Reference no: EM132981427

Question 1:

During the course of working with her client, the Chang family, the family social worker consistently highlights the family's willingness to take risks and be open and honest with one another in their communications. Furthermore, she explains how these qualities have been instrumental in the success they have achieved. This approach taken by the worker is consistent with:

a) A strength based approach

b) Oppression-based practice

c) Cultural sensitivity

d) Confrontation of denial

Question 2:

During a family session, the family social worker asks the 16 year old daughter who had been sitting between her two parents to change her seating position and move to another seat beside her 18 year old brother. This technique is known as:

a) An enactment

b) Accommodation

c) Maneuvering

d) Unbalancing

Question 3:

Which of the following is/are among the recommended guidelines to facilitate a family's healthy termination from treatment:

a) Provide the family with your emergency contact information, so they can call you at any time if their problems re-surface

b) Raise the topic of termination and invite the family to share their feelings a few sessions before the end of the treatment contract

c) Organize a celebratory event for the family to commemorate their completion of treatment

d) None of the above

Question 4:

A family social worker informs her family that she needs to refer them to a specialist as the family's needs extend beyond her level of competence to provide appropriate ongoing treatment. To ensure a successful referral, the family social worker should:

a) Inform the family of the reasons for the referral and address any question they may have

b) Provide the family with options and allow them to choose the new worker/service/agency

c) Maintain contact with the family until a successful referral is made and a new relationship is established

d) All of the above

Question 5:

Asking the family to rate their current level of family functioning on a scale between 1 and 10 where 1 represents very poor functioning and 10 represents optimal functioning is consistent with:

a) Structural family therapy

b) Narrative family therapy

c) Solution-focused family therapy

d) Communications/experiential family therapy

Question 6:

The Brent family recently completed their 6th out of their scheduled ten family social work sessions. By all accounts their involvement has been going well with both family members and family social worker noting significant improvements in family functioning. Assuming that positive changes continue at which session would it be helpful to bring up the topic of termination:

a) Session 7

b) Session 9

c) Session 10

d) This topic should have been brought up at session 1

Question 7:

Based on a structural family therapy approach, which of the following is/are common source(s) of family dysfunction:

a) An inappropriate family hierarchy

b) Disengaged family subsystems

c) Limited or no opportunities for family members to "grow" and self-actualize

d) All of the above

e) a and b

Question 8:

One negative outcome of triangulation within a family is:

a) The original conflict may not be resolved

b) A new conflict may form between the triangulated person and the party who they do not side with

c) A new triangle may form within the family to diffuse the new conflict

d) All of the above

Question 9:

According to structural family therapists, an appropriate family hierarchy would see:

a) The father/oldest male at the top of the hierarchy

b) The parent(s) at the top of the hierarchy

c) The person who brings in the income at the top of the hierarchy

d) None of the above

Question 10:

Which of the following would be most consistent with a culturally sensitive family social work approach:

a) Treating all families as the "same"

b) Arranging to meet the family at a locale of their choosing

c) Asking family members to explain the meaning and importance of a specific family ritual or tradition

d) All of the above