DSM-5, the Slide Show

DSM-5, the Slide Show

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On the lookout for different ways to get all necessary social work licensing exam information into your head? Already using podcasts, practice tests, textbooks, and Pinterest charts? Here's another source of info--DSM-5 info in this case: the collection of DSM-5 slides on SlideShare. Different slide-makers have stressed different aspects of the changes between DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5. Most have covered the essentials. So, pick your patience level, and get clicking through. You never know what vital tidbit you'll pick up.

The first here zips through in 30 slides; the second ambles through in 81. But just think, speed read 81 slides and you're that much more prepared for the exam. Or, at very least, somewhat clearer about what you don't know.






Learning DSM-5

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DSM-5 has arrived. Now that the change has happened on the ASWB exam, time to buckle down and learn the thing. As ever, the web is eager to help out. We've already linked to these info-filled pages:
But maybe you don't feel like reading. Okay, here's SWTP's DSM-5 YouTube collection. Includes lots of different people going over lots of DSM-5 facts. Also take a look at this webinar series from Magellan Healthcare. It's dry as dry toast, but seems to cover everything. Also, coming up later this month--for NASW members only--here's a lunchtime webinar.

There are plenty more presentations out there, not all of them free. If you find something and like it, please share in comments. In the meantime, happy DSM-5 learning!

Farewell, DSM-IV-TR

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This day in history, the last time DSM-IV-TR appears on the social work licensing exam. Will you miss it?

Mark the moment with a song, or a drink, or just ignore it. Any of those will do. Love it or hate it, if you prepared for the ASWB exam using the big, gray DSM, you're not likely to forget it. Farewell, DSM-IV-TR.