Lcsw Exam Study

Front 1

Define the Acronym "Aspirins"

Back 1

A= Assess before Action
S=Start Where the Client is
P=Preserve life over all
I=Informed Consent/Take Issue to group
R=Rule out organic
I=Influence-Do not treat under
N=Non Judgemental attitude
S=Self Determination

Front 2

Define 5 social worker roles

Back 2

Advocate
Broker
Enabler
Mediator
Teacher

Front 3

What interview skill is most commonly used with borderlines?

Back 3

Support

Front 4

How many phases in practice?

Back 4

3
Beginning (Preparation)
Middle (works phase)
Ending (Referrel, Termianation, transfer)

Front 5

What happens in the beginning Stage of Practice?

Back 5

Acceptance, Assessment-Biopsychosocial, Contracting, Individualizing, Intake, client ambivalence, voluntary or involuntary status, tuning in

Front 6

What happens in the middle stage of practice?

Back 6

Recontracting, reassessment, slump, working through

Front 7

What happens in the ending phase of practice?

Back 7

abandonment,loss, anger, assessing goal fulfillment, denial, evaluation, flight into health, recapitualation, regression, reintroduce problem, sadness, summarization

Front 8

What is the Charity Organization Society

Back 8

They were privately administered and philanthropically funded organizations that were the essential forerunners of modern social service agencies. COS workers were known as "friendly visitors"

Front 9

What is the treatment of choice for depression?

Back 9

Cognitive Therapy

Front 10

Define Ego Psychology

Back 10

Psychosocially oriented concepts that build on freudian theory, but emphasize the individuals, adult development and ability to solve problems and deal with social realities

Front 11

Define Scapegoating

Back 11

A member of a family or group who has become the object of displaced conflict or unfair criticism

Front 12

Define Double Bind (Meta Communication)

Back 12

A form of paradoxical communication in which one person expresses a message that can be interpreted in two or more contradictory or mutually exclusive ways and the recipient of the message is prevented from escaping the consequences or commenting on the contradiction or Competing demands to which a person must respond

Front 13

What are the three types of leadership roles of group therapist?

Back 13

Authoritarian, Democratic, Laissez-faire

Front 14

What is Conjoint Therapy?

Back 14

A type of intervention in which a therapist treat a family by meeting with the members toghether for regular sessions

Front 15

Define Life space interviews

Back 15

Take place in settings where problem occurs