ASWB Masters Intervention Methods & Practice Practice Questions
Intervention Methods & Practice makes up 10 of every 50 questions on a Tigertest ASWB Masters practice test. Here are 10 of the 40 questions on it, each with the answer and the reason.
Updated by the Tigertest team. Based on the ASWB Masters content outline (2026 Examination Guidebook). Original questions; 50 per test, weighted like the real exam. Not affiliated with ASWB.
1. A social worker helps a tenant group learn to negotiate repairs with their landlord themselves. This BEST reflects:
- A.Crisis management plans
- B.Empowerment practice
- C.Paternalism
- D.Case closure
Answer: B. Empowerment helps clients gain the skills and power to act on their own behalf, rather than the worker acting for them.
2. A social worker's deliberate use of her own personality, reactions and judgment in the helping process is called:
- A.Countertransference
- B.Self-disclosure
- C.Self-determination
- D.Use of self
Answer: D. Use of self is the purposeful use of one's personality, values and reactions to help the client, guided by self-awareness. Self-disclosure is only one, narrower part of it.
3. A client says she hates coming to sessions. The social worker's BEST response is:
- A."Tell me more about that."
- B."Other clients like it here."
- C."Then you can stop coming."
- D."You have to come anyway."
Answer: A. Exploring the client's feelings keeps the relationship open and may reveal concerns that can be addressed. Defending or dismissing shuts down communication.
4. In the problem-solving process, which step comes FIRST?
- A.Evaluation
- B.Termination
- C.Engagement
- D.Intervention
Answer: C. The planned change process runs engagement, assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation and termination. Engagement builds the working relationship.
5. At an IEP meeting for a student, the school social worker's MAIN role is to:
- A.Decide the reading curriculum
- B.Choose the child's classroom teacher
- C.Share social and family factors
- D.Set the child's grades
Answer: C. On an interdisciplinary team, the social worker contributes information on family, social and emotional factors and helps link the family to resources.
6. Hospice care is intended for a patient who:
- A.Has a prognosis of 6 months or less
- B.Needs short-term rehab
- C.Has any long-term chronic illness
- D.Wants curative treatment
Answer: A. Under Medicare, hospice serves patients with a prognosis of 6 months or less if the illness runs its usual course, focusing on comfort rather than cure. Palliative care can be provided at any stage.
7. Kubler-Ross's stages of grief are BEST understood as:
- A.A checklist for termination
- B.Steps everyone completes in order
- C.Signs of a mental disorder
- D.Common reactions, not fixed steps
Answer: D. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance describe common responses to loss. People move among them in different orders and may skip some.
8. A parent yells and spanks when a toddler cries. Which intervention would BEST build parenting capacity?
- A.Giving the parent books only
- B.Practicing calming strategies
- C.Telling the parent to be nicer
- D.Removing the child at once
Answer: B. Parenting skill building works best with modeling, practice and feedback on specific strategies. Removal is for safety risks that cannot be managed in the home.
9. The Adoption and Safe Families Act generally requires a permanency hearing within how long of a child entering foster care?
- A.24 months
- B.12 months
- C.3 months
- D.6 months
Answer: B. ASFA requires a permanency hearing within 12 months and generally requires filing to terminate parental rights after a child has been in care 15 of the last 22 months, with exceptions.
10. The Indian Child Welfare Act gives placement preference for a Native child in foster care FIRST to:
- A.A non-Native adoptive family
- B.A group home near the school
- C.Any licensed foster home
- D.The child's extended family
Answer: D. ICWA sets placement preferences: the child's extended family, then a foster home approved by the tribe, then other Native families. It recognizes tribal sovereignty over child welfare.
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