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The individual's capacity for logical thinking, intelligence, perceptiveness, and self-control over impulses to achieve immediate gratification. a. Ego Dystonic b. Ego Strengths c. Ego Syntonic d. Empathy - correct answer ✅b. Ego Strengths The premise and understanding between therapist and client that the information revealed by the client will not be divulged to others without expressed permission; Courts often honor this unless there is a risk of public danger or threat to the public good. a. Prejudice b. Privilege c. Projection
d. Punishment - correct answer ✅b. Privilege A technique in which the social worker clarifies and shows the client what his or her feelings are in the moment and encourages further expression and understanding of those feelings (often through paraphrasing) a. Punishment b. Reflective Listening c. Reinforcement d. Scapegoating - correct answer ✅b. Reflective Listening A problem-solving process in which advice and other helping activity is offered to an individual, group, organization, or community that is faced with a problem. a. Advocacy
a. Countertransference b. Transference c. Privilege d. Supervision - correct answer ✅a. Countertransference A medication-induced movement disorder that includes uncontrollable physical movements, especially in the face, lips, and tongue, and sometimes repetitive movements of the head, hands, and feet. a. Supervision b. Tardive Dyskinesia c. Transference d. Triangulation - correct answer ✅b. Tardive Dyskinesia The behaviors and personality characteristics that are
attached to people because of their sex, often inaccurately. a. Extinction b. Gender Roles c. Tardive Dyskinesia d. Triangulation - correct answer ✅d. Gender Roles In behavior modification, the strengthening of a response through the removal of adverse stimuli. a. Positive Reinforcement b. Negative Reinforcement c. Punishment d. Reinforcement - correct answer ✅b. Negative Reinforcement The act of perceiving, understanding, experiencing, and responding to the emotional state and ideas of
This is a basic obligation of the social work profession. Advocacy Consultation Empowerment Privilege - correct answer ✅Advocacy In behavior modification, the elimination or weakening of a conditioned response by discontinuing the reinforcement after the response occurs. Empowerment Enmeshment Extinction Gender Roles - correct answer ✅Extinction A concept that refers to emotional reactions that are
assigned to current relationships but originated in earlier experiences (often the feelings a client has toward a therapist). Countertransference Transference Privilege Supervision - correct answer ✅Transference In behavior modification, a procedure that strengthens the tendency of a response to recur. Positive Reinforcement Negative Reinforcement Punishment Reinforcement - correct answer ✅Reinforcement The granting of permission by the client to the
Reinforcement - correct answer ✅Punishment A defense mechanism in which unacceptable aspects of one's own personality are rejected or attributed to another person or entity. Prejudice Privilege Projection Punishment - correct answer ✅Projection Strengthening a desired behavior or response by presenting a desired stimulus contingent on performance of the response. Positive Reinforcement Negative Reinforcement Punishment
Reinforcement - correct answer ✅Positive Reinforcement A phenomenon in groups in which members settle on a particular person to target or blame, though that person is often innocent; prevents true group cohesion and distracts from the actual group purpose. Scapegoating Countertransference Transference Triangulation - correct answer ✅Scapegoating An administrative and educational process used to help someone further develop and refine their skills, enhance staff morale, and provide quality assurance for clients. Advocacy
Ego Dystonic Ego Strengths Ego Syntonic Empathy - correct answer ✅Ego Dystonic The process in which one individual who feels pressured, distressed, or powerless in relating to another individual brings into the relationship a third person to act as an ally or a distractor. Supervision Tardive Dyskinesia Transference Triangulation - correct answer ✅Triangulation A relationship pattern in which role boundaries between individuals are so vague or diffuse that there is little opportunity for independent functioning.
Empowerment Enmeshment Extinction Gender Roles - correct answer ✅Enmeshment A hospital emergency room social worker meets with a 45-year-old man who recently immigrated from Mexico and has been experiencing severe panic attacks and anxiety. When the social worker approaches him, he says that he does not need any mental health treatment and that she can leave. The MOST likely explanation for his behavior is: A. His preference for seeking treatment from a curandero. B. His denial that he has a mental health problem. C. The negative cultural response associated with mental health treatment.
C. Operant conditioning D. Classical conditioning - correct answer ✅D. Classical conditioning Rationale: This is a recall question: the stem describes an example of classical conditioning in which the client develops a conditioned response (crying and clinging to mom) when exposed to stimuli (loud noises) that represent a previously experienced event (the earthquake). A, B, and C would all be described differently. A young adult client has been meeting with a social worker due to a diagnosis of major depression. When discussing his childhood, the client reports that he was often bullied and humiliated by peers at school. The client reports this with a flat affect and a sense of detachment. The social worker should respond by: A. Sharing a personal experience of being teased as a child. B. Assist the client in developing awareness around his feeling related to being bullied.
C. Confront the client's denial. D. Provide the client with psychoeducation on the relationship between bullying and depression. - correct answer ✅B. Assist the client in developing awareness around his feeling related to being bullied. Rationale: B is the best answer because awareness is the first step in helping the client integrate and process his feelings. A is inappropriate; C is inappropriate and may cause the client harm. D is less therapeutic than B and may not be helpful for the client. A client who is diagnosed with trichotillomania meets with a social worker after being referred by her primary care physician. The client says she feels guilty and ashamed, but is having difficulty stopping the behavior. She says that she doesn't even know why she started the behavior in the first place. What should the social worker do FIRST? A. Explore the feelings behind the behavior. B. Have the client wear a wig until she can stop the behavior.
B. The impact of losing status in the community. C. Other symptoms that might indicate depression. D. Volunteer opportunities that might help the client feel useful again. - correct answer ✅C. Other symptoms that might indicate depression. Rationale: C is the best answer because the client has indicated several symptoms of depression and the therapist should start by asking more about symptoms in this category. A, B, and D would likely all be part of the assessment and intervention plan, but only after a provisional diagnosis has been reached. A social worker in private practice meets with a 90-year-old man who recently lost his wife of 60 years. The client reports that since his wife passed away, he has being feeling irritated, does not have much energy, and has trouble falling asleep. A hospital social worker met with the client and conducted a clinical evaluation for depression. What should the social worker do FIRST?
A. Demonstrate acceptance of the client's feelings of loss. B. Provide psychoeducation about depression. C. Complete a mental status examination. D. Contact the hospital social worker for additional information. - correct answer ✅A. Demonstrate acceptance of the client's feelings of loss. Rationale: A is the best answer because the client has experienced a significant loss and acknowledging and accepting his feelings is an effective way to help him feel more comfortable and encourage him to discuss his feelings and symptoms. B, C and D might all be useful interventions, but not before the social worker has acknowledged the client's feelings of loss regarding his wife. A couple meets with a social worker. The woman reports that her 80-year-old father has been living with them since her mother passed away four years ago. The woman reports that her father has recently been refusing to eat meals with the couple, appears agitated, and is concerned that he may be depressed. The woman