Assessment and Intervention Planning Flashcards
ECO-MAPS
Visualize the social & personal relationships of clients within their environments.
What is the difference between MANIA & HYPOMANIA?
HYPOMANIA is LESS severe & does NOT cause significant distress/impairment.
PARADOXICAL INTERVENTIONS
Assist with resistance to TX, usually due to being involuntary.
- Using reverse psychology to get the client to do what you want them to.
DOUBLE-BLIND DILEMMA
*Problem in communication.
*Client gets 2+ conflicting messages
- Response to one means failed response to another.
MANIFEST MESSAGE
That which is taken literally WITHOUT analyzing hidden meaning.
- taken at face value.
What is “DOPE SICK”?
-Severe set of symptoms related to drug withdrawal.
- mostly heron and other opiates.
What is the purpose of FAMILY SYSTEM THEORY?
To understand the family system and look at the family as a whole unit.
What are the reasons for conducting a community needs assessment? (5- reasons)
To determine:
- whether services exist in the community.
- whether there are enough clients..
- who uses existing services
- what barriers prevent clients from accepting services.
- the existence of an ongoing social problem.
What are the 6 steps in ethical problem-solving?
- Identify ethical standard involved.
- Determine whether on ethical issue exists.
- Weigh ethical issues with social work values/ principles
- Suggest modifications an needed
5.implement modifications - Monitor modifications
What are the questions in a sexual history?— the 5 P’s
- Partners. (#, gender, risks, length of relationship)
- Practices. (behaviors/risk taking)
3.protection——against STDs - Past————- hx of STDs
- Prevention—-against pregnancy
What are the 6-steps in the problem-solving process?
- Engage
- Assess
- Plan
- Intervention
- Evaluate
- Termination / follow-up/ refer
Intervention planning with social worker and client (8 steps)
1.define the problem
2. Examine the causes
3. Determine some possible solutions
4. Identify: driving and restraining forces
5.rate: driving and restraining forces
6. Prioritize solutions from least to most helpful
7.develop SMART objectives
8. Formulate strategies/tasks related to objectives
Problem identification with clients must include…?
Involving the client in the identifying process.
What are 5 common short-term interventions?
- DBT
- Task - centered
- Crisis intervention
4.CBT - Solution-focused
Descriptive statistics
- summarize data– - mean, median, mode, and standard deviation.
-provide an overview of data distribution and central tendencies.
Inferential statistics
-analyzes relationships between variables and tests hypotheses.
- helps determine significance and generalizability of findings.
Examples:
T-tests, chi-squaretests, ANOVA ,regression analysis
Qualitative analysis ( 3 types)
1.thematic —-identifying patterns and themes in qualitative data.
2. Content—- systematic coding and categorizing text data.
3.narrative—- examining stories and personal accounts to understand experiences.
Mixed - methods analysis
- combines quantitative and qualitative data analysis
- provides a comprehensive understanding—integrating numerical data with in depth insight.
Longitudinal analysis
- Examines data collected overtime to identify trends and changes.
_Useful in evaluating impact of interventions and understanding developmental trajectories.
Cross-sectional analysis
-Analyzes data collected at a single point in time.
- provides a snapshot of current state of population or issue.
Geospatial analysis
’- helps identify spatial patterns /relationships, such as service access and distribution.
What are the ethical considerations for social work research? (5)
1.informed consent
2. Confidentiality/privacy
3.cultural sensitivity
4.data accuracy and integrity.
5.beneficence / non-maleficence
3 qualitative methods of research
- Client interviews
- Focus groups
- Case studies
3 quantitative methods of social work research
- Surveys/questionnaires
- Pre- and post-tests
3.standardized assessment tools
2 mixed- methods in social work research
- Program evaluation
- Outcome- based evaluation
3 process evaluation techniques
- Logic models
- Monitoring and feedback loops
- Supervision and reflective practice
2 common social work EBP evaluation
- Randomized can trolled trials (RCTs).
- Single-subject designs (SSDs)
In crisis intervention → social workers conduct assessments to… (3 things)
- Understand nature and severity of the crisis.
- Assess safety
- Gather relevant information to inform intervention
Crisis intervention → safety plan → includes what 3 key things?
- Triggers
- coping strategies
- Accessible resources
Bonus:
→ support systems
