LMSW Social Work Practice Models 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In the Task-Centered Model, what is the primary focus of the social worker's role?
- Exploring unconscious conflicts
- Collaboratively identifying and completing specific tasks (Correct answer)
- Providing long-term supportive therapy
- Analyzing family-of-origin patterns
Correct answer: Collaboratively identifying and completing specific tasks
The Task-Centered Model focuses on helping clients identify specific problems and complete concrete tasks within a brief, structured timeframe.
Question 2: Which practice model is most closely associated with Erik Erikson's stages of psychosocial development?
- Cognitive-Behavioral Model
- Psychosocial Developmental Model (Correct answer)
- Crisis Intervention Model
- Structural Family Therapy
Correct answer: Psychosocial Developmental Model
The Psychosocial Developmental Model draws on Erikson's eight stages of psychosocial development and the concept of epigenesis.
Question 3: A social worker using the Narrative Model would MOST likely ask which of the following questions?
- What automatic thoughts contribute to your depression?
- When did this problem first begin, and what were your relationships like then?
- What unique outcomes have occurred when the problem did not dominate your life? (Correct answer)
- How would you rate your level of distress on a scale from 1 to 10?
Correct answer: What unique outcomes have occurred when the problem did not dominate your life?
Narrative therapy seeks 'unique outcomes' or exceptions to the problem-saturated story to help clients re-author their lives.
Question 4: The concept of 'circular causality' is MOST central to which practice model?
- Psychodynamic Model
- Systems/Family Systems Theory (Correct answer)
- Cognitive-Behavioral Model
- Task-Centered Model
Correct answer: Systems/Family Systems Theory
Circular causality, the idea that events are mutually influencing rather than linear, is a foundational concept in systems and family systems theory.
Question 5: Which of the following BEST describes the concept of 'functional analysis' in Behavioral Social Work?
- Assessing the client's level of social functioning
- Identifying antecedents, behaviors, and consequences (ABC) of a target behavior (Correct answer)
- Analyzing the family's structural hierarchy
- Evaluating the client's ego strengths and defenses
Correct answer: Identifying antecedents, behaviors, and consequences (ABC) of a target behavior
Functional analysis (ABC model) examines the antecedents, the behavior itself, and its consequences to understand and modify behavior.
Question 6: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) was primarily developed by which theorists?
- Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis
- Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg (Correct answer)
- Salvador Minuchin and Jay Haley
- Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
Correct answer: Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg
SFBT was developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee.
Question 7: In Motivational Interviewing (MI), the acronym OARS refers to which set of techniques?
- Observation, Assessment, Reflection, Summary
- Open questions, Affirmations, Reflective listening, Summaries (Correct answer)
- Outcomes, Agreements, Resistance, Strategies
- Orientation, Ambivalence, Readiness, Support
Correct answer: Open questions, Affirmations, Reflective listening, Summaries
OARS—Open questions, Affirmations, Reflective listening, and Summaries—are the core communication techniques in Motivational Interviewing.
LMSW Social Work Practice Models 2
In the Task-Centered Model, what is the primary focus of the social worker's role?