ASWB LCSW Exam Prep 2025
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Theories - ✔✔Are general explanations supported by evidence obtained through the
scientific method.
Psychoanalytic Theory - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
Client is a product of his past
Treatment involves dealing with repressed material in the unconscious
Personalities arise because of attempts to resolve conflicts between the unconscious
sexual and aggressive impulses and social demands to restrain these impulses
3 Levels of Awareness - ✔✔Preconscious, Conscious, Unconscious
Preconscious (3 Levels of Awareness) - ✔✔Info outside of the client's attention but
available and easy to bring to consciousness.
Conscious (3 Levels of Awareness) - ✔✔Info the client is paying attention to at any
given time.
Unconscious (3 Levels of Awareness) - ✔✔Thoughts, feelings, desires and memories of
which a client has no awareness but that influences every aspect of their day-to-day
lives.
3 Components of Personalities - ✔✔Id, Ego, Superego
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,Id (3 Components of Personalities) - ✔✔Instinctual energy, biological urges, impulses
toward survival, sex and aggression.
Unconscious.
Pleasure principle - the drive to achieve pleasure and avoid pain.
Ego (3 Components of Personalities) - ✔✔Manages conflict between Id and the real
world.
Has unconscious, preconscious or conscious parts.
Reality principle - the awareness that gratification of impulses has to be delayed in
order to accommodate the demands of the real world.
Role is to prevent the Id from gratifying its impulses in socially inappropriate ways.
Ego-Syntonic/Ego-Dystonic:
Syntonic - behaviors "insync" with ego (no guilt)
Dystonic - behaviors "dis n sync" with ego (guilty)
Determine best course of action based on info from id, reality, and the superego.
Inability to reconcile the demands of the Id, reality and superego produces conflict that
leads to a state of psychic distress known as anxiety.
Ego strength - ability to deal with demands of id, reality and superego.
Superego (3 Components of Personalities) - ✔✔The moral component of personality,
learned from parents and society, causes clients to feel guilty.
Psychosexual Stages of Development - ✔✔Freud believed there to be five stages of
psychosexual development: Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent and Genital. At each of these
stages, pleasure is focused on a particular part of the body. Too much or too little
pleasure in any one of these stages caused a fixation which would lead to personality or
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, psychological disorders. For example, too much pleasure in the phallic stage could lead
to obsessive masturbation and sexual dysfunction as an adult.
Oral (Stage of Development) - ✔✔Birth-12 months
Pleasure centers on mouth; sucking, biting, chewing.
If not satisfied result is excessive smoking, overeating, or dependence on others.
Anal (Stage of Development) - ✔✔Age 2 (during toilet training)
Pleasure centers on Bowel movements.
If not satisfied result is an overly controlling (anal-retentive) personality or an easily
angered (anal-expulsive) personality.
Phallic (Stage of Development) - ✔✔Age 3 to 5
Pleasure centers on Genitals.
If not satisfied result is Guilt or anxiety about sex.
Latency (Stage of Development) - ✔✔Age 5 to Puberty
Pleasure centers on Sexuality is latent, or dormant, during this period.
No fixations at this stage.
Genital (Stage of Development) - ✔✔Begins at puberty
Pleasure centers on The genitals; sexual urges return.
No fixations at this stage.
Fixation - ✔✔Is an inability to progress normally from one stage into another.
Oedipus complex - ✔✔A male child's sexual desire for his mother and hostility toward
his father.
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Theories - ✔✔Are general explanations supported by evidence obtained through the
scientific method.
Psychoanalytic Theory - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
Client is a product of his past
Treatment involves dealing with repressed material in the unconscious
Personalities arise because of attempts to resolve conflicts between the unconscious
sexual and aggressive impulses and social demands to restrain these impulses
3 Levels of Awareness - ✔✔Preconscious, Conscious, Unconscious
Preconscious (3 Levels of Awareness) - ✔✔Info outside of the client's attention but
available and easy to bring to consciousness.
Conscious (3 Levels of Awareness) - ✔✔Info the client is paying attention to at any
given time.
Unconscious (3 Levels of Awareness) - ✔✔Thoughts, feelings, desires and memories of
which a client has no awareness but that influences every aspect of their day-to-day
lives.
3 Components of Personalities - ✔✔Id, Ego, Superego
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,Id (3 Components of Personalities) - ✔✔Instinctual energy, biological urges, impulses
toward survival, sex and aggression.
Unconscious.
Pleasure principle - the drive to achieve pleasure and avoid pain.
Ego (3 Components of Personalities) - ✔✔Manages conflict between Id and the real
world.
Has unconscious, preconscious or conscious parts.
Reality principle - the awareness that gratification of impulses has to be delayed in
order to accommodate the demands of the real world.
Role is to prevent the Id from gratifying its impulses in socially inappropriate ways.
Ego-Syntonic/Ego-Dystonic:
Syntonic - behaviors "insync" with ego (no guilt)
Dystonic - behaviors "dis n sync" with ego (guilty)
Determine best course of action based on info from id, reality, and the superego.
Inability to reconcile the demands of the Id, reality and superego produces conflict that
leads to a state of psychic distress known as anxiety.
Ego strength - ability to deal with demands of id, reality and superego.
Superego (3 Components of Personalities) - ✔✔The moral component of personality,
learned from parents and society, causes clients to feel guilty.
Psychosexual Stages of Development - ✔✔Freud believed there to be five stages of
psychosexual development: Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent and Genital. At each of these
stages, pleasure is focused on a particular part of the body. Too much or too little
pleasure in any one of these stages caused a fixation which would lead to personality or
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, psychological disorders. For example, too much pleasure in the phallic stage could lead
to obsessive masturbation and sexual dysfunction as an adult.
Oral (Stage of Development) - ✔✔Birth-12 months
Pleasure centers on mouth; sucking, biting, chewing.
If not satisfied result is excessive smoking, overeating, or dependence on others.
Anal (Stage of Development) - ✔✔Age 2 (during toilet training)
Pleasure centers on Bowel movements.
If not satisfied result is an overly controlling (anal-retentive) personality or an easily
angered (anal-expulsive) personality.
Phallic (Stage of Development) - ✔✔Age 3 to 5
Pleasure centers on Genitals.
If not satisfied result is Guilt or anxiety about sex.
Latency (Stage of Development) - ✔✔Age 5 to Puberty
Pleasure centers on Sexuality is latent, or dormant, during this period.
No fixations at this stage.
Genital (Stage of Development) - ✔✔Begins at puberty
Pleasure centers on The genitals; sexual urges return.
No fixations at this stage.
Fixation - ✔✔Is an inability to progress normally from one stage into another.
Oedipus complex - ✔✔A male child's sexual desire for his mother and hostility toward
his father.
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