Clinical Practice Flashcards
What does clinical practice seek to do?
Alleviate the internalized negative effects of environmental factors such as stress from health, vocational, family, and interpersonal problems
What is the workers role in clinical practice?
Helps individuals, couples, and families to modify attitudes, feelings, and coping behaviors that interfere with optimal social functioning
Where is clinical practice done?
Agencies or Private Practice Settings
What is assessment for in clinical practice?
Focused on the person-in-environment, with the goal of enhancing social functioning
What theoretical approaches are used in clinical practice?
Psychosocial
Problem-Solving
Behavior Modification
Cognitive Therapy
Crisis Intervention
Family Therapy
Group Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Ecological or Life Model
Task-Centered
Psychosocial
focuses on intrapsychic and interpersonal change; based on psychoanalytic theory, ego psychology, role, and systems theory
Problem-Solving
to solve discrete problems, based on psychosocial and functional approaches
Behavior Modification
for symptom reduction of problem behaviors and learning alternative positive behaviors
Cognitive Therapy
for symptom reduction of negative thoughts, distorted thinking, and dysfunctional beliefs
Crisis Intervention
Brief treatment of reactions to crisis situations to reestablish the client’s equilibrium
Family Therapy
treats the whole family system and sees the individual symptom bearer as indicative of a problem in the family as a whole
Group Therapy
a practice model in which group members can help and be helped by others with similar problems, get validation for their own experiences, and test new social identities and roles
Narrative Therapy
Uses the stories that people tell about their lives to reveal how they structure perceptions of their experiences; therapist co-constructs alternative, more affirming stories with the client
Ecological or Life Model
Focuses on life transitions, environmental pressures, and the maladaptive fit between individual and family or the larger environment; focuses on the interaction and interdependence of people and environments
Task-Centered
Focuses on accomplishing tasks to reinforce self-esteem and reestablish usual capacity for coping
What’re the assumptions and knowledge base used in clinical practice?
Individual growth, development, and behavior result from complex interaction of psychological and environmental factors
Theories of personality development
Systems Theory
DSM-5
Sociocultural factors are a significant influence, including ethnicity, immigration status, occupation, race, gender, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic class
What does the Ongoing Clinical Process Include?
Problem Assessment
Planning for Change
Determining the Intervention Locus
Evaluating Change
Problem Assessment
Identify forces that contribute to or maintain the problem
What is included in Problem Assessment?
Stresses that may impair functioning can originate in the individual, the individual’s system, or the system’s environment
DSM-5
Done to evaluate client’s strengths, to appraise the client-system’s strengths and weaknesses, and to identify supports or constraints that may influence change possibilites
What’s included in Planning for Change?
Criteria for Intervention Strategies
What is the criteria for Intervention Strategies?
Should be consistent with objectives
Should be evidence that strategy is effective
Must be consistent with professional values
What is included in Determining the Intervention Locus?
Behavioral: modify actions
Affective: modify feelings
Cognitive: modify thoughts or thought patterns
What is included in evaluating change?
Assess progress in achieving treatment goals
Assess effectiveness of treatment interventions
Determine areas still needing work
What’re the stages of clinical practice?
Beginning Stage
Middle Stage
Ending Stage