The Licensed Clinical Social Worker Exam

Risk assessment methods shows up in the Assessment and Diagnosis section of the ASWB exam outline. Here's more than you need to know for...

 Take a look at the latest ASWB Exam Handbook for some new additions coming to the social work licensing exam. If you've taken the exam...

One of the questions that comes up again and again regarding the LCSW exam is also a very basic one: what score do you need to pass? The ans...

When is bad behavior just bad behavior, and when does it cross the line into being clinically significant? Let's take a look at the DSM ...

There's more to effective exam prep than cramming lots of information into your head. This is especially true for the LCSW exam, which t...

Let's visit Cluster B personality disorders. You know ones. The dramatic, emotional, erratic group: antisocial, borderline, narcissistic...

Play therapy is what it sounds like. Instead of talk being the currency of treatment, clients and therapist engage in play, exploring though...

It's nice to have some help as you're preparing to pass the licensing exam. Maybe lots of help. It's a big exam with potential c...

Knowing the NASW Code of Ethics means knowing the entire NASW Code of Ethics. To be prepared for the clinical social work exam, it's ...

If you didn't know, you wouldn't notice, but the Association of Social Work Boards (the ASWB)--the people who write and administer t...

To pass the licensing exam, you have to have a good grasp on the NASW Code of Ethics. And to pass it after January 1st, 2018, you have to kn...

Family systems theory may or may not show up on the licensed clinical social work exam. And you may never practice family therapy. But the l...

Schizoaffective disorder readily lends itself to close-call differential diagnosis questions and is a natural favorite for exam writers. A q...

Reality therapy (RT) was developed in the 1960s by William Glasser. Glasser's view is that people suffer from the human condition rather...

The majority of ethics questions on the LCSW exam are likely to be drawn from the first sections of the NASW Code of Ethics. Informed consen...

Here's an essential piece of the NASW Code of Ethics, a favorite of exam writers--section 1.03, Informed Consent. In six quick paragraph...

NPD has been thrown around in the news a lot lately. Does that make it any more likely to show up on the social work licensing exam? Hard to...

This blog contains lots of information that might help you on social work licensing exam, but it's only the beginning. There's much,...

Exam item writers live in the same world that you do and read the same headlines. Don't be too surprised to see items in future versions...

There's just no way to successfully make your way through the social work licensing exam without having a good working knowledge of the ...

Schizophrenia will doubtless come up for social workers employed in clinic settings. That means it's one of the diagnoses that you may f...

New in DSM-5, autism spectrum disorder covers a wide array of symptoms. It's wise to review them ahead of sitting for the social work li...

Panic disorder can be summed up in four words: Recurrent unexpected panic attacks. But there's more to it than that. First, what's a...

The questions in the mental status exam include all the basic of social work assessment. While the MSE's lack of full exploration into t...

To meet criteria for bipolar I disorder, a manic episode is required--it may be followed by a hypomanic or major depressive episode. (For bi...

If you've encountered schizoaffective disorder in your work  with clients, questions about the diagnosis on the licensing exam shouldn...

Attachment Theory, conceived by John Bowlby and furthered by Mary Ainsworth, explores the centrality of attachment bonds in human developmen...

Some people learn best via text, others via charts and images, still others like to listen their way to knowledge. Everyone can benefit from...

It seems that straightforward knowledge questions have been phased out of the social work licensing exam over time. You're not likely to...

Let's dig a little deeper into one of the free exam prep resources linked in the previous post . Frederic Reamer, PhD's Social Work ...