Diversity, social/economic justice, and oppression Flashcards
Refers to unfair treatment based on someone’s characteristics. And example would be refusing to hire someone because of their ethnicity.
Direct discrimination
Refers to situations in which a policy applies the same to everyone, or group of people are negatively impacted due to certain characteristics. For example, a company might require that everyone help unload shipment that come to the office.
Indirect discrimination
Unwanted bullying or humiliation intentionally directed to a person of minority status
Harassment
Refers to the unfair treatment received when a person reports discrimination and is not supported by authorities
Victimization
A form of treatment designed to help homosexuals become heterosexual through therapy and, sometimes, medical interventions.
Conversion therapy
Refers to discrimination taking place within a society or other institution.
Systemic discrimination
Social institution that regulates sexual behavior (monogamy), creates and provides for new society members, and socializes new society members.
Family
Social institution that provides explanations for the unexplainable, supports societal norms and values, and provides a means of coping with life situations.
Religion
Social institution that institutionalize is norms by creating laws, and forces, protects members of society, and provides a means of resolving conflict.
Government
Social institution that prepares society members to contribute to the society and specified rolls, teaching skills necessary to function within a society.
Education
Social institution that produces and distribute goods needed by society members, and provide services necessary to the society.
Economics
Process of working in operating in a hyper connected, international capacity.
Globalization
The scale can be designed to assess the clients perception of how certain stressors are influential.
Likert scale
The scale can be utilized to assess the impact of psychosocial stressors. This scale has more than 40 life changes including divorce, death of immediate family members, marriage, work termination, and retirement, and provide a quantitive level of stress associated with such major events.
Life events scale
What are the ABC’s of a problem?
Antecedent, behavior, and consequences
This is part of the problem that may be prefaced by the involvement of certain individuals in the clients life.
Antecedents
Comprised of both cognitive, or Personal, and environmental interactions or reactions to the behavior.
Consequences
This is a 21 question inventory used to measure present and severity of depression symptoms and individuals age 13 and older.
Beck Depression inventory – I I
This is a 32 question inventory designed for children who are at least six years old. Examines the perception the child has of each parent or caregiver and is often used in custody cases
Bricklin perceptual scale (BPS)
This is a 567 item inventory. It is one of the most widely administered objective personality test. It is used to determine indicators of psychopathology in adults aged 18 and older
Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI-2)
A 93 question inventory widely used to help people age 14 years or older determine what personality traits influence their perception of the world and decision making processes. A preference is identified within each of four different dimensions; extroverted (E) or introvert (I), sensing (S) or intuitive, (I) thinking or feeling(F), and judging (J) or perceiving (P).
Myers-Briggs type indicator
32- question inventory that determines the perception of personal happiness and satisfaction an individual’s age 17 and older.
Quality of life inventory (QOLI)
A narrative and visual task that typically requires individual to create a story and allows the practitioner insight into the individual underlying emotional state, desires, behavioral motives, and needs. It is used for individuals age 5 and older.
Thematic apperception test (TAT)
A visual test that records an individual’s perception and description of various inkblots. It’s used to determine underlying personality or thought disorders and individuals age 5 and older
Rorschach Test
A series of subtest services cognitive ability and individuals age 16 and older
Wechsler Adult intelligence scale-fourth edition
General screening for certain risky behaviors such as violent behavior, substance abuse problems, self harm, that may result in additional screenings, referral for treatment, or stronger outcomes such as institutionalization (in the instance of high suicide risk, for example). This screening often takes place in an initial consultations or as part of the individuals intake form may be administered on an ongoing basis at every session to make current.
Universal Risk screening
These typically include clinical assessment without any specific, prepared structure.
Unstructured methods
These include highly logical, regimented test and scales the likelihood of certain behavior patterns in a specified time frame.
Actuarial methods
Uses structured tools appropriate for the scope of the case, but allows for the judgment and flexibility of the practitioner to decide what information is useful and to note any external information that may not be cut by the standardized test
Structured professional judgment