LCSW Law & Ethics Exam 2025
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Law categories - ✔✔Confidentiality, privilege, and consent
Limits to confidentiality, including mandated reporting
Legal standards for professional practice
Ethics categories - ✔✔Professional competence and preventing harm
Therapeutic relationship/services
Business practices and policies
Scope of practice - ✔✔Set in state law - specifies what someone with an LCSW license
can legally do
CSWs cannot provide the following types of advice: - ✔✔Legal advice, medical advice,
any other type of guidance outside the scope of CSW practice
If you have a strong emotional reaction to a client - ✔✔You may not be able to provide
effective services
If a CSW is having a strong reaction to a client they should - ✔✔Seek supervision and
consultation, and consider going to therapy
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, When facilitating a transfer to a new therapist - ✔✔Consider an ROI to the new
therapist, authorize communication, and follow up to ensure continuity of care
If the therapist allows her own beliefs to influence her (the danger of doing so) -
✔✔They may miss or misinterpret important clinical information, decreasing the
likelihood of effective therapy
If the therapist becomes aware their personal attitudes are entering into therapy, they
should - ✔✔Seek supervision/consultation and go to therapy. Consider a referral if
necessary, but avoid abandonment and discrimination.
When a CSW is working with someone who lacks decision-making abilities - ✔✔The
CSW needs to take steps to safeguard that client's interests and rights
In decision-making processes, the therapist's job is to - ✔✔Help client understand
potential consequences and how different choices align with their goals
Ethically, CSWs are required to inform clients of instances where their responsibility -
✔✔To the larger society supersedes the therapist's responsibility to the client (such as
child abuse reporting)
When the law offers a stricter standard than ethics, or vice versa, the therapist should -
✔✔Follow the stricter standard
If the law and ethical standards directly conflict, the therapist should follow - ✔✔The
law
When ethics conflict with the workplace policy or a decision made by a treatment team,
the therapist should - ✔✔Take reasonable steps to resolve the issue for the therapist to
continue practicing ethically. Supervisors should try to change policies that are
unethical.
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Law categories - ✔✔Confidentiality, privilege, and consent
Limits to confidentiality, including mandated reporting
Legal standards for professional practice
Ethics categories - ✔✔Professional competence and preventing harm
Therapeutic relationship/services
Business practices and policies
Scope of practice - ✔✔Set in state law - specifies what someone with an LCSW license
can legally do
CSWs cannot provide the following types of advice: - ✔✔Legal advice, medical advice,
any other type of guidance outside the scope of CSW practice
If you have a strong emotional reaction to a client - ✔✔You may not be able to provide
effective services
If a CSW is having a strong reaction to a client they should - ✔✔Seek supervision and
consultation, and consider going to therapy
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY GRACE AMELIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
, When facilitating a transfer to a new therapist - ✔✔Consider an ROI to the new
therapist, authorize communication, and follow up to ensure continuity of care
If the therapist allows her own beliefs to influence her (the danger of doing so) -
✔✔They may miss or misinterpret important clinical information, decreasing the
likelihood of effective therapy
If the therapist becomes aware their personal attitudes are entering into therapy, they
should - ✔✔Seek supervision/consultation and go to therapy. Consider a referral if
necessary, but avoid abandonment and discrimination.
When a CSW is working with someone who lacks decision-making abilities - ✔✔The
CSW needs to take steps to safeguard that client's interests and rights
In decision-making processes, the therapist's job is to - ✔✔Help client understand
potential consequences and how different choices align with their goals
Ethically, CSWs are required to inform clients of instances where their responsibility -
✔✔To the larger society supersedes the therapist's responsibility to the client (such as
child abuse reporting)
When the law offers a stricter standard than ethics, or vice versa, the therapist should -
✔✔Follow the stricter standard
If the law and ethical standards directly conflict, the therapist should follow - ✔✔The
law
When ethics conflict with the workplace policy or a decision made by a treatment team,
the therapist should - ✔✔Take reasonable steps to resolve the issue for the therapist to
continue practicing ethically. Supervisors should try to change policies that are
unethical.
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