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Social Work Exam Prep: The Home Stretch

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 [...]

How’d It Go? How’s It Going?

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 [...]

Overload

Just read a bunch about delirium, dementia, amnesia, substance abuse, so taking a blogging break. It’s a habit I’m trying to catch: blog-as-study-break rather than blog-as-procrastination-tool.

Or tools–also made these: Therapy Worksheets (submit your worksheets!) and Therapy Books (bibliotherapy!). Plus each blog has its own Amazon store (test prep, worksheets, books). Plus there are [...]

The Social Work Exam Prep Blog

Now I tell me. Using Google’s keyword tool, it becomes clear that I may have misnamed this blog (assuming I’ve been putting it together to be read and used and not just to divert my own test–I mean, exam–anxiety). Check out the numbers: In an average month, according to Google, people search the phrase [...]

"It’s In There"

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 5/5 [...]

Welcome

Welcome to the Social Work Test Prep Blog. I’m an MSW in Los Angeles, about a month into my test prep. Have been slogging through a bunch of different test prep material. The idea is to collect the best of it here and help people out some. Please write, comment, send suggestions, etc. Then, [...]