Definitions Flashcards
Folie a deux
A shared delusion between two or more people.
Secondary Trauma
The phenomenon by which care providers begin to identify with the traumatic feelings of those they help, including physical symptoms such as loss of sleep.
Burnout
The process by which a care provider begins to feel cynical and dissatisfied with their work, having become disenchanted with a lack of apparent progress on the part of clients.
Compassion Fatigue
The combination of secondary trauma and burnout. The social worker takes on the physical symptoms of secondary trauma as well as the emotional effects of burnout.
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
A widely used psychological test designed to measure a child’s cognitive abilities and intelligence across various domains.
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
A projective test used to assess a person’s emotional and cognitive processes.
Rorschach Inkblot Test
A projective test that reveals underlying thought disorders and emotions.
Beck Youth Inventories
Measures emotional and social well-being.
Contraindicated
Refers to a treatment that must not be used for some reason.
Indicated
A treatment that one should use.
Paradoxical
A treatment whose effect seems contradictory to the treatment offered.
Equifinality
The notion that family systems can accomplish the same goals using various methods or routes.
Homeostasis
Stability or the perception that families are always seeking a sense of balance.
Subsystems
The organizational systems within the family structure and often help identify the family hierarchy
Open boundaries
Allow members to interact without much restriction
Closed Boundaries
Families with strict boundaries
Stratification
Describes the structured inequality of entire categories of people who have unequal access to social rewards.
Discrimination
The practice of treating categories of people differently based on race, sex, religion, etc.
Racism
The practice of believing one group of people is less valuable based solely on their race.
Group Polarization
Group members adopting more extreme positions or attitudes after discussions, leading to an amplification of their initial viewpoints.
First-order Changes
Superficial behavioral changes that do not meaningfully alter the underlying issue or structure of the problem
Second-order Changes
Fundamentally change the dynamics of interactions and patterns of behaviors such that the foundation of the relationship shifts in a meaningful way.
Positive Regard
Viewing clients as people worthy of care, support, and empathy with strengths. Positive regard emphasizes the concept that clients are capable of making progress and possess strengths.
Interpretation
A strategy that involves pulling together patterns of behavior to get a new understanding.
Reframing
A technique where the clinician states a problem in a different way to help the client see other solutions.
Universalization
Universalization employs generalizing and normalizing a behavior.
Comorbid
Refers to diseases or conditions that are present simultaneously in a client or patient and is generally unrelated to substance use.
Co-occurring
Describes the existence of both a mental illness and a substance-use diagnosis in the same individual.
Confrontation
Occurs when the clinician calls attention to something a client states or a behavior they report.
Clarification
When a clinician reformulates a problem in the client’s own words to ensure they understand correctly.
