SOCIAL WORK TERMS - LCSW,
CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK LICENSURE
EXAM PRACTICE EXAM WITH
CORRECT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
2025
The individual's capacity for logical thinking, intelligence, perceptiveness, and self-control over
impulses to achieve immediate gratification.
a. Ego Dystonic
b. Ego Strengths
c. Ego Syntonic
d. Empathy - CORRECT-ANSWERSb. Ego Strengths
The premise and understanding between therapist
and client that the information revealed by the client
will not be divulged to others without expressed
permission; Courts often honor this unless there is a
risk of public danger or threat to the public good.
a. Prejudice
,b. Privilege
c. Projection
d. Punishment - CORRECT-ANSWERSb. Privilege
A technique in which the social worker clarifies and shows the client what his or her feelings are
in the moment and encourages further expression and understanding of those feelings (often
through paraphrasing)
a. Punishment
b. Reflective Listening
c. Reinforcement
d. Scapegoating - CORRECT-ANSWERSb. Reflective Listening
A problem-solving process in which advice and other
helping activity is offered to an individual, group,
organization, or community that is faced with a
problem.
a. Advocacy
b. Consultation
,c. Countertransference
d. Ego Dystonic - CORRECT-ANSWERSb. Consultation
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.
a. Ego Dystonic
b. Ego Strengths
c. Ego Syntonic
d. Empathy - CORRECT-ANSWERSc. Ego Syntonic
A set of conscious or unconscious emotional
reactions to a client experienced by a therapist; These
feelings usually originate in the therapist's own
developmental conflicts or past.
a. Countertransference
b. Transference
, c. Privilege
d. Supervision - CORRECT-ANSWERSa. Countertransference
A medication-induced movement disorder that
includes uncontrollable physical movements,
especially in the face, lips, and tongue, and
sometimes repetitive movements of the head, hands,
and feet.
a. Supervision
b. Tardive Dyskinesia
c. Transference
d. Triangulation - CORRECT-ANSWERSb. Tardive Dyskinesia
The behaviors and personality characteristics that are
attached to people because of their sex, often
inaccurately.
a. Extinction
b. Gender Roles
CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK LICENSURE
EXAM PRACTICE EXAM WITH
CORRECT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
2025
The individual's capacity for logical thinking, intelligence, perceptiveness, and self-control over
impulses to achieve immediate gratification.
a. Ego Dystonic
b. Ego Strengths
c. Ego Syntonic
d. Empathy - CORRECT-ANSWERSb. Ego Strengths
The premise and understanding between therapist
and client that the information revealed by the client
will not be divulged to others without expressed
permission; Courts often honor this unless there is a
risk of public danger or threat to the public good.
a. Prejudice
,b. Privilege
c. Projection
d. Punishment - CORRECT-ANSWERSb. Privilege
A technique in which the social worker clarifies and shows the client what his or her feelings are
in the moment and encourages further expression and understanding of those feelings (often
through paraphrasing)
a. Punishment
b. Reflective Listening
c. Reinforcement
d. Scapegoating - CORRECT-ANSWERSb. Reflective Listening
A problem-solving process in which advice and other
helping activity is offered to an individual, group,
organization, or community that is faced with a
problem.
a. Advocacy
b. Consultation
,c. Countertransference
d. Ego Dystonic - CORRECT-ANSWERSb. Consultation
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.
a. Ego Dystonic
b. Ego Strengths
c. Ego Syntonic
d. Empathy - CORRECT-ANSWERSc. Ego Syntonic
A set of conscious or unconscious emotional
reactions to a client experienced by a therapist; These
feelings usually originate in the therapist's own
developmental conflicts or past.
a. Countertransference
b. Transference
, c. Privilege
d. Supervision - CORRECT-ANSWERSa. Countertransference
A medication-induced movement disorder that
includes uncontrollable physical movements,
especially in the face, lips, and tongue, and
sometimes repetitive movements of the head, hands,
and feet.
a. Supervision
b. Tardive Dyskinesia
c. Transference
d. Triangulation - CORRECT-ANSWERSb. Tardive Dyskinesia
The behaviors and personality characteristics that are
attached to people because of their sex, often
inaccurately.
a. Extinction
b. Gender Roles
