Clinical Psych (Community and Consultation) Flashcards
A prevention program involves identifying children who exhibit early signs of emotional disturbance so they can be provided with special assistance from teacher’s aides and other paraprofessionals. This is an example of:
Secondary intervention
A program designed to improve the interpersonal skills of residents of a retirement community would be classified as a “primary prevention” when it is offered:
to all residents who want to participate
A psychology intern responds to her supervisor in the same way that a new client is responding to her (the intern) in therapy. This is referred to as:
Parallel Process
As described by Gerald Caplan, “theme interference” is:
A type of transference
he Health Belief Model (Becker, 1974) emphasizes
the individual’s readiness to take action
What is an example of consultee-centered case consultation?
helping a teacher recognize the early signs of drug abuse in high school students.
What is primary prevention?
making programs or creating strategies that promote mental or physical health of all members of an identified group or population
What is secondary prevention?
works to decrease prevalence by using early detection and prevention strategies
What is tertiary prevention?
works to reduce the duration and consequence of mental and physical disorders
What are the 2 primary goals of education?
1) increase preventative activities
2) educating the public
According to the Health belief model, health behaviours are influenced by what 3 things?
1) readiness to take action
2) cost/benefit analysis
3) internal and external cues that trigger a response to take action
Health locus-of-control model
health related behaviours reflect either the belief that one has the ability to control their health, or that health depends on uncontrollable factors
Define consultation
a process in which a human services professional assists a consultee with a work-related (or caretaking related) problem with a client system, with the goal of helping both the consultee and the client system in some specified way
Organizational Consultation
defines the entire organization as the consultee
Advocacy consultation
requires the consultant to adopt an explicit value orientation in order to foster the goals of a disenfranchised group
4 stages of consultation
- Entry
- Diagnosis
- Implementation
- Disengagement
client-centered consultation
consultant acts as an expert and works with the consultee to develop a plan that will enable the consultee to work more effectively with a client
consultee-centered consultation
goal to enhance the consultee’s performance –focus on the consultee’s skills, knowledge, and abilities, and/or objectivity
Theme interference
a type of transference that occurs when a past unresolved conflict related to a particular type of client or circumstance is evoked by and interferes with the consultee’s current situation
Program-centered Administrative consultation
involves working with one or more administrators (consultees) to resolve problems related to and existing problem
Consultee-centered Administrative consultation
goal is to help administrative-level personnel improve their professional functioning so they can be more effective in the future with regard to program development, implementation, and evaluation
Parallel Process
occurs when a therapist (supervisee) replicates problems & symptoms with the supervisor that are being manifested by the therapist’s client
Difference between consultation and supervision
-in supervision, the supervisor is in a position of power and both parties are often in the same profession
