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Mar

The Perfect Social Worker

March 1, 2009 | exam day | tips and tricks

Just finished my 800th online test question (that's four of the five exams). Doing okay--not as well as I'd like--not yet test-ready. [Sigh.] On some questions, seems it's all too easy to get dragged into answers by personal experience--

exam day | tips and tricks

Mar

Defense Mechanisms

March 1, 2009 | extra knowledge | video

Encountered while making flash cards--hadn't seen this elsewhere, but seems helpful (and wouldn't fit on a card)--Vaillant's Levels of Defense Mechanisms: Level I - psychotic defences (i.e. psychotic denial, delusional projection) Level II -

extra knowledge | video

Mar

Delusions of...

March 1, 2009 | knowledge | quiz

knowledge | quiz

Feb

Safety First

February 25, 2009 | tips and tricks

Here's another oft-repeated rule of thumb that bears repeating: What the board is testing for is basic competence. That means that if you become licensed, they want to be sure you will do no harm. How do they test for this?

tips and tricks

Feb

Testing: MMPI

February 22, 2009 | extra knowledge

Questions I keep missing on the practice tests: stuff about psych testing. Never learned it at school, don't use it at work. Have to go from scratch. Does this mean anything to you?

extra knowledge

Feb

Wisdom of the Licensed I

February 22, 2009 | tips and tricks

There's probably a licensed person or two kicking around in your life somewhere. Your supervisor, for one. How'd they get there? How'd they get through the test?

tips and tricks

Feb

Wisdom of the Licensed II

February 22, 2009 | tips and tricks

More pearls from licensed folk: If a question has cultural markers ("Your client is an Asian-Ameican who..."), then you are being tested on cultural competence.

tips and tricks

Feb

Wisdom of the Licensed III

February 22, 2009 | tips and tricks

This from a PsyD: The questions on the practice tests are the same as the ones on the exam. Run the practice questions over and over and over...and over. It's worth it. On exam day, you'll know the questions, you'll know the answers.

tips and tricks

Feb

Flash Cards: "Intro Psych"

February 19, 2009 | flash cards

Another good set of flash cards, this one covering many bases in 109 cards--from Piaget to CNS to stats. See also lots and lots of social work exam flash cards including a set (labelled "Teacher") taking a handful of content areas topic by topic.

flash cards

Feb

Revolution

February 18, 2009 | meta

Join the Social Work Test Prep revolution! @ facebook @ instagram @ twitter @ pinterest See you there. This post first went up when SWTP was just beginning--a blogspot-

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