest themselves

Answer 15

Between the ages of 6 and 16

Question 16

A 16 year old adolescent girl engages in bench, eating several times a week. following each episode, she self induced vomit to avoid weight. She claims that she has no control over eating, and that behavior has been occurring for the past year. The most likely diagnosis is.

Answer 16

Bulimia nervosa

Question 17

Child development research suggest that ability such as comparison and speech development, early childhood most directly with

Answer 17

Parent or caretaker communication with the child

Question 18

A hospital social worker runs groups, whose purpose is to help cancer patients and their families understand the disease. The groups provides information about the expected physical and emotional consequences of treatment. These groups can best be described as.

Answer 18

Psychoeducational groups

Question 19

in assessing risk factors of child abuse, associate worker would consider as most important

Answer 19

Parents attitude towards discipline, familyhistory, child’s injuries

Question 20

A client who is unable to tolerate frustration and has a tendency to discharge tension is said to

Answer 20

Act out

Question 21

In establishing a professional relationship, as social worker must convey

Answer 21

Positive acceptance

Question 22

A newly established activity group of 11-year-old boys displayed behaviors that are noisy, disruptive and uncooperative at their third and fourth meetings. The social worker thinks this is a reflection of this stage of group development. We might assume that the group is demonstrating behavior characteristics of what stage of group development?

Answer 22

Power and control

Question 23

Food stamps, Medicaid and public housing are examples of

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In kind assistance

Question 24

A social worker in a child mental health agency, who is told by a 10-year-old client that she has been sexually abused by a relative should

Answer 24

Make an official child abuse report

Question 25

select a federal program, administered and funded totally by the federal government with no state or local participation by either government or nonprofit organizations.

Answer 25

social security old age, and survivors insurance

Question 26

Case advocacy is generally associated with

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Case management

Question 27

What is the treatment usually recommended for habitual sexual offenders who seek young children?

Answer 27

Long-term treatment groups

Question 28

A client is upset and disappointed, and not being called back after a job interview and he vented his anger at the job interviewer. As therapy session, the social workers, best response is.

Answer 28

I guess you are hurt and angry about not getting the job

Question 29

Which of the following questions is not evidence of discrimination in a job interview or job application process?

Answer 29

List your last three jobs

Question 30

characteristics of fetal alcohol syndrome are

Answer 30

Intellectual disabilities, slow over reduced growth, and abnormalities in the shape and size of the head

Question 31

A group of clients in a mental health agency group is encouraged by the group leader to socialize, even when not participating in a regular group session. The group is probably.

Answer 31

A supportive group

Question 32

A patient with chronic depression is released from inpatient care and is in treatment at a community mental health program. The patient is stabilized and participates in group treatment. In deciding on a treatment plan, what type of group is the social worker likely to recommend

Answer 32

A supportive group

Question 33

Dsm 5 removes all references of

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All axis references

Question 34

The optimal size group for therapy group is generally thought to be

Answer 34

8-10

Question 35

A client stubbornly believes that his life has been disrupted by men who follow him in a black van. He claims they have put something bitter in his coffee, caused his milk to turn sour in the refrigerator, tampered with his checking account, erase the fouls on his computer, and caused his car battery to fail. He is unable to point to any concrete evidence to support his beliefs. The client is probably struggling with.

Answer 35

Delusion

Question 36

The type of group, in which which members typically provide emotional support, and the opportunity to share with, and gain from others coping with similar problems is most appropriately called

Answer 36

A self-help group

Question 37

The habitual ingestion of non-nutritive substances, such as clay, soy or leaves, is common when there is a parallel diagnosis

Answer 37

Intellectual disability

Question 38

The category in which pathological behavior is most likely to be ego-Syntonic is.

Answer 38

The personality disorder