extra knowledge • Social Work Test Prep

NASW Standards of Practice

You’ve got plenty of reading as it is. But if you want to pile on some extra, the collection of NASW Standards of Practice pdfs is here. If something jumps out at you as especially helpful for licensing test prep, let us know.

Positive Discipline

Would liked to have known what Positive Discipline was before running the vignette practice exam I just did not-so-great on. Oh well. Some answers: @ wikipedia @ positivediscipline.com book @ amazon [...]

Nonverbal Communication

Another wiki page worth a speed read: Nonverbal Communication.

You may have heard of kinesics (movement), proxemics (space), and paralanguage (intonation). But haptics (touching)? New vocab for me.

Reality Therapy

Wiki(s) of the moment: Reality Therapy. The Reality Therapy approach to counseling and problem-solving focuses on the here-and-now of the client and how to create a better future. Typically, clients seek to discover what they really want and whether what they are currently doing (how they are choosing to behave) is actually bringing them [...]

Marlatt and Gordon's Relapse Prevention

Had to dig to find a quick summary of Marlatt’s Relapse Prevention Therapy (RP to some, RPT to others). Learn it in a page here, or in ten (more than you need) here. (The second might be useful for actual doing, as opposed to just multiple-choice knowing.)

Defense Mechanisms

Encountered while making flash cards–hadn’t seen this elsewhere, but seems helpful (and wouldn’t fit on a card)–Vaillant’s Levels of Defense Mechanisms: Level I – psychotic defences (i.e. psychotic denial, delusional projection) Level II – immature defences (i.e. fantasy, projection, passive aggression, acting out) Level III – neurotic defences (i.e. intellectualization, reaction formation, dissociation, displacement, [...]

Testing: MMPI

Questions I keep missing on the practice tests: stuff about psych testing. Never learned it at school, don’t use it at work. Have to go from scratch. Does this mean anything to you?:

1 Hs Hypochondriasis Concern with bodily symptoms 2 D Depression Depressive Symptoms 3 Hy Hysteria Awareness of problems and vulnerabilities 4 [...]