Deck 5: Social Work Practice With Individuals: Intervention, Termination, and Evaluation

Question 1

The assessment, intervention, and evaluation must all connect to one another.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Intervention is a component of the planned change process that takes place before:

A) Planning
B) Engagement
C) Assessment
D) Termination

Answer 2

D

Question 3

An element of the strengths-based approach includes all of the following EXCEPT:

A) Listening for the client's inherent strengths
B) Working with the client to develop goals grounded in strengths
C) Developing an intervention that puts the client's strengths and resources into action
D) Encouraging the client to rely on the power of the social worker for support

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following approaches to intervention focuses on the social worker's ability to ask questions that deconstruct the client's view of the problem?

A) Strengths-based approach
B) Psychoanalytic approach
C) Narrative approach
D) Solution-focused approach

Question 5

A solution focused approach:

A) Is designed to help a client reach his/her/their goals in a brief and time-limited manner
B) Offers the client insight into his/her/their experiences through exploration of attachment relationships
C) Focuses on the way thoughts influence behaviors
D) Is generally not considered to be an effective strategy of care

Question 6

Which of the following is a primary component of a cognitive behavioral-focused intervention?

A) All of the client's learning happens within the formal client-social worker relationship
B) The client practices techniques outside of the client-social worker sessions as a way of learning new behaviors
C) The social worker asks targeted questions that facilitate a new perspective of the client's story
D) The social worker helps the client better understand the way primary attachment figures have contributed to the client's perceived social challenges

Question 7

Within the strengths perspective, a client's cultural background is usually an obstacle to making progress.

Question 8

Which of the following is an assumption that supports the development of cultural humility?

A) Multiple realities affect individual perspectives
B) Reality is socially constructed
C) Diverse worldviews are valuable
D) All of the statements are assumptions that support the development of cultural humility

Question 9

When a social worker is responding to the client with information, the situation can become problematic when the:

A) Client is aware of his/her/their freedom to accept or reject the information without ramifications to the professional client-social worker relationship
B) Information is confused with a directive that the client must follow
C) Evaluation protocol is based on quantification methodologies
D) Social worker gives information to the client in a way that encourages empowerment

Question 10

At the request of the police department, an emergency room social worker is interviewing a client about the details of a sexual assault that occurred three hours earlier. During the interview process, the client constantly asks questions about the social worker's training and says that she wants to be a social worker too. What should the emergency room social worker do at this point?

A) Help the client determine appropriate social work training programs
B) Make sure the medical staff have completed their tasks
C) Look for the unconscious needs
D) Refocus

Question 11

Social workers should use professional judgment to determine appropriate times to focus on care that is outside of the agreed upon and mutually developed intervention plan.

Question 12

Which of the following mapping tools can help a client determine if he/she/they broke an intergenerational family problem during the intervention phase?

A) Ecomap
B) Family tree
C) Ecogram
D) Genogram

Question 13

An ecomap is only helpful during the assessment process; after this, its clinical utility is gone.

Question 14

The social worker's roles of broker, mediator, case manager, advocate, and educator are mutually exclusive.

Question 15

Which of the following is a common component of case management?

A) Coordinating services
B) Providing counseling that reflects advancing training in family services
C) Establishing common ground between two disagreeing community partners
D) Amending legislation to meet client needs

Question 16

Providing suggestions, alternatives, and information that helps the client achieve his/her/their goals is the role of the case manager.

Question 17

The primary function of the social worker's role of broker is to:

A) Teach the client about the needed services to achieve their intended goal
B) Link clients to the services that provide what they need
C) Work to achieve the goals and objectives of a client
D) Combine clinical and case management strategies

Question 18

The primary function of the social worker's role of mediator is to:

A) Establish common ground between disputing parties
B) List the strengths of the client system that is limiting resolution
C) Prevent opposing social systems from achieving a desired goal or objective
D) Explain the outcome of treatment to all parties involved in the process

Question 19

Which term BEST describes advocacy in the area of social work practice with individuals?

A) Legislative advocacy
B) Class advocacy
C) Case advocacy
D) None of the above

Question 20

Social workers have a professional obligation to communicate effectively with other helping professionals in the workplace.

Question 21

Empowerment-focused practice is a new focus and postmodern focus of the social work profession.

Question 22

Empowerment is a concept that is applicable to which social work roles?

A) Case Manager and Broker
B) Educator, Legislator, Mediator, and Counselor
C) Collaborator, Case Manager, and Educator
D) All seven of the social work roles assume empowerment

Question 23

Which of the following is not one of the techniques that is commonly used in Motivational Interviewing sessions?

A) Exploring the client's valid perception of the problem.
B) Challenging client's statements about wanting to change.
C) Demonstrating optimism regarding the client's ability to change.
D) Starting where the client is.

Question 24

The termination phase is:

A) Not necessary for all client situations.
B) Only possible if a client agrees to the plan.
C) Is the ending of the professional client-social worker relationship.
D) Is the same for all clients.

Question 25

Evaluation is not widely regarded to be a valuable part of the social worker's professional development.

Question 26

Discuss the social work role of collaborator and describe the reasons it is important for each social work to develop skills in collaboration.

Question 27

Define and describe empowerment practice. Give an example a client-social worker relationship in which this approach helped the client achieve the goals of the intervention phase.

Question 28

Discuss at least two tasks involved in planning the ending of the professional relationship between the client and the social worker.

Question 29

Discuss what a case study is and give a detailed example of the way you could carry one out in practice.

Question 30

Evaluation is an important part of the social worker's professional development. Describe your anxieties or fears related to the process of evaluation and then identify at least one way of addressing or overcoming each fear or anxiety.

Question 31

The assessment, intervention, and evaluation are phases of care that are unrelated from one another and have separate tasks and goals.

Question 32

A broad principle for a strengths-based approach includes:

A) Employing SOAP for assessment
B) Identifying subconscious causes that provide strength
C) Listening for the client's inherent strengths
D) The notion that a single system design works best

Question 33

Regardless of the intervention strategy used, social workers use practice skills and behaviors that affirm client strengths and support clients' individual roles in the intervention.

Question 34

When a social worker is responding to the client with information, the situation can become problematic when:

A) The social worker is writing the information to the client
B) The social worker communicates expectations related to the information shared
C) The evaluation protocol is based on quantification methodologies
D) The client is the opposite sex from the social worker

Question 35

The primary function of the social worker's role of advocate is to:

A) Select the appropriate evaluation tool for assessing the outcome
B) View the client's situation in terms of the problems he/she faces
C) Explicate the various relevant social systems for the client
D) Secure the rights and well-being of vulnerable clients

Question 36

All of the following statements about intervention are accurate except:

A) It is connected to the assessment, termination, evaluation, and follow-up phases
B) It is guided by the social worker's use of theory and practice models
C) One-size-fits-all interventions are generally considered to be appropriate strategies for care
D) The systems in which clients are embedded impacts intervention choices

Question 37

The social worker's roles of broker, mediator, case manager, advocate, and educator are mutually exclusive.

Question 38

Which of the following is a strategy of empowerment practice?

A) Helping the client to understand the way early attachment patterns have created problems
B) Supporting the client to engage in self-advocacy by building on strengths
C) Doubting the client's ability to create change
D) Directing the client's decision-making to create change

Question 39

Describe the process of termination with a client who has met the goals of the intervention.