LCSW (Bootcamp) Exam Study Guide
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Symmetrical relationship
✔✔two have equal power
Complementary relationship
✔✔one-up/one down position, unequal power
Thought broadcasting
✔✔The belief that others can be aware of hear one's thoughts
What is most important for group functioning?
✔✔Participants level of functioning, often can be a wide range of
diagnoses, family status, intellectual capacity and functioning
Ex. Suicide patient, inexperienced student SW
✔✔In situations where a SW requires expert information that he/she lacks
it is always prudent to see supervisor guidance
Systems Theory
✔✔1. Framework for analyzing problems
2. Interaction among parts of the system - all parts affect the the system
3. Focus on environment
,Homeostasis
✔✔Steady state order necessary for movement
Equifinality
✔✔capacity to receive identical results from different initial condition
Psychosocial Approach
✔✔- Used past experiences to understand present action
Ego Psychology
✔✔Assessment of ego functions, reality testing, ego strengths/weaknesses
Self Psychology
✔✔Mirroring - validates child's sense of self
Idealization - identifies with someone more capable
Twinship - sense of belonging
Alfred Adler
✔✔Holistic theory on personality, striving for perfection
Institutionalized discrimination
✔✔discriminatory attitudes that can occur on a institutional level
,Way to evaluate progress in treatment
✔✔Compare client's current level of functioning in relation to original
treatment goals
Family life cycle crisis
✔✔SW helps family resolve crisis by addressing life cycle issues and
preparing family to manage future problems
Structural family therapy
✔✔1. Stresses family organization, worker joins the family in an effort
restructure it
2. Boundaries
Paradoxical Instruction
✔✔prescribe symptomatic behavior so client realizes they can control it,
use strength of resistance to change to move towards goals
Prison culture
✔✔Environmental influence does not promote participant self-disclosure
Court mandated services
✔✔Provide limitations of disclosure in writing, protects confidentiality of
child and addresses mom's request
Lack of community awareness of a problem
✔✔Use multiple media communication techniques to bring awareness
, First task of multidisciplinary team
✔✔discuss, clarify, and commit to overall purpose
Principle goal of an agency
✔✔Goal of improved services, computer program can help standardize
information that could in turn be used to evaluate services
MDD
✔✔at least 2 weeks of symptoms
First task with involuntary clients
✔✔Meet parent's needs
First step to analyze new social welfare policy that may affect the
community
✔✔research history of problems that led to policies
Only time you can present client's info without consent
✔✔Request from SW's supervisor
Middle childhood life crisis
✔✔Industry vs. inferiority, 6 to 12
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