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The Association of Social Work Boards Masters Exam, formerly known as the ASWB Intermediate exam, is a licensure examination designed by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB). The ASWB exams measure skills and knowledge in social work-specific content areas, such as human development and behavior, social and economic justice, and intervention processes.  Each ASWB exam consists of 170 multiple choice questions, including 150 scored questions and 20 questions used for data collection regarding the effectiveness of the exam. The 10 sections of the ASWB Masters Exam include: Human... Show more
ASWB Masters Exam Practice Test
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1. In social work communication, a term that refers to restatements of a client’s message in one’s own words is known as:
2. In conducting social work research, the concept of informed consent refers to:
3. A husband finds his wife is drinking too much. She often apologizes and indicates she’d like to get help, though she refuses to call and make an appointment. Eventually he calls for her, and sets up an appointment with you. In exploring her drinking, you learn that he does most of the shopping for groceries, and for the alcoholic beverages brought into the home. He reveals that he purchases the alcohol to keep peace, and because he knows she would suffer with symptoms of delirium tremens if she was left without any access to alcohol. Worried for the children, he would at times call into work claiming to be sick when he knew she was having a particularly bad drinking binge. His behavior is BEST described as:
4. The most common cause of major neurocognitive disorder is:
5. In a county psychiatric emergency clinic, you are asked to evaluate a 19-year-old woman for unspecified psychotic behavior. She is accompanied by her parents, who brought her to the clinic. Upon contact you note she is disheveled and unkempt in grooming and hygiene. In talking with you she often pauses inexplicably, rambles about something unrelated, laughs to herself, and then turns her face away. Episodically attending to you, she spontaneously claims that you are controlling her mind, and indicates that she sees odd objects floating around you. There is no recent history of substance abuse (though remotely positive for amphetamines), and her symptoms have been prominent for most of the past year, though particularly acute this evening when she attacked her mother claiming that she was a clone and trying to pull her “real mom” out of the clone’s body. The most likely diagnosis for this presentation is:
6. The term introjection is used differently between psychoanalysis and Gestalt therapy. Specifically, in Gestalt therapy the term refers to:
7. A man comes in to see you about a compulsion that is troubling him. Whenever someone brings up something very serious (a family death, grave illness, loss of a crucial job, or other major misfortune) he finds himself compelled to resort to humor to minimize the intense feelings involved. This has offended many people. During exploration of the problem, it is learned that his father was violently intolerant of any expression or display of negative emotion. Drawing upon Pavlovian theory, the client’s compulsion can best be described as a/an:
8. Failure of an infant to crawl by the following age would be cause for concern:
9. The difference between the nurturing system and the sustaining system is:
10. Social work Case Management is BEST defined as follows:
11. A crisis is an event that threatens or upends a state of equilibrium in ways that breach the coping capacity of the participants involved—usually a threat or obstacle to important relationships or goals. All of the following are major types of crises that may need to be addressed EXCEPT:
12. A social worker at a community counseling agency receives a subpoena to testify in court about one of her clients. The information outlined in the subpoena includes information that could easily be psychologically damaging to her client. The BEST response to this subpoena would be to:
13. An 8-year-old boy presents with a number of complex developmental deficits. In particular, the child seems to isolate himself as evidenced by an apparent disinterest (or perhaps inability) in communicating with others, an idiosyncratic use of words and language, little imaginative play or social imitation, poor peer relationships, limited responses to others in his presence even if engaged, and odd, repetitive motions, routines, and rituals. The most likely tentative diagnosis would be:
14. Parents bring in their 14-year-old son, concerned about his persistent rebellious, disobedient, and argumentative behavior. The problem has been getting progressively worse over the past year, and they feel it is just not tolerable any longer. They note that he is continuing to do well in school and with friends, but he is constantly angry, argumentative, and overly touchy, and he refuses to behave; he ignores family rules and refuses to perform basic household chores or to clean up his own room, etc. There is no evidence of drug use, nor does he appear to be a victim of bullying or other abuse in or out of the home. The most appropriate initial DSM diagnosis in this situation is:
15. A 32-year-old male veteran has come to see you over troubling dreams that have persisted long after his return to the United States. The dreams involve reliving combat experiences in which he sees the deaths of important colleagues. Together, you work to relieve and psychologically reconcile these events, allowing the client to discharge the pent-up emotions associated with them. This psychotherapeutic approach is known as:
16. A couple in their 40s have come in to manage conflict issues in their marriage and family. In particular, neither can agree on basic roles as a couple. Both work outside the home; both tend to retain their income independently; each feels the other should be paying a greater portion of the bills; neither wants to be responsible for cooking, shopping, or housecleaning. According to Salvador Minuchin’s Structural Family Theory, the couple is struggling with:
17. In working with a client, you discover him to be manipulative, confrontational, at times deceptive, and otherwise very difficult to work with. Over time you find it increasingly difficult to work with him, and find yourself struggling to contain anger and even expressions of contempt. Concerned that you may not be able to maintain therapeutic clarity and requisite positive regard to support the change process, your FIRST step should be to:
18. A 46-year-old woman is referred for treatment for nicotine and alcohol addiction. She is also some 150 pounds overweight. The client claims to “like smoking” with no desire to quit, denies the extent of her alcoholism, and suggests that she doesn’t “really eat very much.” From a Freudian perspective, the client may have a fixation in the following stage of Freud’s five stages of psychosexual development:
19. All of the following communication styles are dysfunctional EXCEPT:
20. The acronym BIRP refers to a record charting method and stands for:
21. A community member approaches a social worker/community organizer and reveals that a Latino factory owner has been hiring illegal immigrants and then denying them basic breaks and overtime benefits while threatening them with reporting and deportation. In seeking change, the FIRST step the citizen is encouraged to take is as a:
22. As a hospital social worker, you are assigned to work with families in an intensive care unit. A husband was recently told that his wife is terminally ill. In speaking with him, you attempt to discuss his feelings about the impending loss of his wife and how he and his family are coping. However, you find the conversation persistently returning to recent medical tests, current physical indicators, and potential changes in her medications. This is an example of the following defense mechanism:
23. In Communications/Experimental Therapy, the idea that the same results can be secured in different ways is referred to as:
24. In situations of long-term case management, clients should be encouraged to openly share their emotions and feelings. All of the following are benefits to this sharing EXCEPT:
25. A social worker receives a subpoena ordering him to testify in court and to reveal his case notes about his client. The social worker refuses, and bases his right to refuse upon the state’s statutes regarding:

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