Pass the ASWB Clinical Exam!

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Preparing for the Exam

• Overview of exam content and structure
• Study Strategies
• Managing test anxiety

Phases in the Helping Process: What to Do First and Next

• Engagement and rapport-building
• Exploring and validating feelings
• Gathering information, goal setting, and treatment planning
• Intervention, evaluation, and termination

Human Behavior Theories, Lifespan Development, and Diversity

• Indicators of normal and abnormal human development, including physical, cognitive, sexual, spiritual, and cultural development
• Principles of attachment, the family life cycle, and parenting styles
• Systems and ecological perspectives and theories
• Issues of diversity and discrimination
• Indicators and dynamics of abuse and neglect throughout the lifespan
• Psychological defense mechanisms definitions and examples
• Population-specific concepts (gerontology, adoption, caregiving, addiction, LGBTQ+, etc.)

Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment Planning

• Taking a biopsychosocial history and gathering collateral information
• Techniques and instruments used to assess clients/client systems
• Key diagnostic criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM)
• Indicators and impact of exploitation across the lifespan (e.g., financial, immigration status, sexual trafficking)
• Red flags and risk factors of the client's/client system's danger to self and others, crisis and safety planning
• Methods to assess motivation, resistance, and readiness to change
• Common psychotropic and non-psychotropic prescriptions and over-the-counter medications and their side effects
• Theories of trauma-informed care
• Discharge, aftercare, and follow-up planning
• Basic and applied research design and methods

Psychotherapy, Clinical Interventions, and Case Management

• Building a therapeutic relationship
• Principles and techniques of interviewing (e.g., supporting, clarifying, focusing, confronting, validating, feedback, reflecting, language differences, use of interpreters, redirecting)
• The intervention process
• Psychotherapeutic theories and techniques
• Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies
• Service delivery and management of cases
• Consultation and interdisciplinary collaboration

Professional Values and Ethics

• Purpose and values of the NASW Code of Ethics
• Guiding principles for ethical dilemmas
• Professional boundaries in the social worker-client/client system relationship (e.g., power differences, conflicts of interest, etc.)
• Confidentiality
• Legal/ethical issues regarding documentation
• Research ethics (e.g., institutional review boards, use of human subjects, informed consent)
• Professional development and use of self
• Evidence-based practice
• Self-care