Masters Basic Flashcards
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A social worker practicing from a strengths-based perspective would MOST likely begin an initial assessment by asking:
Answer: What has worked for you in the past when facing similar challenges?
Strengths-based practice begins by identifying existing capacities, resilience, and past successes rather than focusing on deficits or pathology.
A social worker receives a subpoena for client records related to a custody dispute. The MOST appropriate immediate action is to:
Answer: Consult legal counsel and notify the client before releasing any records
A subpoena requires legal consultation and client notification; it is not automatically equivalent to a court order mandating immediate release.
A client describes feeling that she is watching herself from outside her body during stressful situations. This experience BEST describes:
Answer: Dissociation/depersonalization
Depersonalization involves feeling detached from one's own body or mental processes, as if observing oneself from outside.
Which of the following BEST describes the primary role of the social worker in a case management model of service delivery?
Answer: Coordinating and linking clients to needed community resources and services
Case management centers on coordinating service delivery across systems and linking clients to appropriate resources to address multifaceted needs.
A social worker is working with a family where the eldest daughter consistently mediates all parental conflicts and takes care of younger siblings. This role is BEST described as:
Answer: Parentified child
A parentified child takes on adult responsibilities within the family, sacrificing their own developmental needs to meet parental or sibling needs.
In cognitive-behavioral therapy, which technique involves a client tracking the automatic thoughts, emotions, and situations associated with distressing events?
Answer: Thought record (dysfunctional thought record)
Thought records are CBT tools that help clients identify and evaluate automatic thoughts, their emotional impact, and the situations that trigger them.
A newly licensed social worker feels pressured by her supervisor to use a treatment approach she believes is not evidence-based for a client's condition. She should FIRST:
Answer: Raise her concern professionally with the supervisor and discuss the evidence base
Professional disagreements should first be addressed directly with the supervisor in a respectful, evidence-informed dialogue before escalating.