LCSW Exam 2025 Questions and
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What does KSA stand for? - ✔✔knowledge, skills, and abilities
What is the order of the Social Work process? (6) - ✔✔1. Engagement
2. Assessment
3. Planning
4. Intervention
5. Evaluation
6. Termination
What factors influence people and their behaviors in a social environment? (5) - ✔✔1.
Individual Characteristics
2. Interpersonal Factors
3. Institutional Factors
4. Community Factors
5. Public Policy
What are individual characteristics? - ✔✔Knowledge, experiences, attitudes, beliefs,
and personality, unique to each client
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,What are interpersonal factors? - ✔✔Social support, work relationships, friendships,
and religious community
What are institutional factors? - ✔✔Rules, regulations, and informal structures in the
organizations client is involved with
(smoking, dress expectations, rules around social interactions)
What are community factors? - ✔✔Formal and informal norms and expectations based
on the social environment where a client lives
What are public policies? - ✔✔Mandated regulations and laws, typically by a
government
(wearing seat belts, not using drugs, limits on physical aggression, etc)
What are the most common theoretical perspectives that help explain human behavior?
(8) - ✔✔1. Systems Theory
2. Conflict Theory
3. Rational Choice Theory
4. Social Constructionist Theory
5. Psychodynamic Theory
6. Developmental Theory
7. Social Behavioral Theory
8. Humanistic Perspective
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,Systems Theory - ✔✔Multiple parts in an environment are interrelated where each part
impacts all other parts as well as the system as a whole.
Conflict Theory - ✔✔The idea that conflict between competing interests, resources, and
power is the basic motivating force of social change and society in general
Rational Choice Theory - ✔✔By nature, people are rationale and goal oriented and will
try to maximize rewards and minimize costs. Behavior is explained when viewed
through self-interest.
Social Constructionist Theory - ✔✔Social reality is created when clients develop a
common understanding of their world through social interaction. They are influenced
by social processes that are grounded in customs, as well as cultural and historical
contexts.
(BLM, Nationalists, Native American, etc.)
Psychodynamic Theory - ✔✔Human behavior is motivated by conscious and
unconscious mental activity where experiences, particularly in developmental years, are
central. Defense mechanisms are used to avoid being overwhelmed.
Developmental Theory - ✔✔Human development is a complex interaction of biological,
psychological, and social factors. Development occurs in defined, age-related stages that
build upon one another.
Social Behavioral Theory - ✔✔Human behavior is learned when clients interact with the
environment through association, reinforcement, and imitation. Behavior and can be
changed through techniques such as classical and operant conditioning.
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, Humanistic Perspective - ✔✔Each client is responsible for their own choices and have
the capacity to change themselves. Human behavior is driven by a desire for growth,
meaning, and competence. Behaving in ways inconsistent to this causes anxiety.
Why does social development matter? - ✔✔Human beings are inherently social.
Developing competencies in this domain enhances a person's mental health, success in
work, and the ability to achieve life tasks.
In order of research development, who were the prominent theorists of developmental
research and their associated research? (5) - ✔✔1. Sigmund Freud (Psychosexual)
2. Erick Erickson (Psychosocial)
3. Jean Piaget (Cognitive)
4. Lawrence Kohlberg (Moral)
5. James Fowler (Spiritual)
Who developed the psychosocial theory of Life Stages? - ✔✔Erick Erickson
How many life stages are there in Erickson's theory? - ✔✔8
What are the 8 psychosocial stages of life and their corresponding ages? - ✔✔1. Infancy:
birth-1 year
2. Early childhood: 1-2 years
3. Preschool: 3-5 years
4. Elementary: 6-12 years
5. Adolescent: 13-20's
6. Young Adulthood: 20's -early 40's
7. Middle Adulthood: 40's-60's
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Answers 100% Pass
What does KSA stand for? - ✔✔knowledge, skills, and abilities
What is the order of the Social Work process? (6) - ✔✔1. Engagement
2. Assessment
3. Planning
4. Intervention
5. Evaluation
6. Termination
What factors influence people and their behaviors in a social environment? (5) - ✔✔1.
Individual Characteristics
2. Interpersonal Factors
3. Institutional Factors
4. Community Factors
5. Public Policy
What are individual characteristics? - ✔✔Knowledge, experiences, attitudes, beliefs,
and personality, unique to each client
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,What are interpersonal factors? - ✔✔Social support, work relationships, friendships,
and religious community
What are institutional factors? - ✔✔Rules, regulations, and informal structures in the
organizations client is involved with
(smoking, dress expectations, rules around social interactions)
What are community factors? - ✔✔Formal and informal norms and expectations based
on the social environment where a client lives
What are public policies? - ✔✔Mandated regulations and laws, typically by a
government
(wearing seat belts, not using drugs, limits on physical aggression, etc)
What are the most common theoretical perspectives that help explain human behavior?
(8) - ✔✔1. Systems Theory
2. Conflict Theory
3. Rational Choice Theory
4. Social Constructionist Theory
5. Psychodynamic Theory
6. Developmental Theory
7. Social Behavioral Theory
8. Humanistic Perspective
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,Systems Theory - ✔✔Multiple parts in an environment are interrelated where each part
impacts all other parts as well as the system as a whole.
Conflict Theory - ✔✔The idea that conflict between competing interests, resources, and
power is the basic motivating force of social change and society in general
Rational Choice Theory - ✔✔By nature, people are rationale and goal oriented and will
try to maximize rewards and minimize costs. Behavior is explained when viewed
through self-interest.
Social Constructionist Theory - ✔✔Social reality is created when clients develop a
common understanding of their world through social interaction. They are influenced
by social processes that are grounded in customs, as well as cultural and historical
contexts.
(BLM, Nationalists, Native American, etc.)
Psychodynamic Theory - ✔✔Human behavior is motivated by conscious and
unconscious mental activity where experiences, particularly in developmental years, are
central. Defense mechanisms are used to avoid being overwhelmed.
Developmental Theory - ✔✔Human development is a complex interaction of biological,
psychological, and social factors. Development occurs in defined, age-related stages that
build upon one another.
Social Behavioral Theory - ✔✔Human behavior is learned when clients interact with the
environment through association, reinforcement, and imitation. Behavior and can be
changed through techniques such as classical and operant conditioning.
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, Humanistic Perspective - ✔✔Each client is responsible for their own choices and have
the capacity to change themselves. Human behavior is driven by a desire for growth,
meaning, and competence. Behaving in ways inconsistent to this causes anxiety.
Why does social development matter? - ✔✔Human beings are inherently social.
Developing competencies in this domain enhances a person's mental health, success in
work, and the ability to achieve life tasks.
In order of research development, who were the prominent theorists of developmental
research and their associated research? (5) - ✔✔1. Sigmund Freud (Psychosexual)
2. Erick Erickson (Psychosocial)
3. Jean Piaget (Cognitive)
4. Lawrence Kohlberg (Moral)
5. James Fowler (Spiritual)
Who developed the psychosocial theory of Life Stages? - ✔✔Erick Erickson
How many life stages are there in Erickson's theory? - ✔✔8
What are the 8 psychosocial stages of life and their corresponding ages? - ✔✔1. Infancy:
birth-1 year
2. Early childhood: 1-2 years
3. Preschool: 3-5 years
4. Elementary: 6-12 years
5. Adolescent: 13-20's
6. Young Adulthood: 20's -early 40's
7. Middle Adulthood: 40's-60's
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