A 25 year old male meets with a social worker. The client reports that for the past week he has felt especially energetic, has not felt much of a need to sleep, and has been very talkative. He reports being especially productive in his work during this time, even as he has been spending large amounts of money, which he cannot afford, and has been engaging in high-risk sexual behavior. The client states he has a history of depressive episodes as well. What is the client’s most likely DSM-5 diagnosis?

The Master’s Level exam is intended for social workers who have completed their MSW degree but may not yet have post-degree supervision or experience. The test covers material that will hopefully be familiar to you from your MSW graduate program.    The Association of Social Work Boards Master’s Level exam contains 170 multiple-choice questions. However, as 20 of these questions are experimental, unscored questions being evaluated for future exams, only 150 of the questions will count toward your score. Since the 20 experimental questions are randomly mixed into the exam, you will not know... Show more

The Master’s Level exam is intended for social workers who have completed their MSW degree but may not yet have post-degree supervision or experience. The test covers material that will hopefully be familiar to you from your MSW graduate program.   

The Association of Social Work Boards Master’s Level exam contains 170 multiple-choice questions. However, as 20 of these questions are experimental, unscored questions being evaluated for future exams, only 150 of the questions will count toward your score. Since the 20 experimental questions are randomly mixed into the exam, you will not know which questions count and which do not. You will have four hours to complete the exam, which is administered by computer at a Pearson VUE testing center.  

The Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) exam covers these areas:    
Human development, diversity, and behavior in the environment (27%)    
Assessment and intervention planning (24%)    
Interventions with clients and client systems (24%)    
Professional relationships, values, and ethics (25%)    

Three Types of Test Questions    
Recall questions: These are the simplest of the question types you will see on the ASWB exams, but they do require knowledge of a wide range of material. 
Reasoning questions: Reasoning questions test your ability to consider information from a potential practice scenario and discern a way in which the information connects to a social work theory or practice method.    
Application questions: Application questions ask you to put yourself in the shoes of a hypothetical social worker. Using your diverse skillset, you have to apply social work theories or methods to the situation that the question presents.    

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