LCSW Study Guide of Theories
2025/2026 Exam Questions Marking
Scheme New Update | A+ Rated
Systems theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Includes ecological systems and family
systems
What does systems theory involved - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Goal oriented planned
change
Techniques of systems theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Education, advocacy,
facilitation and intervention.
Where did the problems come from within systems theory - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔They are viewed as in the system. Not as in the client.
Skills used in systems theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Assessing problems,
collecting data, making initial contracts, negotiating contracts, forming
action systems, maintaining and coordinating action systems, exercising
influence, and terminating the change effort.
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,Micro - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Reference to interaction and mutuality and personal
peer relationships.
Mezzo - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Access to resources, often facilitated by central
figures, informal leaders.
Macro - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Laois and ship between people and more formal
community organizations.
Value base of systems theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Society has the obligation to
ensure that people have access to resources and opportunities and when
providing resources dignity and individuality should be obtained
Ecological systems perspective - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A subgroup of systems
theory. How people interact with their environment. All the parts affect each
other. Systems can a closed or open boundaries. Systems tend toward
equilibrium.
Systems theory ecological systems theorists - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Parsons,
Merton, Germaine, Gittleman
Practical applications of ecological systems - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Useful for
developing holistic view of persons in environment. Enhances
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,understanding of interactions between micro - meso - macro levels of
organization.
Practice interventions of ecological systems - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Strength in
one part of the system or subsystem to impact the whole system. Eco-
maps and Gina grams for understanding system dynamics. Networking and
referrals to facilitate change.
Family systems part of systems theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔How the family
system affects the individual and family functioning across the lifespan
Primary concepts of family systems - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Individual functioning
shapes family functioning and family systems can create pathology within
the individual. Looks at boundaries, rolls, communication, family structure,
influence and family functioning.
Family systems theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bowen, Sacher, Mnuchin, Carter
and McGoldrick
Practical applications of family systems - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Useful for
understanding family systems and lifecycles of her multiple generations
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, Practice interventions of family systems - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Multigenerational
genograms, family and parent coaching, assessment a family development
and lifecycle transitions
Behaviorism and social learning theory includes which three series? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cognitive theory, behavioral Siri, and social learning theory
Social learning theories focus on - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔How individuals develop
cognitive functioning and learn through acting on their environment
Main concepts of behaviorism and social learning theories - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Imitation and reaction to stimulation shape behavioral learning,
knowledge is constructed three children physically and mentally acting on
objects, intelligence is an evolutionary biological adaptation to the
environment, cognitive structures enable adaptation and organization
Famous theorists of behaviorism and social learning theories - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Pavlov, Skinner, Watson, Piaget, Bandura, Beck
Practical applications of behaviorism and social learning theories -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Useful for enabling behavioral and symptomatic change,
useful for assessing individual cognitive functioning, group and family
interactions
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2025/2026 Exam Questions Marking
Scheme New Update | A+ Rated
Systems theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Includes ecological systems and family
systems
What does systems theory involved - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Goal oriented planned
change
Techniques of systems theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Education, advocacy,
facilitation and intervention.
Where did the problems come from within systems theory - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔They are viewed as in the system. Not as in the client.
Skills used in systems theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Assessing problems,
collecting data, making initial contracts, negotiating contracts, forming
action systems, maintaining and coordinating action systems, exercising
influence, and terminating the change effort.
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,Micro - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Reference to interaction and mutuality and personal
peer relationships.
Mezzo - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Access to resources, often facilitated by central
figures, informal leaders.
Macro - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Laois and ship between people and more formal
community organizations.
Value base of systems theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Society has the obligation to
ensure that people have access to resources and opportunities and when
providing resources dignity and individuality should be obtained
Ecological systems perspective - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A subgroup of systems
theory. How people interact with their environment. All the parts affect each
other. Systems can a closed or open boundaries. Systems tend toward
equilibrium.
Systems theory ecological systems theorists - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Parsons,
Merton, Germaine, Gittleman
Practical applications of ecological systems - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Useful for
developing holistic view of persons in environment. Enhances
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,understanding of interactions between micro - meso - macro levels of
organization.
Practice interventions of ecological systems - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Strength in
one part of the system or subsystem to impact the whole system. Eco-
maps and Gina grams for understanding system dynamics. Networking and
referrals to facilitate change.
Family systems part of systems theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔How the family
system affects the individual and family functioning across the lifespan
Primary concepts of family systems - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Individual functioning
shapes family functioning and family systems can create pathology within
the individual. Looks at boundaries, rolls, communication, family structure,
influence and family functioning.
Family systems theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bowen, Sacher, Mnuchin, Carter
and McGoldrick
Practical applications of family systems - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Useful for
understanding family systems and lifecycles of her multiple generations
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, Practice interventions of family systems - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Multigenerational
genograms, family and parent coaching, assessment a family development
and lifecycle transitions
Behaviorism and social learning theory includes which three series? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cognitive theory, behavioral Siri, and social learning theory
Social learning theories focus on - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔How individuals develop
cognitive functioning and learn through acting on their environment
Main concepts of behaviorism and social learning theories - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Imitation and reaction to stimulation shape behavioral learning,
knowledge is constructed three children physically and mentally acting on
objects, intelligence is an evolutionary biological adaptation to the
environment, cognitive structures enable adaptation and organization
Famous theorists of behaviorism and social learning theories - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Pavlov, Skinner, Watson, Piaget, Bandura, Beck
Practical applications of behaviorism and social learning theories -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Useful for enabling behavioral and symptomatic change,
useful for assessing individual cognitive functioning, group and family
interactions
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