ASWB Bachelors 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A BSW social worker is meeting with a client who reveals they have been stockpiling prescription medications. What is the MOST appropriate first response?
- Contact the client's prescribing physician immediately
- Assess the client's intent and level of risk for self-harm (Correct answer)
- Call 911 to have the client hospitalized
- Document the disclosure and continue the session
Correct answer: Assess the client's intent and level of risk for self-harm
Before taking any action, the social worker must assess the client's intent and lethality to determine the appropriate level of intervention.
Question 2: Which of the following BEST describes the concept of 'dual relationship' in social work practice?
- Having two clients in the same family system
- A worker who holds both clinical and administrative roles
- A situation where the social worker has both a professional and personal relationship with a client (Correct answer)
- Providing services in two different settings simultaneously
Correct answer: A situation where the social worker has both a professional and personal relationship with a client
A dual relationship occurs when a social worker engages in a secondary role with a client outside the professional relationship, creating an ethical boundary concern.
Question 3: A client from a collectivist culture refuses to make any decisions without consulting their extended family. The BSW social worker should:
- Encourage the client to practice individual decision-making skills
- Respect this cultural value and involve the family in the process as appropriate (Correct answer)
- Document the client's dependence as a clinical concern
- Refer the client to a social worker from the same cultural background
Correct answer: Respect this cultural value and involve the family in the process as appropriate
Cultural competence requires social workers to respect and incorporate clients' cultural values, including collectivist decision-making norms.
Question 4: Under the NASW Code of Ethics, social workers' primary obligation is to:
- Their employing agency
- Society at large
- Their clients (Correct answer)
- The social work profession
Correct answer: Their clients
The NASW Code of Ethics establishes that social workers' primary ethical responsibility is to promote the well-being of clients.
Question 5: A BSW is working with an older adult whose adult children want to place them in a nursing facility against the client's wishes. The client has capacity. The social worker should FIRST:
- Arrange a family meeting to discuss placement options
- Support the client's right to self-determination (Correct answer)
- Assess whether the home environment is safe
- Contact Adult Protective Services
Correct answer: Support the client's right to self-determination
When a client has decision-making capacity, self-determination is paramount and must be respected before exploring other interventions.
Question 6: Which of the following is an example of a macro-level social work intervention?
- Providing individual counseling to a homeless veteran
- Facilitating a support group for survivors of domestic violence
- Advocating for policy changes to expand affordable housing (Correct answer)
- Conducting a biopsychosocial assessment for a new client
Correct answer: Advocating for policy changes to expand affordable housing
Macro-level practice focuses on systems change, including policy advocacy, community organizing, and legislative reform.
Question 7: A social worker discovers that a colleague is billing Medicaid for services never rendered. The MOST appropriate action is to:
- Confront the colleague privately and ask them to stop
- Report the behavior through appropriate agency or regulatory channels (Correct answer)
- Document the concern and wait to see if it continues
- Discuss the situation with other colleagues to get their perspective
Correct answer: Report the behavior through appropriate agency or regulatory channels
Social workers have an ethical obligation to report colleague misconduct through proper channels, as fraud harms clients and public trust.
ASWB Bachelors 2
A BSW social worker is meeting with a client who reveals they have been stockpiling prescription medications.
What is the MOST appropriate first response?