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.
Summary
Addressing and bringing awareness to something the client may be overlooking, avoiding or denying. We would not do this until we have established rapport with them. When a client engaging in therapy interfering behavior, it may be necessary.
Confrontation
This is used when the client makes a vague or ambiguous statement in order to understand in order to understand what they mean.
Clarification
These are questions the social worker asks to help the client dig deeper into their thoughts, feelings, and opinions.
Probing Questions
A social work ethical principle that involves working towards everyone having the same economic, political and social rights, protection, and opportunities.
Social Justice
A committee responsible for significant decisions and direction within an organization (including mission and vision, funding, staffing of high level positions and strategic planning).
Board of Directors
The process of improving an individual or organization’s abilities, skills, processes, and resources in order to expand, grow, and fulfill its mission.
Capacity Building
A ____ brings together people/groups/factions/political parties that join their resources and manpower to work towards a specific change/goal that individually they would be unable to achieve. These tend to be larger than a task force; there can be smaller subcommittees (task forces) that are grouped by an area of speciality and are assigned to complete specific tasks within a _____
Coalition
A _____ is any group or organization that is assembled for or assigned to complete a specific tasks. On the exam, assembling a task is something you may see around community organizing.
Task Force
Involves engaging with and empowering member members of a community to address a common problem and bring about positive change within the community. This involves coming alongside the community, and addressing issues identified by members of the community.
Community Organizing
The planning, development, and execution of a new program or service to meet an unmet need.
Program Development
____ programs effectiveness. Data can be gathered from an evaluation can be used to improve the services the program delivers.
Program or outcome evaluation
An organization that raises money privately to influence elections or legislations.
A political action committee
_____ _____analyzes the implementation of the program to determine whether each step of the program was executed effectively/examines how services are being carried out Example: If a goal is to respond to client inquiries within 12 hours, you would need to determine ways to find out if staff members are achieving this goal.
Process evaluation
___ gather together a small group of people to gather opinions, ideas, and beliefs on a particular subject.
Focus Group
The process of assessing an agency or organization’s ability to carry out a particular task.
Feasibility Study
An independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, including retirement, disability and survivor benefits.
Social Security Administration
A non-profit, tax-exempt organization.
501(c)3
A lobbying organization. Unlike a 501(c)3, it is not exempt from paying federal
taxes
501(c)4
A political action committee (PAC). Unlike a 501(c)3, it is not exempt from paying
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