Clinical Social Work Licensure Exam
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Correct
Answers | New Update
Governance structures - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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.
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,Indicators of normal & abnormal physical, cognitive, emotional, and
behavioral - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔See supplemental material
Basic human needs - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs-
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 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bowlby Attachment Styles
- secure attachment
- dismissive/avoidant attachment
- fearful/avoidant attachment
- anxious/preoccupied attachment
Effect of aging on biopsychosocial functioning - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Biological
aging- physical changes
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,Psychological aging- changes in personality, cognitive ability, adaptive
ability & perception
Social aging- changes in relationships
Gerontology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Study of biological, cognitive, and
psychological features of the aging process
Personality theories - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔William Sheldon- mesomorph &
endomorph (see supplemental material)
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
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, Factors influencing self-image - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔culture, race/ethnicity,
religion, spirituality, age, disability, trauma
Body image & its impact - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔authoritative, authoritarian, permissive,
uninvolved
Basic principles of human genetics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔theories assume that, as members of a
family unit, individuals pass through different stages of life
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2025/2026 Exam Questions and Correct
Answers | New Update
Governance structures - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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.
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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,Indicators of normal & abnormal physical, cognitive, emotional, and
behavioral - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔See supplemental material
Basic human needs - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs-
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 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bowlby Attachment Styles
- secure attachment
- dismissive/avoidant attachment
- fearful/avoidant attachment
- anxious/preoccupied attachment
Effect of aging on biopsychosocial functioning - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Biological
aging- physical changes
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,Psychological aging- changes in personality, cognitive ability, adaptive
ability & perception
Social aging- changes in relationships
Gerontology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Study of biological, cognitive, and
psychological features of the aging process
Personality theories - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔William Sheldon- mesomorph &
endomorph (see supplemental material)
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
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, Factors influencing self-image - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔culture, race/ethnicity,
religion, spirituality, age, disability, trauma
Body image & its impact - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔authoritative, authoritarian, permissive,
uninvolved
Basic principles of human genetics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔theories assume that, as members of a
family unit, individuals pass through different stages of life
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