Mock exam

Question 1

When a client’s responses lack logical sequence. They often do not relate to the interviewer’s questions, or one paragraph, sentence, or phrase is not logically connected to those that occur before or after.

Answer 1

Looseness of association

Question 2

A disorder in which people temporarily lose their sense of personal identity and impulsively wander/travel away from their homes, places of work, etc.

Answer 2

Dissociative fugue

Question 3

In the psychosocial model, this techniques is central to the casework process?
- just anything we do to facilitate the relationship between the social worker and the client. Examples: eye contact, reflective listening, validating, unconditional positive regard, etc.

Answer 3

Sustaining procedures

Question 4

Taking the client’s statement and seeing it in a different context

Answer 4

Reframing

Question 5

What would help reach the greatest amount of at-risk youth?

Answer 5

Creating a prevention program for a specific population

Question 6

A disciplined and thoughtful dialogue between two or more people; It is used to expose and unravel deeply-held values and beliefs that frame and support what we think and say.

Answer 6

Socratic questioning

Question 7

A state in which a person’s ideal self and actual experience are consistent or very similar

Answer 7

Congruence

Question 8

If we are doing therapy that involves the survivor and the perpetrator of abuse, what is the MOST important thing for positive change to occur?

Answer 8

the perpetrator must accept full responsibility

Question 9

Problem Solving Process

Answer 9

1. Engage the client and develop rapport.
2. Collect information
3. Assess the client’s needs
4. Set goals/create a plan for treatment.
5. Evaluate the progress
6. Terminate

Question 10

The FIRST task of a multidisciplinary team is to:

Answer 10

Define objective

Question 11

When a minority client shows hostility/anxious working with a caucasian therapist, what do you do?

Answer 11

Validate client’s concern

Question 12

A client becomes silent for long periods of time and seems to have nothing to say. What is this behavior?

Answer 12

Resistance

Question 13

In evaluating the effectiveness of a program, the evaluator needs to assess ?

Answer 13

If the target population is being reached.

Question 14

This gives a visual representation of the various systems in a client’s life.

Answer 14

Ecomap

Question 15

What is the most culturally influenced area (assessor’s bias) in Mental State Exam?

Answer 15

Affect

Question 16

Main stages of group treatment

Answer 16

1. Forming (Preaffiliation)
2. Storming (Power and Control)
3. Norming (Intimacy)
4. Performing (Differentiation)
5. Adjourning (Separation).

Question 17

The FIRST step in completing the policy analysis is to?

Answer 17

Examine the issues that led to the policy implementation.

Question 18

Delirium Tremens (DTs) are a sign of ?

Answer 18

alcohol withdrawal

Question 19

Akathisia (A feeling of muscle quivering, restlessness, and inability to sit still ) is usually a side effect of ? drugs.

Answer 19

antipsychotic.

Question 20

DX for Deliberate and purposeful fire setting

Answer 20

Pyromania

Question 21

The essential feature of Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Answer 21

Angry/irritable mood
Argumentative/defiant behavior
Vindictiveness

Question 22

Symptoms groups (4) of Conduct Disorder

Answer 22

Aggression to people and animals
Destruction of property
Deceitfulness or Theft
Serious violations of rules

Question 23

Racial identity development:

what is a term for a period in which the individual moves from feeling shame about their identity to feelings of pride?

Answer 23

Dissonance

Question 24

In terms of racial identity development, what is the term when the individual prefers the dominant culture and devalues their own background.

Answer 24

Conformity

Question 25

Racial identity development:

the individual rejects the dominant culture and has a sense of appreciation for their own culture

Answer 25

Resistance

Question 26

Racial identity development::

the individual moves toward feeling that the dominant culture is not all bad and that there are individual differences.

Answer 26

Introversion

Question 27

”?” evaluation determines whether program activities have been implemented as intended and resulted in certain outputs

Answer 27

process

Question 28

”?” supervision decreases job stress that interferes with work performance and provides the supervisee with nurturing conditions that compliment their success and encourage self-efficacy.

Answer 28

Supportive

Question 29

”?” Therapy is a short term therapy that helps clients identify and replace self-defeating rigid thought patterns, beliefs, and unhealthy behaviors that interfere with their life goals with healthier thoughts and behaviors that help them achieve their goals.

Answer 29

Rational Emotive Behavior

Question 30

When a clinical supervisor interacts with their supervisee in a way that models for the supervisee how they should interact with their clients, this can be referred to as?

Answer 30

Parallel Process

Question 31

What is the best way to orient newly hired SW to the workplace?

Answer 31

Helping new staff understand the overall goals and mission of the agency

Question 32

”?” evaluations (also known as “?’” evaluations) determine the overall effectiveness of a program and occur at the end of a program.

Answer 32

Summative / outcome

Question 33

Defense mechanism:

An individual with poor family lives may direct their energy into excelling above and beyond what is required at work

Answer 33

Compensation

Question 34

What is “Neuroleptic” medication for?

Answer 34

Psychosis

Question 35

The most accurate information regarding eating disorder is given by ?

Answer 35

self-report

Question 36

When asked for a summary of treatment, what do I need to send?

Answer 36

a selected portion of record

Question 37

If a client showed up intoxicated to a session, what do i do?

Answer 37

Reschedule the session and assist him in finding a safe way home.

Question 38

If a supervisor made a sexual advance to supervisee, what should supervisee do first?

Answer 38

Report to HR

Question 39

Written records of client interactions for educational and learning purposes that do not go into the client’s official record are called ?

Answer 39

Process recordings

Question 40

When a client with previous failed attempts of therapy comes, what is First thing to do?

Answer 40

Identify barriers to success in previous attempts

Question 41

When you can’t locate a client when needing to terminate suddenly, what do I do?

Answer 41

Send a letter and give referrals

Question 42

The factor that carries the MOST weight in the assessment of abuse is?

Answer 42

A previous substantiated abuse

Question 43

When the client is underage, social worker must first discuss ? before anything else to establish therapeutic relationship.

Answer 43

confidentiality limitation