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Course Topics
Note: Lecture Courses focus on the clinical content of the examination and on test-taking skills.
Social Policy
- Societal Context for Social Welfare
- Major perspectives and frameworks of social policy
- Important Supreme Court decisions
- Trends in current social policy
- Social Security and other landmark legislation
- Major Current Social Welfare Policy Provisions including Welfare
- Policy and Practice
- The new NASW Code of Ethics
Research
- Research design
- Types of Research
- Descriptive and Experimental Studies
- Validity, Reliability, Sampling
- Formative and summative evaluations
- Tests of significance
- Descriptive Statistics
Community Organization and Administration
- Concepts and frameworks for planning and community organization
- Major theories and social work roles
- Rothman's models of community organization
- Administrative functions
- Major management theorists and schools of thought
- Trends in community organization and planning
Human Behavior
- Important theorists and their conceptual orientations
- Freud, Hartman, Sullivan, Rogers, Erikson, Piaget, Kohlberg, Gilligan, etc
- Psychopathology: models for understanding mental disorder
- DSM IV
- Diagnostic process
- Major classifications of mental disorders
Social Work Practice with Individuals
- Generic, psycho-social, functional, problem-solving approaches
- Major treatment models
- Crisis intervention, behavior modification
- Social Problems
- Ecological models
- Casework in special settings
- Casework roles and treatment perspectives
Social Work Practice With Groups
- History of social group work
- Phases of working with groups
- Group process and dynamics
- Contemporary approaches
- Group practice with special populations
- HMOs and Groups
Clinical Practice
- Phases of treatment
- Uses of self
- Major theories
- Clinical practice in special settings
- Values, ethics, confidentiality and malpractice
- Principal medications and their use
Multicultural Practice and Diversity
- Origins of Culturally Competent Practice
- Theoretical Tensions and Dilemmas
- Approaches to Practice
- Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes
- Cultural Competence in Organizations
- Mental Health issues with Different Cultural and Ethnic Groups
- Racism and Diversity
Test Taking Techniques
- Assumptions of test creators
- Answering multiple-choice questions
- Preparing for the exam
- The scoring system
- Practice exam and review of question strategies
Social Work Examination Services,Inc.
132 Naples Rd., s. 100 Brookline, MA 02446
phone: 1-800-933-8802 fax: 617-277-6707 info@swes.net
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