Social Work Test Prep

Just launched on the web by the NASW, Social Workers Speak.  Not test prep, but maybe will work as semi-guilt-free procrastination.  Announced this way:

Social workers have been portrayed on television and in films for decades. However, despite the positive and life-affirming work that social workers do in reality, their image in the media is often stereotyped.

This new comment just popped up on an old post. Reprinted here so people actually see it. Congratulations, Eva!:

Ok, so I just took the standard exam two days ago. I bought the AATBS material – bronze package. I took four days off of work – and studied Thursday through Monday. I took it Tuesday [...]

Go meet the theorists you’re supposed to be studying, see them get treated like rock stars. The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference approaches… [...]

My list of things to slam into my brain as test day nears.  

Family Therapy Theories (Structural vs. Strategic vs…)
Psych Testing (MMPI vs. MACI vs…)
Differentials (Schizophrenoform vs. Schizophrenia vs….; Bipolar I vs. Bipolar II vs. Cyclothymia…; Conversion vs. Factitious vs…)
Legal Stuff (CA 1024 vs. 5150 vs…; Parental consent of tx; Abuse reporting)
Neurotransmitters 101 (Seratonin vs. Dopamine [...]

Have you taken the social work exam using these or any other resources? How’d it go? What helped? What didn’t? What do you suggest to the next wave of hopefuls?

Haven’t gotten there yet?  How’s it going?  How are you studying?  If you signed up for a course, how is it?   How many hours [...]

Here’s something to try while running practice questions (or taking the test):  Pump yourself up by trying on a little attitude.  Think, “I know this.”  Be smug about it.  The question is a waste of time, too easy, unworthy of the enterprise.  

Or take it a step further:  Think, “[PERSON NOT IN THE FIELD] knows this.” [...]

A grateful shout-out to Dr. Linton Hutchinson of socialworkexam.com who contacted TSWTPB over the weekend with a pass to check out his site. Favorite thing so far: The way study questions come in sets of five, which had this prepper working extra till getting 5/5 questions right, meaning 5/5 green smiley faces and [...]