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Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) Exam Practice Test
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The Master’s Level exam is intended for social workers who have completed their MSW degree but may not yet have post-degree supervision or experience. The test covers material that will hopefully be familiar to you from your MSW graduate program.    The Association of Social Work Boards Master’s Level exam contains 170 multiple-choice questions. However, as 20 of these questions are experimental, unscored questions being evaluated for future exams, only 150 of the questions will count toward your score. Since the 20 experimental questions are randomly mixed into the exam, you will not know... Show more
Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) Exam Practice Test
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1. Harm reduction is BEST defined as:
2. A client reports having committed a violent crime against another adult for which he was not prosecuted. He then asks the social worker, 'You’re not going to turn me in, are you?' The social worker should FIRST:
3. In accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, social workers have an obligation to:
4. According to Mary Richmond’s concept of a 'social diagnosis':
5. A social worker in private practice is working with a client who suddenly lost his insurance and cannot pay for services. The client is a Reiki healer and suggests he provide Reiki services to the therapist in exchange for therapy sessions. The social worker should:
6. With regard to continuing education, which of the following is correct?
7. The work of John Bowlby is associated with:
8. Person-in-environment theory is BEST defined as:
9. A 25-year-old client is referred to a social worker by his primary care physician. The client reports feeling tired, having a lack of appetite, feeling sad every day, and crying often. He states that these symptoms have lasted for the past three weeks. What is the client’s MOST likely DSM-5 diagnosis?
10. A social worker assists a group of activists to plan a community town hall on the topic of climate change in order to mobilize support for local legislation that would implement policies to help the city prepare for natural disasters and other environmental impacts of climate change. The social worker is most likely to use which of the following theories or models in this work?
11. Transference is different from countertransference in that:
12. In dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness skills are used to:
13. A client is court mandated to therapy following a recent incident of violence. The social worker teaches the client skills for relaxation such as deep breathing, as well as how to put situations into a larger perspective and how to walk away from situations that are likely to get him upset. The social worker is most likely using techniques of:
14. In order to maintain the confidentiality of client information, social workers should do which of the following:
15. A family meets with a social worker for therapy. They state that their son frequently gets into arguments with them and does not do as he is told. They ask the social worker to 'fix' their son so that he can better get along with family members. Other family members do not identify any problems with their own behavior or with family dynamics. The family’s identification of the son as the patient for the social worker to 'fix' is mostly a result of which process?
16. You are a social work supervisor in an agency. One of your supervisees reports feeling frustrated by her clients’ lack of progress. She states that she feels ineffective and does not know if she can continue doing this work. The supervisee is most likely experiencing:
17. A client discloses that he is feeling attracted toward his social worker. The social worker should:
18. A social worker is meeting with a client who was referred for a dialectical behavior therapy skills group. The client reports that no one in her family seems to listen or care about her except when she is suicidal. When the client makes suicidal gestures, her family rallies around her and mobilizes to take care of her. Based on the principles of operant conditioning, the client’s behavior has most likely continued as a result of:
19. Parents of a 12-month old infant express concern that their child is not speaking enough. The infant is saying 'mama' and 'dada,' but has not used any other words. In order to best assist this family, the social worker should:
20. Types of advocacy include all of the following EXCEPT:
21. Active listening involves all of the following EXCEPT:
22. A mental status examination includes all of the following components EXCEPT:
23. Which of the following is NOT a component of psychodynamic theory?
24. A hospital social worker is placed on a unit for patients with COVID-19. After several weeks of working on this unit, the social worker reports feeling increased irritability, being easily startled, and having nightmares about death and dying. The social worker is most likely experiencing:
25. Adult children caring for aging parents are most likely to experience:

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