LMSW LMSW Community-Level Practice Questions and Answers 4

Question 1

A social worker discovers that a city's lead abatement program disproportionately serves wealthier neighborhoods despite equal need citywide. This is an example of:

Accepted Answer

Distributional injustice

Answer

Distributional injustice refers to unequal allocation of resources or harms across populations, in this case disadvantaging lower-income residents with equal levels of need.

Question 2

In Saul Alinsky's model of community organizing, power is BEST understood as:

Accepted Answer

The organized capacity of people acting collectively

Answer

Alinsky defined power as organized people and organized money acting together, emphasizing collective action over individual credentials or formal authority.

Question 3

Which intervention strategy is MOST consistent with a harm reduction philosophy at the community level?

Accepted Answer

Needle exchange programs combined with non-coercive counseling referrals

Answer

Harm reduction meets people where they are, reducing immediate risks (like needle sharing) without requiring abstinence as a precondition for services.

Question 4

A social worker is evaluating a community-based violence interruption program. Which outcome measure MOST directly assesses the program's community-level impact?

Accepted Answer

Rate of violent incidents in the target neighborhood over time

Answer

A neighborhood-level incident rate is the most direct measure of whether the program is achieving its community-level goal of reducing violence.

Question 5

The Precede-Proceed model is used in community health planning primarily to:

Accepted Answer

Diagnose social and epidemiological factors before designing interventions and then evaluate outcomes after implementation

Answer

Precede-Proceed systematically diagnoses social, epidemiological, behavioral, and organizational factors (Precede) to inform program design, then tracks implementation and outcomes (Proceed).

LMSW - Licensed Master Social Worker Practice Test

LMSW - Licensed Master Social Worker Practice Test

LMSW LMSW Community-Level Practice Questions and Answers 4