Monday, October 1, 2012
License Exam: Practice Questions
ASWB License Exam Practice Questions
Quizzes from SW Exam Zone
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1. QUESTION: Your client has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and has been prescribed an antipsychotic drug - a phenothiazine called Thorazine (Chlorpromazine). Which of the following side-effects is the client MOST LIKELY to experience as a result of taking this medication?
A. Clouded consciousness.
B. Drowsiness.
C. Agitation.
D. Dizziness.
ANSWER:
B is correct: Antipsychptic drugs are also called "major tranquilizers." Thorazine (or Chlorpromazine) will cause sedation and drowsiness in about 40 percent of people, especially during the first two weeks. The other sjde effects may occur when taking phenothiazines but in very small percentages (under 10%).
2. QUESTION: You are conducting an initial session of family therapy with your new clients. The mother tells the daughter that she is the cause of the family's problems. What would be the FIRST APPROPRIATE action?
A. ask the daughter to step outside
B. reschedule a session with the mother and father
C. ask the mother about her feelings
D. ask the father about his opinion
ANSWER:
C is the first appropriate action to take. A family is a unit and therefore should not exclude the daughter from sessions. When family therapy is appropriate, the family functions together and must address its issues as a whole. Asking the mother to elaborate about her feelings surrounding her statement will help the family to clarify its challenges so they can address them. A father was not discussed in the question and must not be assumed to be a member of this family, as families come in all types of configurations.
This answer is a good example of how to use the Social Work Intervention Model / Problem-Solving Method:
ENGAGE >; COLLECT INFO > ASSESS / DIAGNOSE > SET GOALS and PLAN TREATMENT > EVALUATE > TERMINATE. In this stage of the treatment, social workers engage and collect info in order to make an assessment of the family's needs.
3. QUESTION: The reliability coefficient of a set of scores is 0.75. What does this coefficient mean?
A. 25% of variability is due to true score differences
B. 75% of variability is due to true score differences
ANSWER:
B is the correct answer. In statistics, reliability is the consistency of a measure. A measure is said to have a high reliability if it produces consistent results under consistent conditions. For example, measurements of people’s height and weight. Reliability does not imply validity. That is, a reliable measure that is measuring something consistently, may not be measuring what you want to be measuring. Reliability theory shows that the variance of obtained scores is simply the sum of the variance of true scores plus the variance of errors of measurement[5]. The reliability coefficient
provides an index of the relative influence of true and error scores on attained test scores. In its general form, the reliability coefficient is defined as the ratio of true score variance to the total variance of test scores. Unfortunately, there is no way to directly observe or calculate the true score, so a variety of methods are used to estimate the reliability of a test. Some examples of the methods to estimate reliability include test-retest reliability, internal consistency reliability, and parallel-test reliability.
4. QUESTION: A client of yours has episodes of intense temper. This symptom is part of which DSM-IV-TR diagnosis?
A. Borderline Personality Disorder
B. Antisocial Personality Disorder
C. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
D. Dependent Personality Disorder
ANSWER:
The answer is A. The DSM criteria for diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is indicated by 5 or more symptoms related to a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotions/affects, such as number 8: inappropriate, intense anger. Other symptoms deal with fear of abandonment, impulsive self-damaging behaviors, suicidal threats and gestures, and chronic feelings of emptiness. People with BPD may have a tendency to themselves and others as all good or all bad, with no grey areas; this is termed “splitting.”
5. QUESTION:
ANSWER:
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NOTE: Answers are displayed in the same color font as the background, in order to hide them as you try to answer the question on your own. Select the paragraph under the heading "ANSWER:" in order to read the answer as highlighted text.
1. QUESTION: Your client has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and has been prescribed an antipsychotic drug - a phenothiazine called Thorazine (Chlorpromazine). Which of the following side-effects is the client MOST LIKELY to experience as a result of taking this medication?
A. Clouded consciousness.
B. Drowsiness.
C. Agitation.
D. Dizziness.
ANSWER:
B is correct: Antipsychptic drugs are also called "major tranquilizers." Thorazine (or Chlorpromazine) will cause sedation and drowsiness in about 40 percent of people, especially during the first two weeks. The other sjde effects may occur when taking phenothiazines but in very small percentages (under 10%).
2. QUESTION: You are conducting an initial session of family therapy with your new clients. The mother tells the daughter that she is the cause of the family's problems. What would be the FIRST APPROPRIATE action?
A. ask the daughter to step outside
B. reschedule a session with the mother and father
C. ask the mother about her feelings
D. ask the father about his opinion
ANSWER:
C is the first appropriate action to take. A family is a unit and therefore should not exclude the daughter from sessions. When family therapy is appropriate, the family functions together and must address its issues as a whole. Asking the mother to elaborate about her feelings surrounding her statement will help the family to clarify its challenges so they can address them. A father was not discussed in the question and must not be assumed to be a member of this family, as families come in all types of configurations.
This answer is a good example of how to use the Social Work Intervention Model / Problem-Solving Method:
ENGAGE >; COLLECT INFO > ASSESS / DIAGNOSE > SET GOALS and PLAN TREATMENT > EVALUATE > TERMINATE. In this stage of the treatment, social workers engage and collect info in order to make an assessment of the family's needs.
