Foundations Flashcards
Which theory tries to explain human behavior by looking at a person’s learned associations that they have acquired through past experience?
Behavioral theory tries to explain human behavior by looking at a person’s learned associations that they have acquired through past experience. Behavioral theory is a fundamental theory in social work.
BioPsychoSocial
Biological, psychological, psychosocial, and spiritual
Each person has four dimensions: biological, psychological, psychosocial, and spiritual. These dimensions shape who the person is and how they interact with the surrounding environment.
The Bio in Biopsychosocial assesses the client’s genetics, hormones, or physical trauma
The biopsychosocial model suggests that biological, psychological, and social factors are responsible for a client’s health and disease issues. A client’s biological influences would also include infections, nutrition, and toxins.
The psychological component assesses the client’s emotional turmoil or lack of self-control. The social factor assesses the client’s religion, culture, poverty level, and level of education.
Which theory explains human behavior by looking at an individual’s thought process?
Cognitive theory explains human behavior by looking at an individual’s thought process.
Which theory explains human behavior in terms of conscious and unconscious desires?
Psychodynamic theory explains human behavior in terms of conscious and unconscious desires.
Which theory explains human behavior in terms of a story, or how individuals arrange their lives based on story lines in order to give their lives meaning?
Narrative theory explains human behavior in terms of a story, or how individuals arrange their lives based on story lines in order to give their lives meaning.
What dimensions exist in the social work definition of environment?
The dimensions of environment include the physical world, social institutions and social structure, families, small groups, formal organizations, communities, culture, and social movements.
Define Affective versus Cognitive versus Psychomotor?
In the context of psychology, affective usually means the domain of feelings or emotions. If a person is suffering from an affective problem, then they are dealing with some issue related to mood, relationships, or regulation of their emotions in some way.
Cognitive would refer to more intellectual or purely mental domains. Psychomotor refers to one’s interaction with the physical environment through motion.
Generations
The Sandwich Generation is a generation of people who care for their aging parents (65 or older) while supporting their own children (child under age 18 or supporting a grown child). In this scenario, Elizabeth feels like she must meet the needs of both her own children and her mother, making her feel “sandwiched” between two different generations.
The Silent Generation is the demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation. Demographers and researchers typically use mid-to-late 1920s as starting birth years and early-to-mid 1940s as ending birth years for this cohort.
Baby Boomers: Born between 1946 and 1964
Generation X: Born between 1965 and 1979
Members of Generation Y, Gen Y, or Millennials, were born between 1980 and 1994.
What are the four class levels in america?
Upper, middle, working, lower class:
The majority of Americans identify themselves as belonging to one of these four categories.
* The upper class consists of the wealthy or well-born individuals.
* The middle class consists of “white-collar workers.”
* The working class consists of “blue-collar workers.”
* The lower class consists of poor individuals with minimal economic security.
Who built the framework for classifying social work values based on four categories of core values?
Charles Levy built the framework for classifying social work values based on four categories of core values. He argued that core values for the profession of social work should be derived from these four categories.
Muriel Pumphrey identified the importance of teaching ethics to students. David Gordon focused on discrimination in the labor market. Lee Frankel was devoted to Jewish social work
What is the process by which we use our current schemes to interpret the external world?
Assimilation is the process by which we use our current schemes to interpret the external world. For example, a toddler might intentionally throw food on the floor during mealtimes as a way of assimilating the food items to their understanding of how items fall.
what is the process of creating new schemes after realizing that our current way of thinking doesn’t entirely capture the environment?
Accommodation is the process of creating new schemes after realizing that our current way of thinking doesn’t entirely capture the environment.
What is a general term that refers to the process of building schemes through direct interaction with the environment?
Adaptation is a more general term that refers to the process of building schemes through direct interaction with the environment.
What refers to the process that takes place internally, apart from the environment, and helps individuals understand their surroundings?
Organization refers to the process that takes place internally, apart from the environment, and helps individuals understand their surroundings.
How should SWers involve clients in service plan development? What are other key tenets of service plan development?
Social workers should involve clients in the development of the service plan.
When developing a service plan, social workers should integrate the client’s input as to what goals the client wants to reach and what interventions they feel comfortable with.
Social workers should develop a personalized service plan for each individual client, not a service plan that fits all clients. The service plan should have set goals and timelines; it should not be open-ended. The social worker should provide the client with a copy of the service plan so that both the social worker and the client can use it as a guide for implementation and evaluation.
