Individual Practice

Question 1

Harriet Bartlett

Answer 1

Theorist that focused on helping people identify it and resolve or reduce problems arising out of dis equilibrium between individuals groups in the environment; and to seek out and strengthen maximum potential of individuals

Question 2

Eda Goldstein

Answer 2

Theorist that focused on helping people find the means and opportunity by which they can work out final alternatives for and deal with internal interpersonal and environmental conditions

Question 3

William E. Gordon

Answer 3

Theorist focused on matching coping capacities of the individual and qualities of the environment to enhance individual potential and relieve environmental problems

Question 4

Gordon Hamilton

Answer 4

Theorist focused on releasing resources and the immediate environment and capacities of the individual that allow for a fuller life

Question 5

Helen Perlman

Answer 5

Theorist focused on helping individuals effectively cope with social functioning problems

Question 6

Mary Woods and Florence Hollis

Answer 6

Theorists focusing on helping people cope with intrapsychic, interpersonal, and environmental problems that cause personal suffering

Question 7

Goals

Answer 7

Central purposes are to help people resolve problems, improve social functioning, achieve desired change, and fulfill self-defined aspirations

Question 8

Focus

Answer 8

Centrality of the person-in-situation

Question 9

Problems

Answer 9

Stress internal psychological processes, external social and environmental conditions, and the interplay between them

Question 10

Social functioning

Answer 10

Focus on social functioning and role expectations, emphasizing the right of individuals to define their roles and to meet their requirements in unique, self-determined ways

Question 11

Values

Answer 11

All theories hold similar basic values, including: worth of the individual, rights of the individual to have access to services,; self-determination; confidential; and opportunity to fulfill potential without regard to race, sexual orientation, gender, or class

Question 12

Differences in approaches based on psychological theory

Answer 12

Psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive

Question 13

Changes in length of time needed to accomplish a goal

Answer 13

Those with a focus on personality change need an extended period of time for treatment (open-ended, long-term treatment)
Those with a focus on behavioral, cognitive change or problem-solving emphasize shorter-term treatment (crisis intervention, task-centered treatment, cognitive, problem-solving, behavioral)

Question 14

Different loci of change

Answer 14

Individual, couple, family, social system, intersectional

Question 15

Different approaches based on goal of change

Answer 15

Personality change, behavior change, social system change

Question 16

Different foci of assessment

Answer 16

Intrapsychic (psychodynamic)
Interpersonal (psychosocial, family systems)
Environmental strengths and problems
Intersection/interaction of of intrapsychic, interpersonal, and environmental factors (life model or ecological)

Question 17

Who was the greatest influence in psychoanalytic theory

Answer 17

Sigmund Freud

Question 18

Psychodynamic Theory-based social work approaches

Answer 18

Psychosocial, problem-solving, crisp intervention, task-centered casework, planned short-term treatment

Question 19

What are the assumptions about human behavior associated with psychodynamic approaches

Answer 19

1. Individuals seen within context of their environment, interacting with family and other social systems, and influenced by personal experiences
2. Conscious, unconscious, rational, and irrational motivations govern individual behavior
3. Individuals can change and grow under appropriate conditions throughout the life cycle

Question 20

What are the motivations for change associated with psychodynamic approaches

Answer 20

1. Disequilibrium evokes anxiety and releases energy to change
2. Conscious and unconscious needs and wishes
   Relationship with clinician or group (group treatment setting)

Question 21

What are the vehicles for change associated with psychodynamic approaches

Answer 21

1. Development of insight and resolution of emotional conflicts lead to the possibility for behavior change
2. Corrective emotional experience in relationship with the worker
3. Changes in affective, cognitive, or behavioral patterns that evoke change in interpersonal relationships
4. Changes in the environment

Question 22

What are the roles of relationship associated with psychodynamic approaches

Answer 22

1. Conscious use of relationship can stimulate motivation and energy to change
2. Corrective emotional experience
3. Client and client’s needs are central. Worker only uses self-disclosure purposefully and for client’s benefit

Question 23

Transference

Answer 23

Client brings their relationship history to treatment. Some transference dynamics interfere with treatment but should be seen and worked with as potential vehicles for enhancing client self-understanding and for changing problematic interpersonal patterns.

Question 24

Countertransference

Answer 24

Worker brings their relationship history into relationship

Question 25

What ways can social workers use to deal with countertransference

Answer 25

1. Supervision and consultation to mediate countertransference reactions.
2. Worker attending therapy to deal with countertransference

Question 26

Dynamic understanding

Answer 26

How do different aspects of client’s personality and their important relationships interact to produce/influence total functioning

Question 27

Etiological understanding

Answer 27

What are the causative factors that produced presenting problem and that influence client’s attempt to deal with it