ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
LMSW Exam Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers for Accuracy
AASPIRINS
✓✓ A: acknowledge & assess
S: start where the client is
P: protect Life (preventing danger to self and others)
I: informed Consent
R: rule out medical conditions, send to Dr. if medical
I: intoxication (don't treat if intoxicated)
N: non-judgmental
S: support self-determination
For "Best"/"Worst" or "MOST reasonable" questions
AREAFI
✓✓ What to do "FIRST" or "NEXT":
A: Acknowledge/Assess feelings
R: Refer
E: Educate
A: Advocate
F: Facilitate
I: Intervene
Levels of cognition
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
✓✓ knowledge (teaching facts, theories, etc)
comprehension
application
analysis
synthesis (creating something new)
evaluation (judging quality)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
✓✓ Physiological
Safety
Love/belonging
Esteem
Self-actualization
Types of groups
✓✓ Shared problem, Counseling, Activity
self help, natural group, closed group, open group, structured,
reference, crisis
Individual self-actualization occurs through...
✓✓ - release of feelings that block social performance
- support from others
- orientation to reality and check out own reality with others
- reappraisal of self
Bowenian Family Therapy
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
✓✓ change through understanding multigenerational
dynamics
-driven to achieve balance of internal and external
differentiation
Logotherapy
✓✓ change through finding meaning in life, understanding
purpose
Problem solving therapy (aka Task Centered)
✓✓ change through supporting client to take actions to address
problems; client defined problems
-Short term
-Good for lower functioning, schizophrenia, homeless
Dialectical Behavior theory
✓✓ Aims to change behavioral, emotional, and thinking
patterns associated with dysfunction
-teaches mindfulness, suicidal behavior, emotional regulation,
interpersonal effectiveness
• Good for Borderline Personality Disorder
Narrative therapy
✓✓ Change occurs by externalizing problem and creating a new
narrative or story, which emphasizes the client's competencies
and strengths.
-Problem separate of client, externalize the problem
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
Feminist Therapy
✓✓ Change through recognizing disempowering social forces
and empowering client.
-Good for eating disorders.
Emotional Triangulation
✓✓ Network of relationship between 3 people. Stable until
anxiety starts between dyad, then 3rd party is used to reduce
anxiety.
structual family therapy
✓✓ SW engages family in restructuring; boundaries are
determined with Interpersonal, boundaries w/ outside world,
hierarchal organization of the family
Interpersonal family structure
✓✓ Family is defined. Promoted differentiation and autonomy
Boundaries of the outside world (Structural family therapy)
✓✓ Defines family. Must be permeable enough to maintain
well functioning open system
hierarchal organization (Structural family therapy)
✓✓ in all families and cultures. Maintained generationally;
parent-child roles, rights, obligations, etc.
Strategic Family Therapy
LMSW Exam Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers for Accuracy
AASPIRINS
✓✓ A: acknowledge & assess
S: start where the client is
P: protect Life (preventing danger to self and others)
I: informed Consent
R: rule out medical conditions, send to Dr. if medical
I: intoxication (don't treat if intoxicated)
N: non-judgmental
S: support self-determination
For "Best"/"Worst" or "MOST reasonable" questions
AREAFI
✓✓ What to do "FIRST" or "NEXT":
A: Acknowledge/Assess feelings
R: Refer
E: Educate
A: Advocate
F: Facilitate
I: Intervene
Levels of cognition
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
✓✓ knowledge (teaching facts, theories, etc)
comprehension
application
analysis
synthesis (creating something new)
evaluation (judging quality)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
✓✓ Physiological
Safety
Love/belonging
Esteem
Self-actualization
Types of groups
✓✓ Shared problem, Counseling, Activity
self help, natural group, closed group, open group, structured,
reference, crisis
Individual self-actualization occurs through...
✓✓ - release of feelings that block social performance
- support from others
- orientation to reality and check out own reality with others
- reappraisal of self
Bowenian Family Therapy
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
✓✓ change through understanding multigenerational
dynamics
-driven to achieve balance of internal and external
differentiation
Logotherapy
✓✓ change through finding meaning in life, understanding
purpose
Problem solving therapy (aka Task Centered)
✓✓ change through supporting client to take actions to address
problems; client defined problems
-Short term
-Good for lower functioning, schizophrenia, homeless
Dialectical Behavior theory
✓✓ Aims to change behavioral, emotional, and thinking
patterns associated with dysfunction
-teaches mindfulness, suicidal behavior, emotional regulation,
interpersonal effectiveness
• Good for Borderline Personality Disorder
Narrative therapy
✓✓ Change occurs by externalizing problem and creating a new
narrative or story, which emphasizes the client's competencies
and strengths.
-Problem separate of client, externalize the problem
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
Feminist Therapy
✓✓ Change through recognizing disempowering social forces
and empowering client.
-Good for eating disorders.
Emotional Triangulation
✓✓ Network of relationship between 3 people. Stable until
anxiety starts between dyad, then 3rd party is used to reduce
anxiety.
structual family therapy
✓✓ SW engages family in restructuring; boundaries are
determined with Interpersonal, boundaries w/ outside world,
hierarchal organization of the family
Interpersonal family structure
✓✓ Family is defined. Promoted differentiation and autonomy
Boundaries of the outside world (Structural family therapy)
✓✓ Defines family. Must be permeable enough to maintain
well functioning open system
hierarchal organization (Structural family therapy)
✓✓ in all families and cultures. Maintained generationally;
parent-child roles, rights, obligations, etc.
Strategic Family Therapy
