Clinical and Macro Terms Flashcards
A set of conscious or unconscious emotional reactions to a client experienced by a therapist. These feelings usually originate in the therapist’s own developmental conflicts or past. When this occurs, a good first step is to seek supervision.
Counter Transference
The occurrence of coexistent diseases within an individual. This is most commonly associated with a substance use disorder and another psychiatric disorder
Dual Diagnosis
The emotional reactions that are assigned to current relationships but originated in earlier experiences (often presenting as the feelings a client has toward a therapist). When a client experiences this interaction with the therapist, it can be discussed and used therapeutically.
Transference:
Having a second role with the client in addition to the client- therapist relationship (such as friend, business associate, family member, sex partner, etc.). Simply put, a dual relationship is anytime we know a client outside of the therapeutic relationship.
Dual Relationship
Traits of personality, thought, behavior, and values that are incorporated by the individuals who considers them acceptable and consistent with his or her overall “true” self
Ego Syntonic
Traits of personality, behavior, thought or orientation considered to be unacceptable, repugnant, or inconsistent with individual’s perceptions - conscious or unconscious - of himself or herself
Ego Dystonic
A therapeutic technique in which the social worker communicates to a client that they perceive and understand the experiences, emotional state, and/or ideas of their client.
Empathy
This model utilizes interventions that help people achieve a sense of control in their lives by using a client’s strengths, resources, and resilience. It aims to reduce powerlessness created by social and political environments that oppress.
Empowerment Model
This combines the social worker’s clinical experience, code of ethics, and client preferences with well-researched interventions to guide the treatment and services a client receives to achieve their therapeutic goals.
Evidence Based Practice
The process of a client granting permission to engage in treatment after receiving information about treatment including potential risks and benefits.
Informed Consent
An ethical principal of social work that allows a clients to make their own choices about treatment and their lives.
Self-Determination
Accurately describing the client’s verbal and nonverbal clues, listening and responding to not just the content, but the feelings of the client. It involves communicating that you accurately sense the world as they are experiencing it.
____ back the essence of what the client has just communicated (verbally and nonverbally)
Reflection/Reflective Listening
A technique used to help clients see the their situation in a new light or from a different perspective they haven’t thought of.
Reframing
The therapist’s clinical impression of the meaning behind a behavioral/communication. It goes beyond the explicit and observable client content and involves communicating an inferred component with the intention of adding new knowledge, understanding and or meaning.
Interpretation
Condensing the main points of what the client is saying or feeling in a session. It covers the primary components of the session so the client has an opportunity to recap key points of the session before it ends.
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