Tips for Passing the LCSW Exam

There are just a few posts on the LCSW Exam Prep Blog. One of them includes these handy seven tips for passing the LCSW exam.  The list is below, details here.

1. Know yourself and how you study best.
2. Use study guides.
3. Take several practice exams.
4. Make flash cards.
5. Know what to do FIRST/NEXT.
6. Read the question.
7. Breathe.

These make sense, provided overstudying is studiously avoided.  Study guides may not be as necessary as they were way back in 2008 before the net exploded with exam-friendly information.  Flash cards?  Sure, if  they work for you.  Practice tests?  Absolutely.  Breathing?  A plus.  Figure out what works for you and get to it.  Good luck!

LCSW Exam Help

If you usually just block these things out as you web surf, please take a moment to note the collection of LCSW exam prep-friendly blogs listed on the sidebar.  Not all are active, but in each there's something that'll get your prepared for diving into the LCSW exam (or any of the other ASWB offerings).  Three favorites:

• The Social Work Test Prep Blog
• LCSW Study Buddy
• Us, of course!

Freud's Theory of Psychosexual Development

Continuing with the best, most ASWB-exam relevant, parts of the CounsellingResource collection, here's Freud's Theory of Psychosexual Development delivered in under ten minutes.



Here's Simply Psychology tackling the same.

Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development

Another from the CounsellingResources collection, Erikson's Psychosocial Stages of Development:



Here's the same info via Wikipedia.

Five Stages of Grief

From the CounsellingResource YouTube channel, here's a quick primer on Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief.

NASW Code of Ethics: Ethical Responsibilities to the Broader Society

From the NASW Code of Ethics, last but not least:  Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Broader Society.

• 6.01 Social Welfare
• 6.02 Public Participation
• 6.03 Public Emergencies
• 6.04 Social and Political Action

NASW Code of Ethics: Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession

Just two items in this next Code of Ethics section, Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession. 

• 5.01 Integrity of the Profession
• 5.02 Evaluation and Research