Free ASWB Exam Help

If there's one major theme on these pages, it's that you can prepare for the social work licensing exam without spending an amount of money you're going to regret. It used to be exam prep could cost hundreds of dollars. That paid for audio CDs, for thick volumes of materials, and for practice exams. Now, with all the free resources on the web, that's just not the case. Audio comes free via a variety of amazing podcasts. Books full of info are made more-or-less obsolete by sites you know well, such as Wikipedia. There are lots of free practice exam questions scattered around the web, and if you want to take full-length real-time practice exams (recommended), it can cost as little as twenty-something dollars per complete exam (that's the case, at least, with SWTP's exams purchased with the bundle discount or with a coupon code).

Here are some of the sites mentioned above--and a couple of others for your clicking, studying, passing pleasure:

The Social Work Podcast

Social Work Test Prep

Portal:Psychology - Wikipedia

inSocialWork Podcast Series - UB Social Work

Psychology Basics 101

Social Work Today - Eye on Ethics:

Code of Ethics - National Association of Social Workers

Good luck with the exam!

Social Work Exam and Culture: Maladi Moun

Continuing with DSM-5's culture-bound syndromes, here's maladi moun.

Here's a definition from Medscape:

Aka "humanly caused illness" found in Haitian communities, is seen as an explanation for a number of medical and psychiatric symptoms. It is thought that illness is literally "sent" by others out of envy and hatred and can describe psychosis, depressive symptoms, and even academic or social problems.

There are other, similar conditions, per the World Health Org:

Haitians divide illnesses into several broad categories, including: maladi Bondye (God’s disease, or those of “natural” origin), maladi peyi (“country”, or common, short-term ailments), maladi moun fè mal (magic spells sent because of human greed), and those of supernatural origin, maladi lwa (‘disease of God’) and maladi Satan (Satan’s or “sent” sicknesses)  

The Dictionary of Psychology entry on the topic is here. As of this writing, that about does it for what the web has to offer. But it should be more than enough to field a question about maladi moun on the social work licensing exam. Good luck!