Forensic Social Worker Study Questions - Question List

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41. In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the need for love and esteem is referred to as emotional dependency. There are five levels of emotionally dependency, all necessary for children to grow into happy individuals. These levels are self-actualization, esteem, love and belonging and:
  1. External fulfillment
  2. Emotional reciprocity
  3. Psychological dependence
  4. Physiological growth
42. Al is described by friends and family as being self-centered. He has problems with anger but never wants to accept the blame. Al’s relationships with two different women failed because he was physically abusive. A social worker might assess this client with reaction formation disorder. Which category of reaction formation disorder would he fall into?
  1. Internalizers
  2. Externalizers
  3. Inhibitors
  4. All of the above
43. Strategies utilized to cope with basic anxiety caused by interpersonal relationships can often be overused. When this happens, they take the appearance of needs as described within the neurosis theory. Which psychologist developed this idea?
  1. Sigmund Freud
  2. Erik Erikson
  3. Karen Horney
  4. Piaget
44. Children will normally avoid being disciplined by their parents. Some, however, seek out discipline by displaying inappropriate behaviors and acting on uncontrollable impulses. If a child acts up in a way that forces people around him to step in and help him control his impulses, he is mostly likely suffering from which of the following problems?
  1. Esteem needs
  2. Spoiled-child syndrome
  3. Abuse and neglect
  4. Emotional disorder
45. Psychoanalysis is part of Sigmund Freud’s structural id-ego-superego model of an individual’s mind. Practice components focus on pathological development and management of aggressive impulses. How one adapts to reality is called:
  1. Reality theory
  2. Ego functioning
  3. Behaviorism
  4. Cognitive development

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