ASWB Week 1 Flashcards
What is the difference between race and ethnicity?
Race refers to a biological distinction within a species. Ethnicity refers to the common customs, language and heritage of a category of people.
What is the difference between Bipolar I and Bipolar II?
Both have episodes of hypomania for 4 days or longer along with episodes of mania. However, Bipolar I has a significant impact on one’s functioning. Bipolar II does not.
What is the difference between GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) and Schizophrenia?
Generalized Anxiety Disorder happens for 6 months or longer. Schizophrenia lasts more than a month and less than six months.
List William Cross’ Stages of Identity Development for People of Color?
Pre-Encounter, Encounter, Immersion, Internalization, Internalization Commitment
List the stages of Sue and Sue’s Stages of Racial/Cultural Identity
Conformity, Dissonance, Resistance & Immersion, Introspection, and Integrative Awareness
Define Dissonance
When an individual goes through the process of rethinking or challenging their beliefs.
Define Integrative Awareness
When an individual is able to appreciate both their own culture and the cultures of others.
Define Resistance Immersion
Showing preference to a minority group and actively rejects the views of dominant cultures.
List the 4 Types of Experimental Designs
Single Subject, Quasi Experimental, True Experimental
& Double Blind Two Variable Study
What is a single subject design?
The person is their own change agent (aka single), therefore it is up to the client whether they interact with the independent variable or not.
What is a quasi-experimental design?
a type of design that involves all of the participants getting the independent variable.
What is a true experimental design?
This type of design involves some people getting the independent variable, and others not (aka possibly recieving a placebo).
What is a Double Blind Two Variable Study?
Type of design where participants as well as researchers are unaware of who gets the independent variable, and who does not.
What is the acronym for Application Questions?
(S, F, A, R, E, A, F, I) : Safety, Feelings, Access, Refer, Educate, Advocate, Facilitate, and Intervene)
What is the acronym used to identify the plan of action a SW should take?
A, A, S, P, I, R, I, N, S : ACKNOWLEDGE the Client/build rapport, ACCESS, START where the patient is at, PROTECT life of the individual and community (preventing danger to self), If INTOXICATED, Do Not Treat - Refer, RULE out medical issues, INFORMED CONSENT, NON-JUDGMENTAL stance, Support Patient SELF DETERMINATION.
What is the difference between ID, Ego, and Superego?
ID stands for IMPULSIVE “devil on your shoulder”, Ego is the Evaluate & Go (the normal person), and Superego refers to the superhero “angel on your shoulder”
What is the difference between Acute Stress Disorder and PTSD?
ACD lasts 30 days or less. PTSD requires more symptoms and lasts 30 days or longer.
What are the Four Stages of Development
- Oral (0-1 yr)
- Phallic (3-6)
- Latent (6-Puberty)
- Genital (Puberty to Death)
How many Americans over the age of 50+ are caring for aging parents?
10 million
What percent of adult children provide personal or economic assistance to their parents?
25%
Research indicates that becoming a personal caregiver to a parent increases the rates of
Substance Abuse, Depression, and Heart Disease
Gerontology is the study of
biological, cognitive, and psychological features of the aging process.
Disengagement Theory states that
it is natural and inevitable for older adults to withdraw from thier social systems and to reduce interactions with others. This theory is also highly criticized.
Activity Theory proposes that
social activity serves as a buffer to aging. Successful aging occurs when those maintain their activity levels and social connections.
Continuity Theory proposes that
with age, individuals attempt to maintain activities and relationships that were typical of them as younger adults.
_________ Aging is based on changes in personality, cognitive ability, adaptive ability, and perception.
Psychological
_________ Aging is based on changes in the personality, cognitive ability, adaptive ability, and perception.
Biologiocal
_________ Aging is based on changes in one’s relationships with family, friends, and acquaintances, systems, and organizations.
Social
________ generally occurs within the first few hours of birth and is the mothers initial connection to her baby
Bonding
Refers to the more gradual development of the baby’s relationship with his or her caretaker.
Attachment
_________ Attachment is characterized by a detached relationship in which the child does not seek out the caregiver when distressed, but acts independently .
Avoidant
_______ Attachment shows inconsistency toward the caregiver; sometimes the child clings to the caregiver and other times resists comfort.
Ambivalent Attachment
Founder of the psychoanalytic theory
Sigmund Freud
During what Human Development Stage is a child’s sexual interests become dormant.
Latent (Age 6-Puberty)
During what Human Development Stage will Oedipus and Electra complexes may occur
Phallic Stage (Age 3-6)
During what stage does conflict arise when the child realizes that he/she has failed to win over the parent’s bond with one another.
Phallic Stage (Age 3-6)
During what stage does a person develop a sense of pride in thier accomplishments, initiate projects, and see them through to thier completion, achieve goals
Industry vs. Inferiority (Age 6-12)
During what stage does the child begin to plan activities and make up games and play with other children. Child gains confidence in leading or making decisions. May feel like a nuisance to others is not successful.
