F.

I Prelims
2024

Answer the following correctly:

1. A social worker who has developed competence in working with individual, groups and
community in any social work practice who has knowledge and skills necessary and in in
engaging people in problem solving, bringing needs and resources together and in systematically
using practice experience to document the level of effectiveness of policies and services is
considered ______
a. Consultant
b. An expert
c. Generalist
d. Social planner
2. The social worker in this role seeks to improve a service delivery system through increasing
communication linkage and coordination between human service resources ____
a. Mobilizer of resources
b. Community outreach worker
c. Coordinator
d. Resource provider
3. An example of an involuntary client is ______
a. A disaster victim who is in need of financial and material assistance
b. An unwed mother who surrenders her child to a child welfare agency
c. Street children who have been apprehended roaming around in the red-light district
d. A battered wife who seeks refuge in a crisis-intervention center to escape from abuses of her
husband
4. Exploration of client problem often reveals that resources beyond those provided by the agency
are needed to ameliorate or remedy the presenting difficulties. The social workers should___
a. Refer the client to other service providers
b. Politely dismiss the client because the service needed is not available in the agency
c. Encourage the client to look for other agencies
d. Encourage the client to make use of whatever available service the agency can provide
5. This skill is used to direct or maintain attention to work at hand redirecting attention to relevant
topics.
a. Rehearsing
b. Clarifying
c. Focusing
d. Discussing
6. The worker asked the mother “why did you think your husband hit you?” this type of question
is_____
a. Open-ended question
b. Open and close ended question
c. Responding question
d. None of the above
7. One of the following is a dynamic interaction and psychological interplay between the worker
and client with their own particular attitudes and feelings in a particular situation
a. Problem-solving process
 b. Client-worker relationship
c. Counseling
d. Communication
8. A concept that guides social workers in establishing and sustaining rapport and maintaining
psychological contact with the client is____
a. Perceptiveness to client’s feelings
b. Start where the client is
c. Explore the client’s problematic situation
d. Responding to client’s sensitivity to client’s emotion
9. In understanding the client’s behavior social worker must not seek for behavior because most of
the reasons for man’s behavior are psychological causes rooted in feelings and emotions. This is
one of the facts about human nature.
a. Ego psychology
b. Human motivation
c. Human psychology
d. None of the above
10. _____ refers to the qualities of emotional and personality make-up, of intellectual and physical
endowment that the individual has and can use in the task of problem-solving.
a. Personality
b. Capacity
c. Ability
d. Client’s strengths
11. Quick immediate responses to emergencies and to acute, sudden onset of problems resulting
from some outside agent such as suicide attempt, child beating, rape or natural disasters fall
under the general category of ______
a. Crisis intervention
b. Disaster management
c. Emergency relief assistance
d. Stress debriefing
12. Saying what you really think when you feel it should be expressed, rather than keeping your
ideas, opinions and feelings to yourself
a. Honesty
b. Levelling
c. Ventilation
d. Disclosure
13. It comprises the beginning phase of the process
a. Assessment and planning
b. Data gathering
c. Pew-affiliation
d. All of the above
14. The crisis workers, helpers or rescuers who are ‘’ silent sufferers’’ though not directly affected by
the crisis
a. Direct victims
b. Indirect victims
c. Hidden victims
d. None of the above
15. The following are the usual cause of miscommunication except
a. Blocking
 b. Selective listening
c. Empathic listening
d. Filtering
16. The process of mutual influence between social worker and the client is__
a. Relationship
b. Understanding
c. Reflexiveness
d. Rapport
17. These are people from other organizations, with whom the social worker is working during the
course of helping clients
a. Colleagues
b. Professional
c. Team player
d. Staff
18. Which of the following is not part of a social worker’s ethical obligation to colleagues?
a. Respect
b. Competence and cultural competence
c. Collaboration and conflict
d. Sexual boundaries
19. It is known to be the prototype of modern-day community center
a. Community chest
b. Settlement houses
c. Hull house
d. Bahay tuluyan
20. The primary task of community organization involves the following except one:
a. Education and training
b. Mobilization
c. Seeing to it that people follow orders from the leader
d. Organization building
21. To overcome the people’s mistrust, it is important for the worker to initially
a. Conduct intake interview
b. Avoid hostile people
c. Establish rapport with the people
d. All of the above
22. In using the barangay structure as point of entry in working with communities, what approach is
used?
a. MBN approach
b. Baranganic Approach
c. Holistic approach
d. All of the above
23. What do you call the very broad statement of why the organization or its sub unit exists?
a. Goal
b. Mission
c. Vision
d. Objectives
