LCSW ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Omnipotence - ✔✔Feeling or acting as if he or she possesses special powers or
abilities and is superior to others
✔✔Denial - ✔✔Painful aspect of external reality or subjective experience that would be
apparent to others
✔✔Projection - ✔✔Falsely attributing to another his or her own unacceptable feelings,
impulses or thoughts
✔✔Rationalization - ✔✔Concealing true motivations for his or her own thoughts,
actions, or feelings through the elaboration of reassuring or self-serving but incorrect
explanations
✔✔Gestalt Therapy - ✔✔Focus on the here and now with immediate awareness of
personal experiences. Guilt is viewed as "unfinished business", Use of I language
✔✔Object Relations Theory - ✔✔Human growth and development theory, the child
often uses transitional objects such as a "teddy bear" to separate from the mother.
✔✔Client Centered Theory - ✔✔Human relations theory, therapist is seen as an acitve
listener and reinterprets statements made by the client
✔✔Systems Theory - ✔✔Ensures that people have access to resources and
opportunities, goal oriented planned change-problems are viewed as in the system
✔✔Ecological Systems Perspective - ✔✔Must include the community in every part of
the assessment, adaptation and the goodness of fit with the environment must be
established
✔✔Family Therapy/Family Systems - ✔✔Treatment is focused toward a family-goal is
homeostasis, never uses DSM as a diagnostic tool
, ✔✔Transference - ✔✔emotional reactions assigned to current relationships that come
from earlier relationships
✔✔Counter-transference - ✔✔The social worker is the one who attributes feelings to the
client
✔✔Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy - ✔✔ABCDE model, Cognitive behavioral form
of treatment, dysfunctional behaviors are the result of irrational thoughts and beliefs
✔✔Problem Solving Model - ✔✔Focuses on the here and now, the 4 P's, used as a
foundation for the development of brief therapy and crisis intervention
✔✔Task Centered - ✔✔Client defined problems and goals, intervention based on
specific goal resolution, structured sessions, ends with problem solving in the session
✔✔Solution Focused - ✔✔Change talk or change strategy is the focus of all interventive
efforts
✔✔Brief Planned Treatment - ✔✔Main criteria is speed, effectiveness, time limited and
reality focused. Eclecticism or Pluralism is generally the model used
✔✔Crisis Intervention - ✔✔Time limited, deals with the crisis period and restoring
equilibrium for the client, here and now orientation, therapist is active and directive
✔✔Sculpting Excercise - ✔✔Increases family awareness of communtication
styles/patterns
✔✔Reactivity - ✔✔When people know they are being watched they may act differently
✔✔Projection Identification - ✔✔Unconsciously attributing and perceiving the behavior
of another as a reflection of self
✔✔Hypothesis - ✔✔A proposition that is stated in a testable form
✔✔Null Hypothesis - ✔✔No difference
✔✔Random Sample - ✔✔Each subject in the population has an equal chance of being
selected, increases your generalizability
✔✔Generalizability - ✔✔Taking what you know about a small group or sample of a
population and apply it to explain the general population, uses maximum controls
✔✔Nonparametric test - ✔✔chi square test
✔✔Omnipotence - ✔✔Feeling or acting as if he or she possesses special powers or
abilities and is superior to others
✔✔Denial - ✔✔Painful aspect of external reality or subjective experience that would be
apparent to others
✔✔Projection - ✔✔Falsely attributing to another his or her own unacceptable feelings,
impulses or thoughts
✔✔Rationalization - ✔✔Concealing true motivations for his or her own thoughts,
actions, or feelings through the elaboration of reassuring or self-serving but incorrect
explanations
✔✔Gestalt Therapy - ✔✔Focus on the here and now with immediate awareness of
personal experiences. Guilt is viewed as "unfinished business", Use of I language
✔✔Object Relations Theory - ✔✔Human growth and development theory, the child
often uses transitional objects such as a "teddy bear" to separate from the mother.
✔✔Client Centered Theory - ✔✔Human relations theory, therapist is seen as an acitve
listener and reinterprets statements made by the client
✔✔Systems Theory - ✔✔Ensures that people have access to resources and
opportunities, goal oriented planned change-problems are viewed as in the system
✔✔Ecological Systems Perspective - ✔✔Must include the community in every part of
the assessment, adaptation and the goodness of fit with the environment must be
established
✔✔Family Therapy/Family Systems - ✔✔Treatment is focused toward a family-goal is
homeostasis, never uses DSM as a diagnostic tool
, ✔✔Transference - ✔✔emotional reactions assigned to current relationships that come
from earlier relationships
✔✔Counter-transference - ✔✔The social worker is the one who attributes feelings to the
client
✔✔Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy - ✔✔ABCDE model, Cognitive behavioral form
of treatment, dysfunctional behaviors are the result of irrational thoughts and beliefs
✔✔Problem Solving Model - ✔✔Focuses on the here and now, the 4 P's, used as a
foundation for the development of brief therapy and crisis intervention
✔✔Task Centered - ✔✔Client defined problems and goals, intervention based on
specific goal resolution, structured sessions, ends with problem solving in the session
✔✔Solution Focused - ✔✔Change talk or change strategy is the focus of all interventive
efforts
✔✔Brief Planned Treatment - ✔✔Main criteria is speed, effectiveness, time limited and
reality focused. Eclecticism or Pluralism is generally the model used
✔✔Crisis Intervention - ✔✔Time limited, deals with the crisis period and restoring
equilibrium for the client, here and now orientation, therapist is active and directive
✔✔Sculpting Excercise - ✔✔Increases family awareness of communtication
styles/patterns
✔✔Reactivity - ✔✔When people know they are being watched they may act differently
✔✔Projection Identification - ✔✔Unconsciously attributing and perceiving the behavior
of another as a reflection of self
✔✔Hypothesis - ✔✔A proposition that is stated in a testable form
✔✔Null Hypothesis - ✔✔No difference
✔✔Random Sample - ✔✔Each subject in the population has an equal chance of being
selected, increases your generalizability
✔✔Generalizability - ✔✔Taking what you know about a small group or sample of a
population and apply it to explain the general population, uses maximum controls
✔✔Nonparametric test - ✔✔chi square test
