Clinical Terms Flashcards
A set of conscious or unconscious emotional reactions to a client experienced by the therapist. Occurs from therapist’s own developmental conflicts or past. Seek supervision when this occurs (not just colleague consultation).
Countertransference
The emotional reactions that are assigned to current relationships but originated in earlier experiences (often presenting as the feelings a client has towards a therapist). Discuss this experience and use it therapeutically.
Transference
The occurrence of coexistent diagnoses within an individual.
Dual Diagnosis
Having a second role with a client in addition to the client-therapist relationship.
Dual Relationship
Traits of personality, thought, behavior, and values that are incorporated by the individual who considers them acceptable and consistent with his or her overall true self.
Ego Syntonic
Traits of personality, thought, behavior, and values that are considered to be unacceptable, repugnant, or inconsistent with the individual’s perceptions - conscious or unconscious - of himself or herselfl
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 the 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.
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.
Evidenced Based Practices
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 principle of social work that allows clients to make their own choices about their treatment and their lives.
Self-determination is
When using reflection, the social worker is accurately describing the client’s verbal and non-verbal clues, listening and responding to not just the content, but the feelings of the client. The social worker
Reflection/Reflective Listening
A technique used to help clients see 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 behavior/communication. It goes beyond the explicit and observable client content and involves communicating an inferred component with the intention of adding new knowledge, understanding, or meaning.
Interpretation
Condensing the main points of what the client is saying or feeling in a session.
Summary
Addressing and bringing awareness to something the client may be overlooking, avoiding, or denying.
Confrontation
When a client makes a vague or ambiguous statement 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