3. QUESTION: The reliability coefficient of a set of scores is 0.75. What does this coefficient mean?
A. 25% of variability is due to true score differences
B. 75% of variability is due to true score differences
C. 25% of reliability is due to true score differences
D. 75% of reliability is due to true score differences
D. 75% of reliability is due to true score differences
B is the correct answer. In statistics, reliability is the consistency of a measure. A measure is said to have a high reliability if it produces consistent results under consistent conditions. For example, measurements of people’s height and weight. Reliability does not imply validity. That is, a reliable measure that is measuring something consistently, may not be measuring what you want to be measuring. Reliability theory shows that the variance of obtained scores is simply the sum of the variance of true scores plus the variance of errors of measurement[5]. The reliability coefficient
provides an index of the relative influence of true and error scores on attained test scores. In its general form, the reliability coefficient is defined as the ratio of true score variance to the total variance of test scores. Unfortunately, there is no way to directly observe or calculate the true score, so a variety of methods are used to estimate the reliability of a test. Some examples of the methods to estimate reliability include test-retest reliability, internal consistency reliability, and parallel-test reliability. 4. QUESTION: A client of yours has episodes of intense temper. This symptom is part of which DSM-IV-TR diagnosis?
A. Borderline Personality Disorder
B. Antisocial Personality Disorder
C. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
D. Dependent Personality Disorder
ANSWER:
The answer is A. The DSM criteria for diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is indicated by 5 or more symptoms related to a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotions/affects, such as number 8: inappropriate, intense anger. Other symptoms deal with fear of abandonment, impulsive self-damaging behaviors, suicidal threats and gestures, and chronic feelings of emptiness. People with BPD may have a tendency to themselves and others as all good or all bad, with no grey areas; this is termed “splitting.”
5. QUESTION:
ANSWER:
Friday, September 28, 2012
NPR: Gender Bias in Books -- Women, Men And Fiction
Women, Men And Fiction:
Notes On How Not To Answer Hard Questions
Listen to the StoryNothing is more vexing than a question where 10 percent of the public discussion is spent trying to answer it and 90 percent is spent arguing about whether it matters.
Such is the question of why, in many major publications, far more books by men are reviewed than books by women. Probably the best-known set of statistics comes from an organization called VIDA (Women in the Literary Arts), which has created a feature called "The Count." That feature consists of pie charts that track the number of women and men both doing the reviewing and being reviewed. For instance, in 2011, they found that The New York Review Of Books reviewed 71 female authors and 293 male authors. In The New York Times, it was 273 women and 520 men.
Those in power, sometimes unaware of their privilege, are the ones who question whether this list and these activities matter. In our very gender-ed social culture, that's men.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
License Exam: Research and Evaluation (2%)
Research and Evaluation (2%)
.. In statistics, reliability is the consistency of a measure. A measure is said to have a high reliability if it produces consistent results under consistent conditions. For example, measurements of people’s height and weight. Reliability does not imply validity. That is, a reliable measure that is measuring something consistently, may not be measuring what you want to be measuring. Reliability theory shows that the variance of obtained scores is simply the sum of the variance of true scores plus the variance of errors of measurement[5]. The reliability coefficient
provides an index of the relative influence of true and error scores on attained test scores. In its general form, the reliability coefficient is defined as the ratio of true score variance to the total variance of test scores. Unfortunately, there is no way to directly observe or calculate the true score, so a variety of methods are used to estimate the reliability of a test. Some examples of the methods to estimate reliability include test-retest reliability, internal consistency reliability, and parallel-test reliability. Monday, September 24, 2012
License Exam: Clinical Practice
Clinical Theories and Interventions
Links
- Diagnosis Can Miss ADHD in Girls
- Clinical Theories and Interventions
- Crisis Counseling elements on Psychology.About.com
Theories
Therapy / Counseling
Group Therapy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_psychotherapyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_dynamics
Behavioral Theory / Behaviorism (WATSON, SKINNER)
Behavioral Theory (Behaviorism) , Behaviorism , Behavior TherapyWe practice with human beings in their social environments, so this comment from one of the founding fathers of Behaviorism speaks volumes about the causes of human behavior, as well as methods we can employ to assist them in changing those very things that challenge them:
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select -- doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. --John Watson, 1930Behavioral theory is based on the belief that our responses to environmental stimuli shapes our behaviors. There are two major types of conditioning that produce behavior: Operant conditioning - a method of learning that occurs through rewards (reinforcements) and punishments for behavior, and Classical (Pavlovian or Respondent) Conditioning) where a stimulus is paired with a response to produce a behavior. See also Behaviorism on Wikipedia.
Major Thinkers in Behaviorism: Ivan Pavlov , B. F. Skinner , Edward Thorndike John B. Watson , Clark Hull .
REBT / Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (ELLIS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REBThttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ellis_(psychologist)
Family Therapy
Family TherapyThe family is a psychological unit, in which changes in one member affect other members and the family's functioning. Therapy usually focuses on present problems and their practical solutions, in the context of its cultural beliefs. Family therapy is inappropriate in circumstances where destructive behavior or abuse is present. See also Family Therapy on Wikipedia
Types of family therapy: Family Systems (Bowen) , Experiential (Satir, Whitaker) , Narrative (Epston, White), Strategic (Haley, Madanes), Structural (Minuchin), Solution-Focused (de Shazer) , Psychodynamic (Scharff), Communications Model (Jackson, Haley), Feminist (Bern)
Reality Therapy (GLASSER)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_therapyFeminist Therapy (BEM, MILLER, BROWN, JORDAN)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_therapyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Bem
License Exam: Supervision, Administration, and Policy (8%)
Supervision, Administration, and Policy (8%)
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