Direct and Indirect Practice

Question 0

In stage 1 of the SW Problem solving/establishing a working relationship, what are the main things to know?

Answer 0

Create a Climate for Change - a collaborative partnership
Establish a working relationship - build rapport with Client
Educate client and obtain informed consent - legal rights and confidentiality

Question 1

What are the five major stages of the Social Work problem solving process?

Answer 1

Stage 1 Establishing a working relationship
Stage 2 Identifying clients Problems
Stage 3 Helping clients create goals
Stage 4 Encouraging Client exploration & taking Action
Stage 5 Termination

Question 2

What are the main things to know within stage 2 of the SW Problem solving Process/Identifying clients problems?

Answer 2

Create a Therapeutic climate - Clients can identify and clarify their problems.
Conduct an initial assessment - psyho social assessment..whats has been going on, history, etc.
Develop a tentative hypothesis
Help clients gain focus - Because they can come in overwhelmed, not know which way to turn.
some questions to ask, what seems to be bothering you at this time? at do you find yourself ruminating about? etc. encourage them to tell their story.
Identify exceptions to ones problems
Help them overcome their own distortions.

Question 3

What are the SW PS process main items to know under stage 3 of Helping clients create goals?

Answer 3

Help clients create goals during the remainder of their work with you. help gain focus on questions like..What would you like to achieve from our work together? Where would you like to be in your life at this time? What specific feelings, behaviors, thoughts would you like to change? What would you like to reduce or eliminate from your life? What qualities would you like to acquire in your life that you do not have? What do you believe the ideal solution would be to the problems you have presented? This narrows down the task, and assist clients to identify specific goals.

Question 4

What are the main things to know in the SW PS process of stage 4/Encouraging client exploration & taking action?

Answer 4

Help the client to decide the various avenues and strategies to accomplish already identified goals.
Confront (challenge)
A good confrontation (care frontation) leads to more productive exploration.

see more in notes.

Question 5

What are the main things to know in the SW PS process of stage 5/Termination?

Answer 5

Help clients bring closure to their work. Help them consolidate what they have learned. assist them in developing a plan for continuing the change process on their own. Let the client know about termination a few session prior to termination.
Review the course of treatment (what learned, how learned, what was most helpful, their participation in the process).
Have an open door policy where they can return should they need you in the future.

Question 6

Bowen Family Therapy

Answer 6

Balance/imbalance of two forces, togetherness and individuality
Unresolved emotional attachment to ones family prevents differentiation.
families lie on continuum, there are no diff “types” of families such as The Schizophrenic Family.
Focuses on differentiation
observing triangles and detriangulating
Prerequisites are knowledge of family systems and strong motivation. genograms helpful

Question 7

Classical Conditioning

Answer 7

Type of learning by Pavlov experiments with dogs.

Question 8

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Answer 8

CBT psychotherapeutic approach that aims to influence problematic and dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions through a goal-oriented systematic procedure. Treatment can be for clinical and nonclinical problems. like mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, eating disorders, substance abuse disorders, and psychotic disorders.
brief and time limited
individual and group therapy it can be used
in cognitive oriented therapies, the objective is typically to identify and monitor thoughts, assumptions, beliefs and behaviors that are related and accompanied to debilitating negative emotions and to identify those which are dysfunctional, inaccurate, or simply unhelpful. This is to replace or transcend them with more realistic and useful ones.

Question 9

Group Therapy

Answer 9

Starting group therapy (psychotherapy) the development goes through different stages.

Stage 1 - Forming - group discuss the reasons why they have joined the group. Polite stage, everyone trying to make a first impression.
Stage 2 - Storming - everyone knows each other, start to take on roles. (leader, mediator, background) People stop being polite and start to tell what they really feel.
Stage 3- Norming - After the chaos, people start to calm down and assume their roles. People start to understand each other.
Stage 4- Performing - Group starts working on issues to reach goals established during the(Forming) stage. members listen to each other and provide feedback, advice and support.
Stage 5- Adjourning - people starts separating themselves from the group. This stage brings feelings such as anger, resentment, fear, sadness, anxiety, and denial. Normal for this stage.

No length of time for stages, but usually the first stage is the shortest.