Initiate versus Guilt (Age 3-6)
During this stage child becomes more independent and starts looking at options for future careers, housing or family. Begins to develop identities based on interest and explore options and can accept when things are not for them.
Identity vs. Role Confusion (Age 12-18)
Define Role Confusion
Failure to develop a sense of identity; relies on others to tell them what is best, unsure of their purpose.
During this stage the person begins to establish thier career, settle down with a family, develops a sense
of being a part of something larger than themselves.
Generativity vs. Stagnation
During this stage, person begins to slow down in productivity and begins to reflect on life’s work and accomplishments.
Integrity versus Despair (Age 65+)
Which of the following is the normal life crisis that adults resolve between the ages of 18-40?
Intimacy versus Isolation (Age 18-40)
A three year old has been showing signs of independence, wanting to pick out his own clothes to wear and what foods he would like to eat. What stage of development is the boy likely in?
Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt (Age 0-3)
A social worker works at a mental health agency and is asked by her supervisor to evaluate the effectiveness of their substance use disorder program What is the first step a social worker would take?
Identify the overall goal of the substance use disorder program
What is the most effective treatment for someone struggling with Borderline Personality Disorder?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps clients
change their thoughts feelings and behaviors
Dialectical Behavior Therapy helps clients by
helping them develop a better connection between their emotional reaction and the rational part of decision making. Often associated with a Venn Diagram
Solution Focused Therapy involves
helping someone overcome a specific goal
Sublimation is substituting a negative behavior for a ________ one.
positive
_________ is putting your emotions into a different place that is less threatening. ( i.e. punching a pillow versus punching someone you are mad at)
Displacement
Which medication is MOST likely to be prescribed to someone with Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Xanex
The process by which a person accepts and organizes information, then incorporates new material into existing knowledge,
Assimilation
The process by which old ideas must be changed or replaced due to obtaining new information from the environment.
Accommodation
Who is best known for his concept that children’s minds are just smaller versions of adult minds, but instead grow and develop in different ways.
Piaget
Explain the difference between psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory
Psychoanalytical Theory is a thought process (ID, EGO, Super Ego). Psychodynamic is a theory that investigates someone’s past and have it help dictate and explore the the future Usually helps address behavior al concerns,
Explain Borderline Personality Disorder
Someone who engages in relationships and will fluctuate in and out of them quickly. They feel like their relationship is more deep/means more than it does. Engage is risky behavior to sustain relationships (ie self mutilate, SI, substance use)
What is the difference between Bipolar I and Bipolar II?
Bipolar I clinically affects one’s functioning and does not require episode of depression. Bipolar II does not require an episode of depression and does not affect one’s functioning. Bipolar I requires hospitalization, Bipolar II does not.
What is the difference between structural and strategic?
Structural has boundaries and communication. Strategic is a quicker modality where therapist helps family come up with strategies to improve their life. SW is in charge
During which Operational Stage can the child use symbols, is egocentric, and has trouble understanding logic and different points of view?
Preoperational Stage
During which Operational Stage can a person understand differing points of view and logic; has trouble dealing with the abstract?
Concrete Operational Stage
The Pre- adulthood stage begins at birth and ends at age ___. Individual develops sense of independence.
22
Adolescence ends and individual begins making decisions about adult life.
Early Adulthood Transition (Age 17-45)
Most individuals are able to lead fulfilling lives, take on a mentor role and choices must be made about livelihood and retirement
Middle Adulthood Stage (Age 40-65)
Theory proposes that every society has a social clock or understood expectation for when certain life events should happen
Social Clock Theory
A toddler should be able to walk without assistance by _____ months.
18
Child should be able to run and able to climb steps one stair at a time by ___ years.
2
At what age do infants begin to learn object permanence?
6 - 12 months
At this age a child can sort objects in categories, responds to directions, and names objects?
2 to 3 years
At this age a child can recognize familiar faces and sounds.
3 - 6 months.
Emotional development encompasses the development of what 5 abilities:
-Identify and understanding the feelings that one experiences, the feelings of others, emotional and behavioral regulation, empathy, and establishing relationships with others.
What is the Zone of Proximal development?
the range of tasks that a child can do with assistance, but not independently
____ has two distinct instincts. A death instinct called thantos and a survival instinct called eros. Eros is also know as libido.
The ID
__________ aging is based on changes in the personality, cognitive ability, adaptive ability, and perception.
Psychological
____________ aging is based on changes in one’s relationships with family, friends, acquaintances, systems, and organizations.
Social
An overweight person with an easy going personality is referred to as an ____________
Endomorph
A muscular person with an aggressive personality is referred to as a __________.
Mesomorph
Who developed the trait theory of personality development?
Gordon Allport
_________ plays a larger role than race in self-identification.
Ethnicity
What percent of U.S children have some type of disability?
7%
The most common physical disabilities that impact development are ___________.
Cerebral Palsy
Hearing issues
Visual issues
Who focused on conflicts that arise between different cultures?
Ludwig Gumplowicz
