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SOCIAL WORK LICENSING EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED
(2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Case Manager - ANS ✓SW involved in locating services and assisting their
clients to access those services.
Educator - ANS ✓SW involved in teaching people about resources and how to
develop particular skills such as budgeting, the caring discipline of children,
effective communication, the meaning of medical diagnosis, and the prevention
of violence.
Facilitator - ANS ✓SW is involved in gathering groups of people together for a
variety of purposes including community development, self-advocacy, political
organization, and policy change. Social Workers are involved as group therapists
and tasks group leaders.
Organizer - ANS ✓SW is involved in many levels of community organization and
action including economic development, union organization, and research and
policy specialists.
Manager - ANS ✓SW, because of their expertise in a wide variety of applications,
are well suited to work as managers and supervisors in almost any setting.
Medical Social Worker: Setting=Hospital - ANS ✓-Primary role is to develop
safe discharge plans before discharging patients (referral and linking to
resources)
-Focus on short-term community reintegration
-Psych-education about illness and treatment
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-Collaboration with medical team
Crisis Social Worker: Crisis Intervention - ANS ✓-Assist the person in distress
to resolve immediate problem and regain emotional equilibrium=GOAL IN FIRST
SESSION, EMPHASIS ON COPING MECHANISMS
-Crisis intervention not long term treatment
-Assessment of suicidal ideations and homicidal ideations
-Assess health and mental health especially psychosis
-Referrals for immediate care (police, hospital ER, etc...)
Community Organization Social Worker - ANS ✓-NOT direct practice, indirect
practice
-SW role is to work WITH THE community, not directly for them
-No individual counseling or family counseling
-Empower members to strengthen community to prevent future dilemmas.
-Members must have a COMMON INTEREST-KW's consensus, agreements
-Advocate for disadvantaged
-ADVOCACY and social justice.
-In any circumstance, when client can do something for themselves, but with
support, that is the right answer!
School Social Worker - ANS ✓-Issues that affect the learning of the student
-mental health, parents, bullying, abuse/neglect, cultural differences.
Executive Directors - ANS ✓-Create policies, pursue funding, strategic planning
for organizations
-Works with the Board of Directors
-DOES NOT manage staff; refer to direct supervisors for staff intervention.
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DSM 5: CHANGES - ANS ✓-Note DURATION/ONSET of symptoms (Ex: Major
Depressive Disorder has to be 2 weeks; if following a trauma, it could be
adjustment disorder up to 6 months)
-NO 4 Axis or GAF score
-Instead, specifiers of varying intensity/components i.e. bipolar has with anxious
distress specifier instead of GAD and bipolar.
Intellectual Disabilities (instead of mental retardation/developmental
disability) - ANS ✓-Deficit in intellectual functions, adaptive functions, onset
during developmental period.
-Diagnosed with clinical assessment and standardized testing
Autism Spectrum Disorder - ANS ✓-Qualitative impairment in social
interaction, communication, restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of
behavior, interest and activities.
-No eye contact, unaware of others, perseverative play and strong reaction to
minor changes.
ADHD - ANS ✓Persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity
that interferes with or development as characterized by Inattention and/or
Hyperactivity that has persisted for MORE THAN 6 MONTHS.
Schizophrenia Spectrum - ANS ✓Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized
thinking (speech), catatonia, negative symptoms.
Delusional Disorder - ANS ✓-Presence of delusions for A MONTH OR LONGER. -
Criteria for schizophrenia has not been met
-Functioning is not markedly affected, brief manic or major depressive moods if
any
Brief Psychotic Disorder - ANS ✓-Presence of 1 OR MORE: delusions,
hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganized or catatonic.
-Duration of episode is AT LEAST ONE DAY, BUT NOT MORE THAN A MONTH.
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-Disturbance not better explained by major depressive disorder or bipolar
disorder.
Schizophreniform Disorder - ANS ✓-TWO OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING:
delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic
behavior, negative symptoms.
-Episodes lasts AT LEAST 1 MONTH, BUT LESS THAN 6 MONTHS
-Schizoaffective disorder and depressive or bipolar have been ruled out.
Schizophrenia - ANS ✓TWO OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: delusions,
hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior,
negative symptoms
-Above symptoms present for A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF TIME DURING A 1
MONTH PERIOD.
-Level of functioning in one or more major areas is markedly below
-Continuous signs of the disturbance persist for AT LEAST 6 MONTHS
Schizoaffective Disorder - ANS ✓-Uninterrupted period of illness during which
there is a major mood episode concurrent with Criterion A of Schizophrenia.
-Delusions or hallucinations for 2 OR MORE WEEKS in the absence of a major
mood episode.
-Symptoms that meet criteria for a major mood episode are present for a
MAJORITY OF THE TIME.
Bipolar I - ANS ✓Manic episode lasting at least A WEEK. Major depressive
episode present during 2-WEEK PERIOD.
Bipolar II - ANS ✓-Meets criteria for Hypomanic Episode (4 DAYS) AND MAJOR
DEPRESSIVE EPISODE.
-Never been a manic episode
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