Question: A hospital social worker has been assigned to work with a 72-year-old man who is
requesting release from the hospital. The patient tells the social worker his family wants
him to stay in the hospital, despite his desire to leave. What should the social worker do
FIRST?
Question: In a session with a woman suffering from depression, the client recounts, in great detail, a
dream she had in which she bought a gun and took her life. She tells the social worker
specifically how she plans to carry out the dream. The social worker should
Question: An example of the defense mechanism “undoing” is:
Question: Ethnographic interviewing is one of the ways in which a social worker can ascertain the
__ of a client’s cultural experience
Question: A 5-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy are found by the boy’s mother in the garage with
their pants down. They do not appear to be engaging in sexual activity. The mother calls
her social worker for advice. The BEST way for the social worker to respond to the mother
is to
Question: A family comes to see a social worker in a child welfare agency to discuss family problems.
The father discusses how he was sexually abused by his father. The following is the most
likely situation in this family
Question: An important factor to be considered when assessing risk for child maltreatment is
Question: A counselor at a local high school contacts a social worker in the child welfare protection
agency and describes the situation of a 14-year-old girl reporting sexual abuse by her
father. The social worker’s FIRST step should be to:
A college student has made an appointment to speak with a counselor at her
university’s counseling center about troublesome symptoms she has experienced on a
number of occasions over the last six months. The symptoms include chest pain, nausea,
pounding heart, and dizziness. A recent medical exam failed to identify any physical
problems. Which of the following DSM-5 diagnoses is this student MOST LIKELY suffering from?
Question: Jonathan is a 25-year-old married male whose wife told him he had to go to counseling
or his “marriage was over”. Jonathan thinks that his wife is “over-reacting”. Jonathan
likes to play a couple of popular video games. He plays after work for a “few hours after
dinner”. According to his wife, Jonathan spends at least 6-7 hours a night and doesn’t get
into bed until 2-3 a.m. Jonathan ‘has to play daily’ in order to stay competitive. He gets
frustrated when he cannot go online. His wife reports Jonathan is “totally preoccupied”
with these games and talks of nothing else. Jonathan says his wife nags him so much that he
is only happy these days when he is playing on the internet. Jonathan’s behavior is
indicative of the following: