Current Practice Approaches Flashcards
What’re the Psychodynamic Theory-based Social Work Approaches?
psychosocial, problem-solving, crisis intervention, task-centered casework, planned short-term treatment
Where did Psychosocial theory originate?
Greatest influence was Sigmund Freud
What is Ego Psychology within Psychosocial Theory?
Psychoanalytic base, with a specific base on ego functions and adaptation, defense mechanisms, adaptations to an average “expected” environment, ego mastery and development through the life cycle, separation/individuation
What’re Social Science Theories?
role, family and small group, impact of culture, communication theory, and systems theory
What’re Biological Theories?
ecological, homeostasis, behavioral genetics, health, and illness
What assumptions are made about human behavior within Psychosocial Theories?
Individuals are always seen within the context of their environment, interacting with family and/or other social systems, and influenced by earlier personal experiences
Conscious, unconscious, rational, and irrational motivations govern individual behavior
Individuals can change and grow under appropriate conditions throughout the life cycle
What can be considered motivation for change in Psychosocial Theories?
Disequilibrium evokes anxiety and release energy to change
Conscious and unconscious needs and wishes
Relationship with the clinician or group in a group treatment settings
What can be considered vehicles for change in Psychosocial Theories?
Development of insight and the resolution of emotional conflict
Corrective emotional experience in relationship with the worker
Changes in affective, cognitive, or behavioral patterns that evoke changes in interpersonal relationships
Changes in the environment
How does the role of the therapeutic relationship influence the therapeutic process based on Psychosocial Theory?
Conscious use of relationship can stimulate motivation and energy to change
Corrective emotional experience
Client and client’s needs are central
Client brings his/her own relationship history to treatment; these dynamics can interfere with treatment
Therapist needs to be aware of his/her own relationship history and of his/her responses to particular clients
Client not feeling empowered due to hierarchal issues
When should self-disclosure occur?
Purposefully and when it benefits that client
What can transference be used for in positive ways when engaging with clients?
Can be used as a potential vehicle for enhancing client self-understanding and then changing problematic interpersonal patterns; can be understood as values or cultural differences
What are way a that a therapist can create awareness of countertransference?
Have supervision and use consultation
Go to own therapy sessions
What’re assessments used for?
Delineates the client’s presenting problem, and the client’s internal and environmental resources for addressing it
Determines if match is appropriate between client and therapist regarding presenting problem and availability of services
When are assessment done?
At the beginning of treatment
What’re the components of an assessment
Dynamic understanding, etiological understanding, clinical understanding
Dynamic understanding
How do different aspects of a client’s personality and his/her important relationships interact to produce or influence his/her total functioning?
Etiological understanding
What are the causative factors that produced the presenting problem and that influence the client’s attempt to deal with it?
Clinical understanding
Formulation of the client’s functioning (mental status, and accustomed defenses and coping style, including where pertinent, a clinical diagnosis)
Why are treatment plans important?
Focuses on key characteristics of the psychosocial approach is the development of a unique treatment plan based on the client’s situation
What do treatment plans consist of?
Client goals and the feasibility of meeting them, given the client’s capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses, and the availability of relevant agency or community services
What is the focus of a treatment plan?
Changing the individual, the environment, or the interaction between the two
What’re the phases of treatment?
Engagement/assessment
Contracting/goal-setting
Ongoing treatment/interventions
Termination
Engagement/assessment
Transition from application to client, enhancing motivation, dealing with initial resistance, establishing relationship around the work to be accomplished
Establish informed consent regarding confidentiality, and client’s and worker’s roles, rights, and responsibilities
Contracting/goal-setting
Mutual understanding between client and worker about goals, treatment process, the nature of the relationship and roles, and the intended allotted time