Content Area III: Interventions With Clients/Client Systems

Question 1

What is the role of a social worker in increasing a clients motivation to change?

Answer 1

remove barriers that prevent change and increase intrinsic motivation

Question 2

Formative evaluations

Answer 2

ongoing processes that allow for feedback to be implemented during service delivery

Question 3

paradoxical intent

family therapy technique

Answer 3

prescribes the symptomatic behavior so the client realizes control over it and uses the strength of resistance to change

reverse psychology

family therapist suggests to the disruptive daughter that she continues her behavior

Question 4

covert modeling

Answer 4

when clients are asked to use their imagination, visualize the desired behavior, and describe it in detail

Question 5

Important components of a

behavioral objective

Answer 5

Includes:
* target behavior
* conditions under which the behavior will be performed
* criteria for determining when the acceptable performance of the behavior occurs.
* It is client centered

specific, measurable, relevant

John will make eye contact during conversations in practical arts class at least 75% of the time

Question 6

crisis intervention

Answer 6

focused on the “here and now”

Question 7

Goals of

crisis intervention

Answer 7

immediately relieve the stress experienced, return the client to a previous level of functioning or assist with regaining equilibrium, and help develop coping mechanisms.

Question 8

Most important goal of

case management

Answer 8

Avoid duplication and gaps in treatment care

Question 9

strengths-based intervention

Answer 9

focuses on client learning and competency

Question 10

Steps of

Policy Analysis

Answer 10

1. Understand policy context (history)
2. Assess policy impact
3. Develop advocacy strategy
4. Communicate and engage effectively

Question 11

First step of

Program Evaluation

Answer 11

Set goals and objectives

Question 12

First step in

Social Action

Answer 12

organize a task force

Question 13

Partializing

Answer 13

breaking issues down into manageable components to facilitate further discussion and problem solving

Question 14

Steps of

Care Coordination

Answer 14

1. Engagement
2. Assessment and Care Plan Development
3. Case management (problem solving issues and linking client with services)
4. Ongoing care as needed

Question 15

Covert modeling

Answer 15

when clients are asked to use their imagination, visualize the desired behavior, and describe it in detail

Question 16

Confrontation

Answer 16

calling attention to something

Question 17

immediate goal of social work services for a client in crisis

Answer 17

return to previous level of functioning

Question 18

primary objective of social work supervision

Answer 18

Assure the delivery of the most effective and efficient client services

Question 19

Stages of community engagement and participation

Answer 19

1. Orientation - community members get to know each other
2. Conflict - minor arguments and friction occur
3. Emergence - members agree on a course of action
4. Reinforcement - members decide and justify their decision

Question 20

Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974

Answer 20

• provides federal funding to support prevention, assessment, investigation, and prosecution around child abuse/neglect
• allows for grants to public agencies concerned with this issue

Question 21

Robert’s Seven Stage Crisis Intervention Model

Answer 21

1. Assess lethality of crisis
2. Establish rapport
3. Identify problems and define crisis
4. Address feelings
5. Explore coping alternatives
6. Develop action plan to restore functioning
7. Follow up

Question 22

Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975

Answer 22

• protections for children between the ages of 3 and 21
• free, appropriate public education
• Individual Education Programs (IEP’s) - services relevant to education provided for free

speech therapy

Question 23

Sympathetic response

Answer 23

supporting and condoning other person’s feelings

Question 24

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)

Answer 24

dealth with patients having greater access to their health records, as well as greater control over how those records are used

Question 25

structural family therapy

Answer 25

• examines roles and family organization
• focuses on change in understanding
• “joining” a family in order to restructure it

Question 26

Allocation

fiscal management technique

Answer 26

movement and distribution of resources, either internally or externally

Question 27

Cultural perspective

organizations

Answer 27

refers to organizations that develop their own mixture of values, presumptions, standards, and practices regarding how things should be done, until it becomes habit

Question 28

Enactment

Answer 28

• method in Structured Family Therapy
• Acting out dysfuntional patterns of behavior so the therapist can intervene and suggest more positive interactions to use outside of therapy

Question 29

cost-effectiveness analysis

Answer 29

studies benefits and aspects not available to a purely monetary analysis and tries to improve efficiency in resource use

Question 30

Problem-solving model

Answer 30

working with client to brainstorm solutions and then the client chooses one to try

Question 31

Multiethnic Placement Act (MEPA) of 1994

Answer 31

focuses on prohibiting discrimination against prospective adoptive families on the basis of race, color, or national origin

Question 32

Primary Prevention

Answer 32

preventing people from acquiring a disease or experiencing a problem

Question 33

Secondary Prevention

Answer 33

mitigating the harm of condition after it is already in place

Question 34

Tertiary prevention

Answer 34

managing the long-term consequences of acquired conditions

Question 35

Interpretation

Answer 35

drawing together behavioral patterns for deeper understanding

Question 36

Broker

Social Work Role

Answer 36

links individuals and groups to resources and services

Question 37

Referent power

Answer 37

Someone who has power who people look up to due to their charisma or identification with their power

Question 38

Strategic family therapy

Answer 38

• believes all problems have multiple origins
• addresses feedback loops that reinforce symptomatic behavior
• task-centered
• focused on change in behavior

Question 39

Symbolic modeling

Answer 39

A client watches a video of someone else performing the desired behavior