Social Work Licensing Masters Exam Guide

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Updated to reflect the most recent ASWB Exam outlines, Dr. Apgar's comprehensive Social Work Licensing Masters Exam Guide leads you through the four social work domains with a concise review of the concepts, methods, and principles you'll need to know and apply to pass the exam.

In the guide, you’ll learn about the content areas, competencies, and KSAs that are the basis for exam questions and how to:

• Avoid common test-taking mistakes and recognize qualifying words in question structure.
• Accurately identify the knowledge areas and KSAs behind each exam question.
• Apply your knowledge appropriately to the three types of questions you’ll encounter on the exam.
• Deconstruct and analyze questions by identifying the stem,key, and distractors.
• Eliminate answers and select the only correct answer among similar answers.

Exam Guide Features:

• How to Use This Guide — An all-new chapter focused on how the book's content structure links to the ASWB exam outline to help you study more efficiently.
• Examination Overview — Expanded discussion and analysis of the exam content based on the most recent ASWB outlines.
• Practical study tips — New content focused on essential strategies for success, how to deal with test anxiety, and how to maximize content retention based on learning styles.
• Critical test-taking strategies for analyzing ASWB-style questions and finding the only correct answer.
• Updated content on race, ethnicity and culture, and macro practice
• Self-Assessment Test to help identify areas of strength and weakness
• Practice Test — Includes a 170-question full practice test mirroring the actual exam with detailed explanations of correct answers.

The book comes with online access to ExamPrepConnect, to help you plan a customized study plan based on your specific exam date. Ways you can use ExamPrepConnect to plan to pass:

• Join live and on-demand lessons and private discussion boards with Dr. Apgar and others who are studying the same material for additional support and review.
• Get anywhere access to all the high-quality content from the guide across all your devices.
• Follow a personalized study plan based on your exam date.
• Take notes, highlight key terms, and bookmark content. Then review your notes and return to marked material from your personal dashboard.
• Track your scores, confidence, and strengths and weaknesses as you progress through the material. Know what you know and what you still need to review.
• Review your answers to practice questions in real-time, use the answer eliminator option, and read detailed rationales.
• Take both full-length practice tests digitally to simulate the test-taking environment.
• Try the game center to test your knowledge and compete with peers. 

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Dawn Apgar, PhD, LSW, ACSW, has helped thousands of social workers across the country pass the ASWB examinations associated with all levels of licensure. In recent years, she has consulted in numerous states to assist with establishing licensure test preparation programs.

Dr. Apgar has done research on licensure funded by the American Foundation for Research and Consumer Education in Social Work Regulation and was chairperson of her state's social work licensing board. She is a past President of the New Jersey Chapter of NASW and has been on its National Board of Directors. In 2014, the Chapter presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Apgar has taught in both undergraduate and graduate social work programs and has extensive direct practice, policy, and management experience in the social work field.