LMSW Intervention and Treatment Planning 4

Question 1

A social worker notices that a client from a collectivist cultural background seems uncomfortable with a treatment plan emphasizing individual goals. The best response is to:

Accepted Answer

Modify the treatment plan to incorporate family and community goals aligned with the client's cultural values

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Explain that individual goals are clinically required and proceed as planned

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Refer the client to a culturally specific provider

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Educate the client about the benefits of individualistic goal-setting

Question 2

A child client's treatment plan includes parent training as a component. This is best classified as which type of intervention?

Accepted Answer

Collateral intervention and environmental modification

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Individual psychotherapy

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Group therapy

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Case management only

Question 3

When using Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), the 'miracle question' is used primarily to:

Accepted Answer

Help the client envision and articulate a future without the problem

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Assess the severity of psychopathology

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Challenge cognitive distortions

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Explore the historical roots of the presenting problem

Question 4

A social worker is treating a client with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The most evidence-based treatment approach is:

Accepted Answer

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

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Psychoanalytic free association to uncover unconscious conflicts

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Supportive counseling and validation only

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Hypnotherapy

Question 5

A social worker writes a treatment objective: 'Client will use diaphragmatic breathing when experiencing anxiety three times per week, as reported in session, within 60 days.' This objective is best described as:

Accepted Answer

Specific, measurable, and time-bound

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Vague and unmeasurable

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Unrealistic and too demanding

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Lacking a baseline measure

Question 6

A client discloses that she has been secretly stopping her antidepressant medication. The social worker's first priority should be to:

Accepted Answer

Explore the client's reasons for stopping and assess safety before taking any action

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Report this to her prescriber immediately without discussing it with the client first

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Document the disclosure and address it at the next session

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Terminate treatment due to non-adherence

Question 7

In interpersonal therapy (IPT) for depression, which of the following is identified as one of the four core problem areas?

Accepted Answer

Role transitions

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Dysfunctional automatic thoughts

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Unresolved Oedipal conflict

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Existential meaninglessness