LCSW UPDATED EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
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Steps of Community Organizing - ANSWER: 1. Integrate into the community
2. Identify the issue impacting the community
3. Identify individuals and create core group
4. Set goals and objectives
5. Create an action plan to meet goals
6. Execute and monitor the action plan
7. Evaluate the effect of the action plan on the stated goals
Lobbying - ANSWER: Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials,
especially legislators, and the policies they enact.
Coalitions - ANSWER: Group of people or organizations that share a common interest
and work collaboratively to achieve a shared goal.
Internal Coalition - ANSWER: Work within a specific organization to achieve a goal
External Coalition - ANSWER: Work with multiple organizations to achieve a common
goal.
Countertransference - ANSWER: A set of conscious or unconscious emotional
reactions to a client experienced by a therapist. This usually originates in the
therapist's own developmental conflicts or past.
Transference - ANSWER: The emotional reactions that are assigned to current
relationships but originated one earlier experiences (often presenting as the feelings
a client has toward a therapist). When a client experiences this interaction with the
therapist, it can be discussed and used therapeutically.
Dual Diagnosis - ANSWER: The occurrence of coexistent diseases within an
individual. This is most commonly associated with a substance use disorder and
another psychiatric disorder
Dual Relationship - ANSWER: Having a second role with the client in addition to the
client-therapist relationship (i.e. friend, business associate, family member, sex
partner).
Ego syntonic - ANSWER: Traits of personality, thought, behavior, and values that are
incorporated by the individual who considers them acceptable and consistent with
his or her overall "true" self.
,Ego Dystonic - ANSWER: Traits of personality, behavior, thought, or orientation
considered to be unacceptable, repugnant, or inconsistent with the individual's
perceptions—conscious or unconscious—of himself or herself.
Empathy - ANSWER: A therapeutic technique in which the social worker
communicates to a client that they perceive and understand the experiences,
emotional state, and/or ideas of their client.
Empowerment Model - ANSWER: This model utilizes interventions that help people
achieve a sense of control in their lives by using a client's strengths, resources, and
resilience. It aims to reduce powerlessness created by social and political
environments that oppress.
Evidence based practice - ANSWER: This combines the social worker's clinical
experience, code of ethics, and client preferences with well-researched interventions
to guide the treatment and services a client receives to achieve their therapeutic
goals
Informed Consent - ANSWER: An ethical principle requiring that research
participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to
participate.
Self Determination - ANSWER: An ethical principle of social work that allows clients
to make their own choices about their treatment and their lives
Reflection/Reflective Listening - ANSWER: When using reflection, the social worker is
accurately describing the client's verbal and nonverbal clues, listening and
responding to not just the content, but the feelings of the client. It involves
communicating that you accurately sense the world as they are experiencing it.
Reflection is like holding up a mirror in counseling; you are reflecting back the
essence of what the client has just communicated (verbally and nonverbally) to you.
Reframing - ANSWER: A technique used to help clients see their situation in a new
light or from a different perspective they haven't thought of
Interpretation - ANSWER: The therapist's clinical impression of the meaning behind a
behavior/communication. It goes beyond the explicit and observable client content
and involves a communicating an inferred component with the intention of a doing
new knowledge, understanding, or meaning.
Summary - ANSWER: Condensing the main points of what the client is saying or
feeling in a session. It covers the primary components of the session so the client has
an opportunity to recap key points of the session before it ends.
Confrontation - ANSWER: Addressing and bringing awareness to something the client
may be overlooking, avoiding, or denying.
, Clarification - ANSWER: This is used when the client makes a vague or ambiguous
statement in order to understand what they mean.
Probing Questions - ANSWER: These are questions the social worker asks to help the
client dig deeper into their thoughts, feelings, and opinions.
Social justice - ANSWER: A social work principle that involves working toward
everyone having the same economic, political, and social rights, protections, and
opportunities.
Board of Directions - ANSWER: A committee responsible for significant decisions and
reaction within an organization.
-mission and vision, funding, staffing of high level positions, and strategic planning
Capacity Building - ANSWER: The process of improving an individual or organization's
abilities, skills, processes, and resources in order to expand, grow, and fulfill its
mission.
Coalition - ANSWER: A coalition brings together people/groups/factions/political
parties that join their resources and manpower to work towards a specific
change/goal that individually they would be unable to achieve.
Task Force - ANSWER: Any group or organization that is assembled for or assigned to
complete a specific task.
-on the exam, you will see this for community organizing or larger scale program dev
Community Organizing - ANSWER: Engaging with and empowering members of a
community to address a common problem and bring about positive change within
the community
Program Evaluation - ANSWER: Evaluates a program's effectiveness. Data gathered
from an evaluation can reused to improve the services the program delivers.
-overall program eval (outcome eval, summ eval) looks at the results of a program
and whether or not it met the stated goals of the program.
-Process eval analyzes the implementation of the program to determine whether
each step of the program was executed effectively.
Policy Analysis - ANSWER: Evaluation of a policy to understand what led to the
creation and implementation of the policy and how it will impact various people and
communities
Crisis - ANSWER: Any situation where an individual experiences an overwhelming
event which upsets one's psychological equilibrium or baseline level of functioning
Maturational Crisis - ANSWER: Precipitated by normal stress during the course of life
DETAILED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT VERIFIED SOLUTIONS) |
GUARANTEED PASS. (BRAND NEW!!)
