LICSW EXAM PREP | 552 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
2025/2026 UPDATE | 100% CORRECT.
Strategic Family Therapy Answer - Helps families discontinue reciprocal
interactions in which symptomatic behavior recurs
Structural Family Therapy Answer - Helps families understand what the rules
and roles are for each family member and how the rules were created
Sibling Therapy Answer - Helps children develop and strengthen the bonds
that exist between them so that they can provide one another needed support
Multifamily therapy Answer - Provides multiple families with mutual
understanding and allows them to exchange ideas, role play, and enact
psychodramas
Ego Answer - Reality that mediates between the Id and the SuperEgo (Freud)
Id Answer - Primitive, selfish aspect of personality; Pleasure seeking (Freud)
Super Ego Answer - Conscience; Morality; Provides motivational instincts
(Freud)
,Libido Answer - Comprised of the sexual and ego drives found in the id, libido
affects aggression and instinctual behaviors (Freud)
Neurosis Answer - When the superego imposes guilt on the ego to limit the
impulses of the id, neurosis results. Neuroses stem from childhood conflicts
that occur when the relationship between the libido and ego mechanisms
becomes unbalanced. (Freud)
Manifest Latent Dreams Answer - Distortions of life experiences in accordance
with regressive thinking processes that prevail during sleep. (Freud)
Manifest Content Answer - Formed as a composite of recent and distant
memories, this is the apparent content of the dream. Actually, it provides a
mask for events that conceal the latent meaning of the dream. (Freud)
Latent Content Answer - Underlying thoughts, dreams, and fantasies related to
the emotional reactions of early infancy, latent content gives a dream its
fundamental meaning. (Freud)
Dream Work Answer - Process whereby latent content becomes apparent.
Defense Mechanisms Answer - Although the individual is unaware of them,
these provide protection against negative feelings associated with painful
events. An unconscious process in which the ego attempts to expel anxiety-
provoking sexual and aggressive impulses from consciousness. In themselves
they are not an indication of pathology, but rather an indication of disturbance
when their cost outweighs their protective value.
Examples: Compensation, Denial, Displacement, Projection, Rationalization,
Reaction Formation, Regression, Repression, Sublimation, Suppression, Counter
Transference
,Compensation Answer - An activity viewed as rewarding is substituted for the
one that produces tension; Protection against feels of inferiority and
inadequacy stemming from real or imagined personal defects or weaknesses.
Denial Answer - A person refuses to acknowledge a situation that causes
anxiety or distress
Displacement Answer - Emotion felt toward an individual or an object is
transferred to a similar person or object
Projection Answer - An unconscious process whereby unacceptable thoughts
and behaviors found within the person are assigned to another; Ascribing a
painful idea or impulse to the external world
Rationalization Answer - Giving a behavior a socially acceptable motive; Effort
to give a logical explanation for painful unconscious material to avoid guilt and
shame
Reaction Formation Answer - Behavior opposed to unconscious desires;
Replacing in conscious awareness a painful idea or feeling with is opposite
Regression Answer - Retreat to an earlier stage of development where the
individual feels more comfortable
Repression Answer - Person forces painful perceptions, constructs, and
feelings into unconscious; determinate of all defense mechanisms
The act of obliterating material from conscious awareness
, Reversal Answer - Type of reaction formation aimed at protection from painful
thoughts/feelings
Sublimation Answer - Inappropriate social impulses are channeled into socially
acceptable behaviors; Redirecting energies of instinctual drives to generally
positive goals that are more acceptable to the ego and superego
Identification with the Aggressor Answer - A child's introjection of some
characteristic of an anxiety provoking object and assimilation of an anxiety
experience just lived through. In this, the child can transform from the
threatened person into the one making the threat.
Suppression Answer - Person undoes various levels of consciousness,
preconsciousness, or subconciousness
Counter Transference Answer - Irrational reactions therapists have towards
their clients; Worker's unconscious redirection of feelings for another person or
relationship toward the client
Transference Answer - Client's unconscious redirection of feelings for another
person toward the worker in an attempt to resolve conflicts attached with that
relationship(s)
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) Answer - Method for reducing stress
in first-responders
Conscious mind Answer - Area of cognition that individuals are fully aware of
(Freud)
2025/2026 UPDATE | 100% CORRECT.
