ASWB Exam Quiz: Mixed Bag I

Past quizzes have kept you anchored by being about one topic or another. Today, we'll zip around in the ASWB exam outline to find various unrelated topics to draw questions from. Are you ready to pass the social work licensing exam? This is one way to find out. (Practice tests are another, better way, but...you know that already.) Ready...set...go:

1. What is PIE theory?

2.  DSM disorder characterized by abnormal thought processes and an unstable mood. The diagnosis is made when the person has features of both schizophrenia (usually psychosis) and a mood disorder—either bipolar disorder or depression—but doesn't meet the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia or a mood disorder separately.

3. Directive, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. Compared with non-directive counseling, it is more focused and goal-directed, and departs from traditional Rogerian client-centered therapy through this use of direction, in which therapists attempt to influence clients to consider making changes, rather than engaging in non-directive therapeutic exploration.

4. A social worker asks a client to count backwards from 100. What assessment tool is the social worker most likely utilizing?

5. Name three phases in the family life cycle.

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1. The person-in-environment (PIE) perspective in social work is a practice-guiding principle that highlights the importance of understanding an individual and individual behavior in light of the environmental contexts in which that person lives and acts. The perspective has historical roots in the profession, starting with early debates over the proper attention to be given to individual or environmental change. From http://oxfordre.com/socialwork/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.001.0001/acrefore-9780199975839-e-285

2. Schizoaffective disorder.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoaffective_disorder

3. Motivational Interviewing
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_interviewing

4. The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
Example: http://www.heartinstitutehd.com/Misc/Forms/MMSE.1276128605.pdf

5. The family life cycle includes stages like "families with young children."
Flash cards here: https://quizlet.com/97407283/carter-and-mcgoldrick-stages-of-the-family-life-cycles-flash-cards/