ASWB Advanced Generalist 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: An advanced generalist social worker facilitating a task group should use which leadership approach to best promote member participation and ownership of outcomes?
- Authoritarian leadership
- Laissez-faire leadership
- Democratic leadership (Correct answer)
- Transactional leadership
Correct answer: Democratic leadership
Democratic leadership encourages member input, shared decision-making, and collaboration, which builds investment in group goals and is most appropriate for task groups.
Question 2: Cultural humility in advanced generalist practice differs from cultural competence primarily because cultural humility:
- Requires mastery of all cultural norms
- Is a fixed set of skills to be learned
- Emphasizes ongoing self-reflection and openness to learning (Correct answer)
- Focuses only on racial and ethnic differences
Correct answer: Emphasizes ongoing self-reflection and openness to learning
Cultural humility is a lifelong process of self-reflection and learning, recognizing that a worker can never fully 'master' another's culture but can remain open and respectful.
Question 3: Which of the following is a hallmark of the strengths-based perspective in assessment?
- Cataloging all client deficits and pathologies
- Identifying client resources, resilience, and capabilities (Correct answer)
- Focusing primarily on DSM-5 diagnosis
- Emphasizing barriers over opportunities
Correct answer: Identifying client resources, resilience, and capabilities
The strengths-based perspective centers on recognizing and mobilizing client assets, resilience, and potential rather than focusing on problems and deficits.
Question 4: A social worker employed by a nonprofit discovers the executive director is misusing grant funds. According to ethics and the NASW Code, the worker should FIRST:
- Report directly to the state attorney general
- Confront the executive director privately about the concern
- Immediately contact the funding agency
- Discuss the concern with a trusted colleague or supervisor (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Discuss the concern with a trusted colleague or supervisor
Consulting a trusted colleague or supervisor first allows the worker to clarify concerns, consider options, and act thoughtfully before escalating, consistent with ethical consultation principles.
Question 5: In program evaluation, formative evaluation is conducted primarily to:
- Measure final program outcomes after completion
- Inform improvements during program implementation (Correct answer)
- Justify budget cuts to a program
- Compare results to a national benchmark
Correct answer: Inform improvements during program implementation
Formative evaluation is ongoing and conducted during program implementation to provide feedback that helps improve the program as it runs.
Question 6: The ecological perspective in social work assessment emphasizes the importance of examining:
- Only intrapsychic conflicts
- Only socioeconomic status
- Person-in-environment transactions and 'goodness of fit' (Correct answer)
- Biological determinism exclusively
Correct answer: Person-in-environment transactions and 'goodness of fit'
The ecological perspective, developed by Germain and Gitterman, focuses on the fit between people and their environments and the transactional nature of that relationship.
Question 7: An advanced generalist social worker is writing a grant proposal. Which element is MOST critical to include to demonstrate program feasibility?
- A detailed description of staff salaries
- A logic model linking inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes (Correct answer)
- A biography of the agency's founder
- A list of competitor agencies
Correct answer: A logic model linking inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes
A logic model demonstrates the clear, evidence-based connection between resources, planned activities, and expected outcomes, which is central to establishing program feasibility for funders.
ASWB Advanced Generalist 2
An advanced generalist social worker facilitating a task group should use which leadership approach to best promote member participation and ownership of outcomes?