This California LCSW Law & Ethics Exam covers California clinical social work laws and professional ethics, including unprofessional conduct, confidentiality, clinical records, scope of practice, informed consent, fees, referrals, termination of services, client access to records, sexual conduct, child abuse reporting, conflicts of interest, consultation, self-determination, and duty to warn. It includes actual exam questions with verified answers on privacy, license fraud, clinical incompetence, gross negligence, professional boundaries, fee disclosure, referral remuneration, recordkeeping, client abandonment, payment practices, barter, private practice, access to records, sexual misconduct involving former therapists, couple and family services, mandated child abuse reporting, Tarasoff duties, and legal versus ethical responsibilities. The material is designed for focused preparation for the California LCSW Law and Ethics Examination and professional social work licensing requirements.
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LCSW TEST PREP
CALIFORNIA-- LAW
AND ETHICS EXAM
QUESTIONS VERIFIED
AND PROVIDED WITH A+
GRADED ANSWERS |
LATEST UPDATED 2026
, Soliciting private info beyond what is essential for providing services: ethical or
legal?
ETHICAL ISSUE: Privacy + Confidential
Maintaining clinical records: ethical or legal?
LEGAL and ETHICAL
Securing a license/registration by fraud: ethical or legal?
LEGAL: Unprofessional conduct (conditions for Suspension, Revocation of
license)
Incompetence in performance of clin SW: ethical or legal?
LEGAL: Unprofessional conduct (conditions for Suspension, Revocation of
license)
Act or omission that falls sufficiently below standard of conduct as to
constitute gross negligence: ethical or legal?
LEGAL: Unprofessional conduct (conditions for Suspension, Revocation of
license)
Sexual relationships: ethical or legal?
LEGAL and ETHICAL