Clinical Social Work Licensure
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Governance structures - ✔✔Governance concerns those structures, functions,
processes, and customs that exist within an organization to ensure it operates in a way
that achieves its objectives, and does so in an effective and transparent manner. It is a
framework of accountability to clients, stakeholders, and the wider community, within
which organizations make decisions and control their functions and resources to
achieve their objectives.
Social workers should advocate within and outside their agencies for adequate
resources to meet clients' needs and for resource allocation procedures that are open
and fair. When not all clients' needs can be met, an allocation procedure should be
developed that is nondiscriminatory, appropriate, and consistent.
Indicators of normal & abnormal physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral -
✔✔See supplemental material
Basic human needs - ✔✔Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs-
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,Maslow theorized that human needs could be described in the form of a hierarchy with
the base of the pyramid representing the most basic needs and the higher layers
representing loftier goals and needs. Unless the basic needs are met, a person cannot
move on to higher needs
Physiological, safety, love/belonging/ self-esteem & self-actualization
Attachment & bonding theories - ✔✔Bowlby Attachment Styles
- secure attachment
- dismissive/avoidant attachment
- fearful/avoidant attachment
- anxious/preoccupied attachment
Effect of aging on biopsychosocial functioning - ✔✔Biological aging- physical changes
Psychological aging- changes in personality, cognitive ability, adaptive ability &
perception
Social aging- changes in relationships
Gerontology - ✔✔Study of biological, cognitive, and psychological features of the aging
process
Personality theories - ✔✔William Sheldon- mesomorph & endomorph (see
supplemental material)
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,Gordon Allport- trait theory of personality development
Freud-personality was composed of the id, ego, and superego
Carl Rogers- humanistic theory of personality development
B.F Skinner- persona is developed as a result of classical or operant conditioning
Factors influencing self-image - ✔✔culture, race/ethnicity, religion, spirituality, age,
disability, trauma
Body image & its impact - ✔✔can be associated with low self-esteem, depression,
anxiety, sexual risk-taking, impaired relationship satisfaction, withdrawal from
activities where one's body may be visible & development of eating disorders
Parenting styles - ✔✔authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, uninvolved
Basic principles of human genetics - ✔✔biopsychosocial assessments, providing
assistance to clients with genetic disorders by identifying and/or developing programs
for them, providing risks-benefits counseling before a client undergoes genetic testing,
providing post-test counseling following diagnosis of a disorder, providing counseling
related to family planning & providing adoption-related counseling pertaining to
implications of an adoptee's genetic information
Family life cycle - ✔✔theories assume that, as members of a family unit, individuals
pass through different stages of life
- unattached young adult
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, - newly-married couple
- family w/young children
- family w/adolescents
- launching family
- family in later years
Systems & ecological perspectives & theories - ✔✔Systems theory- refers to the view
that human behavior is explained by the influence of the various systems to which
individuals belong
All systems are seen as possessing interrelated parts and exerting influence on each
other
ecological systems perspective- concerned with the transactions between systems;
people and families must be considered within cultural and societal contexts, which
also necessitates examining the events that have occurred in an individual's life
General systems theory is what it says it is, a number of concepts and principles that
can be applied to any systematic process of understanding any field of knoeledge.
Ecological theory is (mostly) a systematic approach to understanding the interactions of
life and the physical environment.Nov 16, 2020
Strengths-based & resiliency theories - ✔✔Strength's perspective- approach to social
work that puts the strengths and resources of people, communities, and their
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Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
100% Pass
Governance structures - ✔✔Governance concerns those structures, functions,
processes, and customs that exist within an organization to ensure it operates in a way
that achieves its objectives, and does so in an effective and transparent manner. It is a
framework of accountability to clients, stakeholders, and the wider community, within
which organizations make decisions and control their functions and resources to
achieve their objectives.
Social workers should advocate within and outside their agencies for adequate
resources to meet clients' needs and for resource allocation procedures that are open
and fair. When not all clients' needs can be met, an allocation procedure should be
developed that is nondiscriminatory, appropriate, and consistent.
Indicators of normal & abnormal physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral -
✔✔See supplemental material
Basic human needs - ✔✔Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs-
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY GRACE AMELIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
,Maslow theorized that human needs could be described in the form of a hierarchy with
the base of the pyramid representing the most basic needs and the higher layers
representing loftier goals and needs. Unless the basic needs are met, a person cannot
move on to higher needs
Physiological, safety, love/belonging/ self-esteem & self-actualization
Attachment & bonding theories - ✔✔Bowlby Attachment Styles
- secure attachment
- dismissive/avoidant attachment
- fearful/avoidant attachment
- anxious/preoccupied attachment
Effect of aging on biopsychosocial functioning - ✔✔Biological aging- physical changes
Psychological aging- changes in personality, cognitive ability, adaptive ability &
perception
Social aging- changes in relationships
Gerontology - ✔✔Study of biological, cognitive, and psychological features of the aging
process
Personality theories - ✔✔William Sheldon- mesomorph & endomorph (see
supplemental material)
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,Gordon Allport- trait theory of personality development
Freud-personality was composed of the id, ego, and superego
Carl Rogers- humanistic theory of personality development
B.F Skinner- persona is developed as a result of classical or operant conditioning
Factors influencing self-image - ✔✔culture, race/ethnicity, religion, spirituality, age,
disability, trauma
Body image & its impact - ✔✔can be associated with low self-esteem, depression,
anxiety, sexual risk-taking, impaired relationship satisfaction, withdrawal from
activities where one's body may be visible & development of eating disorders
Parenting styles - ✔✔authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, uninvolved
Basic principles of human genetics - ✔✔biopsychosocial assessments, providing
assistance to clients with genetic disorders by identifying and/or developing programs
for them, providing risks-benefits counseling before a client undergoes genetic testing,
providing post-test counseling following diagnosis of a disorder, providing counseling
related to family planning & providing adoption-related counseling pertaining to
implications of an adoptee's genetic information
Family life cycle - ✔✔theories assume that, as members of a family unit, individuals
pass through different stages of life
- unattached young adult
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, - newly-married couple
- family w/young children
- family w/adolescents
- launching family
- family in later years
Systems & ecological perspectives & theories - ✔✔Systems theory- refers to the view
that human behavior is explained by the influence of the various systems to which
individuals belong
All systems are seen as possessing interrelated parts and exerting influence on each
other
ecological systems perspective- concerned with the transactions between systems;
people and families must be considered within cultural and societal contexts, which
also necessitates examining the events that have occurred in an individual's life
General systems theory is what it says it is, a number of concepts and principles that
can be applied to any systematic process of understanding any field of knoeledge.
Ecological theory is (mostly) a systematic approach to understanding the interactions of
life and the physical environment.Nov 16, 2020
Strengths-based & resiliency theories - ✔✔Strength's perspective- approach to social
work that puts the strengths and resources of people, communities, and their
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