24. Which local agencies should be tapped for the issue on flooding?
a. DRRMO
b. MPDC
 c. MHO
d. All of the above
25. Organizing and planning in the barangay can be facilitated by___
a. Media
b. Core groups/Committees*
c. GO
d. All of the above
26. What determines the type of C.O model to be used in working with communities
a. Dictate of the agency
b. Preference of the worker
c. Nature of the problem
d. All of the above
27. Raising eyebrows and gossip are examples of ____
a. Informal punishment
b. Formal punishment
c. Stigma
d. None of the above
28. A process involved in staffing to advertise in national papers, journals and contacts with school
and through personal contacts is called____
a. Placement
b. Recruitment, selection and hiring
c. Promotion
d. Transfer
29. Which of the following is not included in the deficiency needs of Maslow?
a. Esteem needs
b. Belongingness and love
c. Safety needs
d. Self-actualization
30. All of these theorists proposed certain aspects of personality development in terms of stages
except for one
a. Skinner*
b. Kohlberg
c. Erikson
d. Piaget
31. According to Piagetian theory, cognitive development is influence by all of the following except..
a. Perception
b. Reasoning
c. Verbal facilities
d. Language
32. Of the following approaches to psychology, which area would be most concerned with the idea
that people strive toward self-actualization
a. Biological
b. Cognitive
c. Psychodynamic
d. Humanistic
33. This is an element of C.O process which brings together the community development worker in a
helping process
a. Area selection
 b. Problem*
c. People
d. Programs/services
34. This acting as a ____ between groups, the client community and outside resources
a. Broker
b. Mediator
c. Negotiator
d. Coordinator
35. Community organization as a method of intervention looks at the community as its_____
a. Problem
b. Social entity
c. Client
d. Solution
36. An effective strategy for lack of manpower and resources
a. manpower development
b. skills training
c. human resource development
d. use of volunteers
37. listlessness, little energy, withdrawal, sadness, despair lack of motivation to go on are the
manifestation of _____. The client’s pain is real and evident
a. Avoidance
b. Acceptance
c. Depression
d. Bargaining
38. Aspect of culture except one
a. Beliefs
b. Norms
c. Folkways
d. Values
39. Executive officer of the personality
a. Super ego
b. i.d
c. ego psychology
d. morality
40. which type of interviewing question is most likely to generate client defensiveness?
a. Open
b. Closed
c. Leading
d. Why
41. A primary strategy for social workers interested in community building, networking, and local
level problem resolution is;
a. Interorganizational collaboration
b. Interagency consultation
c. An ad hoc committee utilization
d. None of the above
42. Which of the techniques can assist a multi-problem client during the intake process
a. Free association
b. Interpretation of dreams
 c. Partialization
d. All of the above
43. To meet legal and ethical requirements, a supervisor responsible for evaluating a social worker’s
performance must base the evaluation on which factor?
a. A detailed job description
b. Evidence of productivity
c. Effectiveness in service to clients
d. Work habits and professionalism
44. A physician refuses to inform a patient of a terminal illness and hospital social worker is opposed
to keeping this information from the patient. The social worker should;
a. Inform the patient of the illness and prognosis
b. Discuss the concerns with the physician
c. Schedule a meeting of the team treating the patient
d. Report the physician
45. The social development of a 6-year-old can be determined as age appropriate when the medium
of lay is primarily
a. With opposite sex friends
b. In parallel play
c. With same sex friends
d. In mixed sex groups
46. Which of the following terms represents a combination of stereotyped beliefs and negative
attitudes which cause individuals to think about others in a pre-determined way?
a. Discrimination
b. Ethnocentrism
c. Racism
d. Prejudice
47. After working with a client for 2 months, the social worker recognizes that he has lost his
objectivity and permitted himself to be pulled into the client’s manipulative strategies. This is an
example of;
a. Countertransference in the relationship
b. Transference in the relationship
c. Need for improved attending skills
d. All of the above
48. During the initial phase of treatment, the role of the social worker can best be clarified by;
a. Developing contract to be followed
b. Defining the therapeutic modality to be employed
c. Discussing transference and countertransference issues
d. Determining the client’s expectations
49. A social worker is counseling a client who has tested positive for HIV. The client admits to not
informing sexual partners of the diagnosis
The social worker should first:
a. Encourage the client to inform sexual partners
b. Inform the client’s partners of the positive test
c. Contact the public health authority
d. Take this as an opportunity to discuss AIDS prevention
50. An 8-year-old was brought to a family service agency by her parents because of enuresis and
poor school performance. After the initial assessment, the first course of action for the social
worker should be to;
a. Obtain complete social history
b. Recommend psychological testing
c. Refer the child to the physician to rule out organic problems
d. Request school records

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