Question 10

Bowen Family Therapy

Answer 10

Balance/imbalance of two forces, togetherness and individuality
Unresolved emotional attachment to ones family prevents differentiation.
families lie on continuum, there are no diff “types” of families such as The Schizophrenic Family.
Focuses on differentiation
observing triangles and detriangulating
Prerequisites are knowledge of family systems and strong motivation. genograms helpful

Question 11

Classical Conditioning

Answer 11

Type of learning by Pavlov experiments with dogs.

Question 12

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Answer 12

CBT psychotherapeutic approach that aims to influence problematic and dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions through a goal-oriented systematic procedure. Treatment can be for clinical and nonclinical problems. like mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, eating disorders, substance abuse disorders, and psychotic disorders.
brief and time limited
individual and group therapy it can be used
in cognitive oriented therapies, the objective is typically to identify and monitor thoughts, assumptions, beliefs and behaviors that are related and accompanied to debilitating negative emotions and ti identify those which are dysfunctional, inaccurate, or simply unhelpful. This is to replace or transcend them with more realistic and useful ones.

Question 13

Group Therapy

Answer 13

Starting group therapy (psychotherapy) the development goes through different stages.

Stage 1 - Forming - group discuss the reasons why they have joined the group. Polite stage, everyone trying to make a first impression.
Stage 2 - Storming - everyone knows each other, start to take on roles. (leader, mediator, background) People stop being polite and start to tell what they really feel.
Stage 3- Norming - After the chaos, people start to calm down and assume their roles. People start to understand each other.
Stage 4- Performing - Group starts working on issues to reach goals established during the(Forming) stage. members listen to each other and provide feedback, advice and support.
Stage 5- Adjourning - people starts separating themselves from the group. This stage brings feelings such as anger, resentment, fear, sadness, anxiety, and denial. Normal for this stage.

No length of time for stages, but usually the first stage is the shortest.

Question 14

Operant Conditioning

Answer 14

Forms an association between a Behavior and a consequence.
Also called response-stimulus or RS conditioning due to the response(behavior) and the stimulus that follows (consequence)

Question 15

What are the four possible consequences to any behavior?

Answer 15

Something Good can start or be presented,
Something good can end or be taken away,
Something Bad can start or be presented and,
Something Bad can end or be taken away

Question 16

Psychoanalytic Theory

Answer 16

Believes that our social-emotional functioning is largely shaped by previous psychological experiences.
Unconscious is thought to have influence over thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
psychoanalytic perspective suggest that humans progress through the oral, anal, phallic latency, and genital stages of development.

Question 17

Self Psychology

Answer 17

school of psychoanalytic theory created by Hein Kohut and developed in the United States. To understand self Psychology you need to understand these concepts. empathy, self-object, mirroring, idealizing, and alter ego. Kohut emphasized empathy as a tool in therapy.

Question 18

Social Learning Theory

Answer 18

That people lear by watching the behavior modeled by others.
Defensive and aggressive behaviors are thought to be frequently learned through observation rather than direct experience.
To change a behavior, people need corrective learning experiences and a belief in their efficacy. The expectation of efficacy is the conviction that one can successfully execute the behavior required to produce the outcomes.

Question 19

Social Role Theory

Answer 19

Role Theory is a social perspective in social pyschology that considers most of everyday activity to be the acting out of socially defined categories(mother, manager, teacher). Each role is a universe of rights, duties, expectations, norms and behavior a person has to face and to fulfill. (role, norms, role)

Question 20

Systems Theory

Answer 20

Maintains that everything in a system is connected and that change in one part of the system creates change in all other parts of the system. Systems are ordered or organized in some way and have patterned behavior that recurs over time.
have boundaries that are open or closed to those outside the system
Systems theorist believe in equifinality, meaning there are many ways to accomplish the same outcomes.

Question 21

Task Centered Theory

Answer 21

developed by William J. Reid and Laura Epstein. grew out of the psychodynamic model of the early 1960s.
1- course of treatment was brief (8 sessions) 2- focus was on key problem early in treatment, 3- both models helped the client develop specific goals and achieve them.
eclectic, yet empirical, approach.