Strategic Family Therapy Answer - Helps families discontinue reciprocal
interactions in which symptomatic behavior recurs
Structural Family Therapy Answer - Helps families understand what the rules
and roles are for each family member and how the rules were created
Sibling Therapy Answer - Helps children develop and strengthen the bonds
that exist between them so that they can provide one another needed support
Multifamily therapy Answer - Provides multiple families with mutual
understanding and allows them to exchange ideas, role play, and enact
psychodramas
Ego Answer - Reality that mediates between the Id and the SuperEgo (Freud)
Id Answer - Primitive, selfish aspect of personality; Pleasure seeking (Freud)
Super Ego Answer - Conscience; Morality; Provides motivational instincts
(Freud)
,Libido Answer - Comprised of the sexual and ego drives found in the id, libido
affects aggression and instinctual behaviors (Freud)
Neurosis Answer - When the superego imposes guilt on the ego to limit the
impulses of the id, neurosis results. Neuroses stem from childhood conflicts
that occur when the relationship between the libido and ego mechanisms
becomes unbalanced. (Freud)
Manifest Latent Dreams Answer - Distortions of life experiences in accordance
with regressive thinking processes that prevail during sleep. (Freud)
Manifest Content Answer - Formed as a composite of recent and distant
memories, this is the apparent content of the dream. Actually, it provides a
mask for events that conceal the latent meaning of the dream. (Freud)
Latent Content Answer - Underlying thoughts, dreams, and fantasies related to
the emotional reactions of early infancy, latent content gives a dream its
fundamental meaning. (Freud)
Dream Work Answer - Process whereby latent content becomes apparent.
Defense Mechanisms Answer - Although the individual is unaware of them,
these provide protection against negative feelings associated with painful
events. An unconscious process in which the ego attempts to expel anxiety-
provoking sexual and aggressive impulses from consciousness. In themselves
they are not an indication of pathology, but rather an indication of disturbance
when their cost outweighs their protective value.
Examples: Compensation, Denial, Displacement, Projection, Rationalization,
Reaction Formation, Regression, Repression, Sublimation, Suppression, Counter
Transference
,Compensation Answer - An activity viewed as rewarding is substituted for the
one that produces tension; Protection against feels of inferiority and
inadequacy stemming from real or imagined personal defects or weaknesses.
Denial Answer - A person refuses to acknowledge a situation that causes
anxiety or distress
Displacement Answer - Emotion felt toward an individual or an object is
transferred to a similar person or object
Projection Answer - An unconscious process whereby unacceptable thoughts
and behaviors found within the person are assigned to another; Ascribing a
painful idea or impulse to the external world
Rationalization Answer - Giving a behavior a socially acceptable motive; Effort
to give a logical explanation for painful unconscious material to avoid guilt and
shame
Reaction Formation Answer - Behavior opposed to unconscious desires;
Replacing in conscious awareness a painful idea or feeling with is opposite
Regression Answer - Retreat to an earlier stage of development where the
individual feels more comfortable
Repression Answer - Person forces painful perceptions, constructs, and
feelings into unconscious; determinate of all defense mechanisms
The act of obliterating material from conscious awareness
, Reversal Answer - Type of reaction formation aimed at protection from painful
thoughts/feelings
Sublimation Answer - Inappropriate social impulses are channeled into socially
acceptable behaviors; Redirecting energies of instinctual drives to generally
positive goals that are more acceptable to the ego and superego
Identification with the Aggressor Answer - A child's introjection of some
characteristic of an anxiety provoking object and assimilation of an anxiety
experience just lived through. In this, the child can transform from the
threatened person into the one making the threat.
Suppression Answer - Person undoes various levels of consciousness,
preconsciousness, or subconciousness
Counter Transference Answer - Irrational reactions therapists have towards
their clients; Worker's unconscious redirection of feelings for another person or
relationship toward the client
Transference Answer - Client's unconscious redirection of feelings for another
person toward the worker in an attempt to resolve conflicts attached with that
relationship(s)
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) Answer - Method for reducing stress
in first-responders
Conscious mind Answer - Area of cognition that individuals are fully aware of
(Freud)
