Social Work Test Prep Helping MSWs get through the social work licensing exam. Get closer to your LSW, LCSW, LISW, LICSW (and so on). Free practice exams, tips, tricks, success stories, and tutoring by an experienced tutor.
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Welcome, glad you found the site. The mission here: To help get you through the social work licensing exam process. Among the many features, some favorites:
• A page of links to Free Practice Tests (from AATBS, BTA, Gerry Grossman, and the like).
• Dozens of blog posts including quizzes, links to test-prep audio, flash cards, and lots more.
Please feel free to write with any questions. Good luck preparing for the exam!
Prep-helpful? Incorporating Religion and Spirituality into Social Work Practice with African Americans.
…Or at least that’s the official title. The unofficial title is, “If my client brings God into the conversation, what should I do?” I spoke with Nancy Boyd-Franklin, best-selling author, multicultural researcher, family therapist and clinical trainer, and recipient of awards from the American Psychological Association, Association of Black Psychologists, and the American Family Therapy academy…
Name this therapy:
THIS THERAPY is a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). The primary focus of this treatment approach is to suggest changes in thinking that will lead to changes in behavior, thereby alleviating or improving symptoms. The therapy emphasizes changing irrational thinking patterns that cause emotional distress into thoughts that are more reasonable and rational. THIS THERAPY can be used to treat people affected from disorders such as anxiety, depression and stess.
Answer in comments or at the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders, source of the text.
The latest Social Work Podcast, is up–all about working abroad as a social worker. Not exam-prep content, but maybe exam-prep inspiration.
[I]f you’re interested in learning more about working abroad means, if you’re really interested in traveling to the U.K., or Australia… if you have questions about, “How do I finance it?”, “Can I bring my cat?”, “Do I need a license,” “Do I have to be a community organizer, do I have to be a policy person, can I do direct practice?” this podcast is for you – all of these questions will be answered.
Name this therapy/CBT treatment:
THIS THERAPY identifies the cognitions, emotions and physiological arousal that accompany a fear-inducing stimulus, and attempts to break the pattern of escape that strengthens the fear response through measured exposure to progressively stronger stimuli until habituation is reached. The technique involves the creation of a program of steadily escalating steps or challenges, which can be explicit or implicit, that work towards a final goal representing a ‘non-phobic’ behavior. The patient then voluntarily moves through the steps with a means of terminating each step which is under voluntary control.
Answer in comments or at wikipedia, source of the text.
Name it:
THIS THERAPY is a medical procedure in which a small, carefully controlled amount of electric current is passed through the brain to treat symptoms associated with certain mental disorders. The electric current produces a convulsion for the relief of symptoms associated with such mental illnesses as major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, acute psychosis, and catatonia .
Answer in comments. Details at the EMD, source of the text.
Name that therapy:
The goal of THIS THERAPY is to raise clients’ awareness regarding how they function in their environment (with family, at work, school, friends). The focus of therapy is more on what is happening (the moment-to-moment process) than what is being discussed (the content). Awareness is being alert to what are the most important events in clients’ lives and their environment with full sensorimotor, emotional, cognitive, and energy support.
The answer is in comments and at minddisorders.com, source of the text.
Name that therapy:
THIS THERAPY combines standard cognitive-behavioral techniques for emotion regulation and reality-testing with concepts of mindful awareness, distress tolerance, and acceptance largely derived from Buddhist meditative practice. THIS THERAPY is the first therapy that has been experimentally demonstrated to be effective for treating BPD. Research indicates that THIS THERAPY is also effective in treating patients who represent varied symptoms and behaviors associated with spectrum mood disorders, including self-injury.
This therapy is…named in comments, and at wikipedia, source of the text.
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Quick quiz: This shouldn’t strain your brain too, too much:
[THIS THERAPY] is a psychosocial (both psychological and social) therapy that assumes that faulty thought patterns cause maladaptive behavior and emotional responses. The treatment focuses on changing thoughts in order to solve psychological and personality problems.
Answer in comments or at the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders (where there’s lots more, worth-reading detail).
Congratulations Cara!
I used Gerry Grossman and liked it a lot – had purchased the AATBS for another state and then went with GG for CA. I took the test yesterday and passed. I thought the classes were very helpful (though expensive) because it limited the info you need to know and gives you great little visual ideas on how to remember a lot of the info with timeframes, ages, etc. I was scoring between 68% and 79% on a full 200 questions practice test and in the high 80′s in individual areas after studying them. I thought the actual test was more abstract, theoretical and integrated knowlege of theory, stage of tx, and DX in one question – the practice test quetsions were a bit more straight forward. I felt I had studied a lot of info I never had to recall and really had to focus hard to make sure I read the questions correctly and then read the answer sets carefully too. It wasnt as hard a I expected in terms of content – I felt ready having used my GG materials but the test requires a lot of critical and intense thinking. I recommend the GG materials and the CD’s were good while driving around – never used the flash card,wound up making my own since I am a doer/visual learner. The exam focussed on CBT, Systems, Bowen, Structural, and a lot of psychodymanic – also know the ‘schiz’ DX’s and their diferentials. Good luck!
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