Masters Flashcards
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A social work supervisor notices a supervisee is consistently late submitting documentation and appears distracted in sessions. The supervisor's FIRST action should be to:
Answer: Schedule a private meeting to explore factors contributing to the performance issues
Supervisors should first meet privately to understand underlying causes of performance problems before escalating to formal disciplinary action.
The NASW Code of Ethics states that social workers' PRIMARY ethical obligation is to:
Answer: Clients
The NASW Code of Ethics identifies clients as the primary obligation of social workers, though other obligations to colleagues, employers, and society also exist.
A social worker is meeting with a family experiencing food insecurity. Which intervention reflects a strengths-based perspective?
Answer: Identifying and building on the family's existing coping strategies and resources
A strengths-based perspective focuses on identifying and amplifying existing competencies and resources rather than cataloging deficits.
A social worker practicing from a trauma-informed care framework would MOST likely ask which of the following questions during an initial assessment?
Answer: 'What happened to you, and how has it affected your life?'
Trauma-informed care reframes assessment from 'What is wrong with you?' to 'What happened to you?', recognizing trauma as a root cause of many presenting problems.
During termination of a long-term therapeutic relationship, a client gives the social worker an expensive gift. The MOST appropriate response is to:
Answer: Decline the gift and explore its meaning with the client therapeutically
Social workers should decline gifts that could compromise objectivity and use the opportunity to explore the gift's meaning as clinically meaningful material.
Which of the following best describes 'informed consent' in social work practice?
Answer: Providing clients with sufficient information about services, risks, and alternatives so they can make voluntary, knowledgeable decisions
Informed consent requires that clients receive complete information about services, voluntarily agree without coercion, and have the capacity to make decisions.
A social worker is engaging in advocacy on behalf of a client whose housing benefits were wrongfully terminated. This activity MOST closely reflects which social work value?
Answer: Social justice
Advocacy to correct wrongful denial of housing benefits reflects the social work value of social justice, which involves challenging injustice and pursuing equitable access to resources.