Steps of Community Organizing - ANSWER: 1. Integrate into the community
2. Identify the issue impacting the community
3. Identify individuals and create core group
4. Set goals and objectives
5. Create an action plan to meet goals
6. Execute and monitor the action plan
7. Evaluate the effect of the action plan on the stated goals
Lobbying - ANSWER: Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials,
especially legislators, and the policies they enact.
Coalitions - ANSWER: Group of people or organizations that share a common interest
and work collaboratively to achieve a shared goal.
Internal Coalition - ANSWER: Work within a specific organization to achieve a goal
External Coalition - ANSWER: Work with multiple organizations to achieve a common
goal.
Countertransference - ANSWER: A set of conscious or unconscious emotional
reactions to a client experienced by a therapist. This usually originates in the
therapist's own developmental conflicts or past.
Transference - ANSWER: The emotional reactions that are assigned to current
relationships but originated one earlier experiences (often presenting as the feelings
a client has toward a therapist). When a client experiences this interaction with the
therapist, it can be discussed and used therapeutically.
Dual Diagnosis - ANSWER: The occurrence of coexistent diseases within an
individual. This is most commonly associated with a substance use disorder and
another psychiatric disorder
Dual Relationship - ANSWER: Having a second role with the client in addition to the
client-therapist relationship (i.e. friend, business associate, family member, sex
partner).
Ego syntonic - ANSWER: Traits of personality, thought, behavior, and values that are
incorporated by the individual who considers them acceptable and consistent with
his or her overall "true" self.
,Ego Dystonic - ANSWER: Traits of personality, behavior, thought, or orientation
considered to be unacceptable, repugnant, or inconsistent with the individual's
perceptions—conscious or unconscious—of himself or herself.
Empathy - ANSWER: A therapeutic technique in which the social worker
communicates to a client that they perceive and understand the experiences,
emotional state, and/or ideas of their client.
Empowerment Model - ANSWER: This model utilizes interventions that help people
achieve a sense of control in their lives by using a client's strengths, resources, and
resilience. It aims to reduce powerlessness created by social and political
environments that oppress.
Evidence based practice - ANSWER: This combines the social worker's clinical
experience, code of ethics, and client preferences with well-researched interventions
to guide the treatment and services a client receives to achieve their therapeutic
goals
Informed Consent - ANSWER: An ethical principle requiring that research
participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to
participate.
Self Determination - ANSWER: An ethical principle of social work that allows clients
to make their own choices about their treatment and their lives
Reflection/Reflective Listening - ANSWER: When using reflection, the social worker is
accurately describing the client's verbal and nonverbal clues, listening and
responding to not just the content, but the feelings of the client. It involves
communicating that you accurately sense the world as they are experiencing it.
Reflection is like holding up a mirror in counseling; you are reflecting back the
essence of what the client has just communicated (verbally and nonverbally) to you.
Reframing - ANSWER: A technique used to help clients see their situation in a new
light or from a different perspective they haven't thought of
Interpretation - ANSWER: The therapist's clinical impression of the meaning behind a
behavior/communication. It goes beyond the explicit and observable client content
and involves a communicating an inferred component with the intention of a doing
new knowledge, understanding, or meaning.
Summary - ANSWER: Condensing the main points of what the client is saying or
feeling in a session. It covers the primary components of the session so the client has
an opportunity to recap key points of the session before it ends.
Confrontation - ANSWER: Addressing and bringing awareness to something the client
may be overlooking, avoiding, or denying.
, Clarification - ANSWER: This is used when the client makes a vague or ambiguous
statement in order to understand what they mean.
Probing Questions - ANSWER: These are questions the social worker asks to help the
client dig deeper into their thoughts, feelings, and opinions.
Social justice - ANSWER: A social work principle that involves working toward
everyone having the same economic, political, and social rights, protections, and
opportunities.
Board of Directions - ANSWER: A committee responsible for significant decisions and
reaction within an organization.
-mission and vision, funding, staffing of high level positions, and strategic planning
Capacity Building - ANSWER: The process of improving an individual or organization's
abilities, skills, processes, and resources in order to expand, grow, and fulfill its
mission.
Coalition - ANSWER: A coalition brings together people/groups/factions/political
parties that join their resources and manpower to work towards a specific
change/goal that individually they would be unable to achieve.
Task Force - ANSWER: Any group or organization that is assembled for or assigned to
complete a specific task.
-on the exam, you will see this for community organizing or larger scale program dev
Community Organizing - ANSWER: Engaging with and empowering members of a
community to address a common problem and bring about positive change within
the community
Program Evaluation - ANSWER: Evaluates a program's effectiveness. Data gathered
from an evaluation can reused to improve the services the program delivers.
-overall program eval (outcome eval, summ eval) looks at the results of a program
and whether or not it met the stated goals of the program.
-Process eval analyzes the implementation of the program to determine whether
each step of the program was executed effectively.
Policy Analysis - ANSWER: Evaluation of a policy to understand what led to the
creation and implementation of the policy and how it will impact various people and
communities
Crisis - ANSWER: Any situation where an individual experiences an overwhelming
event which upsets one's psychological equilibrium or baseline level of functioning
Maturational Crisis - ANSWER: Precipitated by normal stress during the course of life
