MSW Clinical Intervention Strategies 3

Question 1

A social worker is treating a client with Major Depressive Disorder using Behavioral Activation. What is the core premise of this intervention?

Accepted Answer

Increasing engagement in rewarding activities disrupts the depression cycle

Answer

Behavioral Activation holds that increasing contact with positive reinforcement through scheduled activities breaks the withdrawal-depression feedback loop.

Question 2

In Narrative Therapy, a clinician helps a client rewrite their dominant problem-saturated story by identifying times it did not apply. These are called:

Accepted Answer

Unique outcomes

Answer

Unique outcomes (or exceptions) are moments that contradict the problem story and become the foundation for constructing an alternative narrative.

Question 3

A client describes feeling detached from their body after a car accident. This experience is most consistent with which trauma response?

Accepted Answer

Dissociation

Answer

Dissociation involves a disconnection from one's thoughts, feelings, or sense of body, and is a common response to overwhelming traumatic events.

Question 4

Which crisis intervention model emphasizes assessing lethality, providing support, and restoring functioning within a brief, time-limited framework?

Accepted Answer

Roberts' Seven-Stage Crisis Intervention Model

Answer

Roberts' Seven-Stage Model provides a structured approach to crisis intervention from rapport-building through follow-up planning.

Question 5

A social worker observes that a client consistently deflects emotional questions with humor. In psychodynamic terms, this is best described as:

Accepted Answer

Resistance

Answer

Resistance refers to behaviors that block therapeutic progress, often unconsciously protecting the client from anxiety-provoking material.

MSW - Master of Social Work Practice Test

MSW - Master of Social Work Practice Test

MSW Clinical Intervention Strategies 3