General Exam
The number of questions that will be on an ASWB exam
What is 170?
A system of moral principles and perceptions about right versus wrong the resulting philosophy of conduct that is practiced by an individual, group, profession or culture.
What is ethics?
The first step required for recommending treatment for a client
What is reviewing level of care?
Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganized behavior and negative symptoms
What is schizophrenia?
Two main values - system needs to provide resources that allow for dignity and individuality
What is systems theory?
Length of time you have to take the exam
What is four hours?
The customs, standards of conduct and principles considered desirable by a culture, a group of people, or an individual
What are values?
When a client forces themselves not to think about the situation
What is repression?
Inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity
What is attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
Addresses the person in their environment, includes the ideas of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
What is ecological systems perspective/theory?
The way the questions are formatted
What is multiple choice?
The individual, couple, family, group, organization or community that seeks or receives social work services
What is client?
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
What are the stages of dying?
Aggressive behavior, destructive behavior, deceitful behavior, and violation of rules
What is conduct disorder?
A relationship between a stimulus and response is unlearned or prewired, and the antecedents are emphasized
What is classical model of conditioning?
We look to these words for guidance, "Best, next, least, most, first, not"
What are qualifying words?
A situation that occur when two or more moral values seem to be equally valid but contradictory and the individual is required to make the best possible choice from among them.
What is ethical dilemma?
Specifiers that are commonly used to rate the severity of a clinical disorder
What is moderate, severe, and in (partial) remission?
Being easily startled or frightened, always being on guard, self-destructive/risk-taking behavior, trouble sleeping, trouble concentrating, irritability, and overwhelming guilty or shame
What is PTSD?
Kohlberg's three main groups of stages for moral development
Pre-conventional morality (4y-10y), conventional morality (10y-13y), and post-conventional morality (13y+)
Number of topic parts on the exam
What is four?
Differences in and among societal groups based on race and/or ethnicity, gender, age, physical/mental abilities, sexual orientation, religion, size and other distinguishing characteristics
What is diversity?
Not performing additional duties outside of your scope of practice, not providing personal information to clients, setting strong rules/expectations for interactions with co-workers and clients
What are professional boundaries?
Efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, pattern of intense and unstable relationships, distorted and unstable self-image or sense of self, impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, intense and highly changeable moods
What is borderline personality disorder?
Self-actualization, esteem, love and belonging, safety needs, and physiological needs
What are Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?