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Eva: Vignette Success Story

Congratulations to SWTP reader Eva, who passed the California Clinical Vignette exam earlier this week.  Here, some emails that preceded exam time, and an explanation of how she made it happen:

Hi,

I was glad to find your site – it was helpful in preparing and passing
the first exam.

I’m planning to take the second exam [...]

Mailbag: Practice v. Real Exam

From my inbox–email from a social work classmate reencountered at AATBS’s vignette workshop:
Just read you passed the second exam….CONGRATS!!!

I STILL have not taken mine yet as I have been busy with my new [job].

So, I read that the HARD questions are not as hard as the actual exam? That is sooo comforting because [...]

LCSW Exam

For those who’ve cleared the first-exam hurdle and are a mere 40 vignette questions away from an LCSW, more free practice awaits:

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Vignette Exam Practice: Kevin, Question Four

Last question of the bunch: barriers to treatment.In your first meeting with Kevin, 47, he tells you that he’s been “feeling funny” lately, having trouble getting up in the morning, sleeping “too much.” Kevin says he has “occasionally” used crack cocaine in the past, but says “I haven’t hit the pipe in a week.” Kevin [...]

Vignette Exam Practice: Kevin, Question Three

A law and ethics question. My answer and explanation are in comments. On the exam (or at least on practice questions I’ve seen), questions may ask exclusively about law or ethics. Different answers, so heads up.

In your first meeting with Kevin, 47, he tells you that he’s been “feeling funny” lately, having trouble getting up [...]

Vignette Exam Practice: Kevin, Question Two

Next question. (The first is here.) Worth noting: Groups of answers aren’t in any particular order. Your task is to rate each item and choose the answer group that best answers the question. AATBS advocates using 2s, 1s, and 0s to mark each part of an answer (2s are good answers, 1s okay, 0s bad). [...]

Vignette Exam Practice: Question One

Some test materials for the vignette exam suggest writing questions yourself to get a behind-the-scenes view of the process. So I did. Here’s the first of several questions for the following exhibit. Who knows what the test really looks like?–this is based on samples from AATBS and the BBS. Not studying [...]

Virginia Satir

Though it wasn’t stressed in written exam prep materials, some suggest knowing a little something about Virginia Satir for the vignette. So…go know it!

@ wikipedia
quotes @ thinkexist.com
bio @ webster.edu
books @ amazon

Identity Problem

This came up running vignette practice questions.  What exactly is an Identity Problem in the DSM?  An answer:

Identity Problems are characterized by severe distress and uncertainty about issues related to identity, such as long-term goals, career choice, friendship patterns, sexual orientation and behavior, moral values, and group loyalties.  The debilitating feature of Identity Problem is [...]

Vignette Test Prep

Okay, so maybe this one is simpler. Harder, but simpler. AATBS suggests reading their not-so-thick vignette strategies book then running the practice exams over and over again. After you’ve learned how to properly fold your piece of scratch paper and field the 40 questions quickly enough to finish them in 2 hours, [...]