Interventions/Therapy

Question 1

•Aims to change behavioral, emotional, and
thinking patterns associated with dysfunction

• Developed to treat intense emotional swings,
impulsiveness, confusion regarding the self
(identity), and suicidal behavior

• Teaches mindfulness, interpersonal
effectiveness, emotion regulation, distress
tolerance, and self-management.

• Good for Borderline Personality Disorder

Answer 1

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Question 2

• Change through understanding multigenerational
dynamics.

• Individuals cannot be understood in isolation
from one another, but rather as a part of their
family.

• Family members are driven to achieve a balance
of internal and external differentiation. which
causes anxiety, triangulation, and emotional
cutoff.

• This can be changed by understanding
multigenerational or current family dynamics and
patterns.

Answer 2

Bowen Family Therapy

Question 3

• Change through finding meaning in life

• Founded upon the belief that it is the striving to
find a meaning in one’s life that is the primary,
most powerful motivating and driving force

• Understanding purpose

Answer 3

Logotherapy

Question 4

Change through increased awareness of here and-now experience.

• Focuses on the process, what is actually
happening, and the content, what is being talked
about.

• Emphasizes what is going on in the present moment within both the client and the therapist
rather than what has happened.

• Empty chair technique example of bringing issue
into present moment

Answer 4

Gestalt Therapy

Question 5

• Change through insight/understanding of early
unresolved/unconscious issues

• Insight oriented therapy
• Explore client’s transference
• Identify defense mechanisms

Answer 5

Psychodynamic Therapy

Question 6

• Change behavior through reinforcements and
punishment

• Identify the problem, monitor behavior, reinforce
desired behavior

• Shaping is a form of operant conditioning in
which the increasingly accurate approximations
of the desired response are reinforced.

• Good for children with behavioral problems

Answer 6

Behavioral Therapy

Question 7

• Change happens by learning to modify
dysfunctional thought patterns

• Clients explore patterns of thinking and beliefs
that lead to self-destructive behaviors.

• Once an individual understands the relationship
between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, he or
she is able to modify or change his or her
patterns of thinking to cope with stressors in a
more positive manner.

• Focus on automatic thoughts, schemas,
assumptions, beliefs

Answer 7

Cognitive Therapy

Question 8

Change happens through supporting clients to
take action to address the problems in their
lives. Short term.

• Focus of help is on client-defined problems and
goals; Social worker is open about purposes and
nature of service eschews hidden agendas.

• The client’s problems, goals, and the nature and
duration of service is explicitly stated and
agreed upon by both the social worker and client.

• Change is affected primarily through problem-solving actions or tasks the client and practitioner undertake OUTSIDE the interview. The social
a worker helps clients select tasks

Answer 8

Task-Centered/Problem-Solving

Therapy

Question 9

• Change through remodeling the family’s
organization

• Many family problems arise as a result of
maladaptive boundaries and subsystems within
the family system.

• A systems approach that addresses the relationship dynamics of the whole family

• The therapist helps the family understand how
family structure (relationships and hierarchies)
can be changed, the impact of rituals and rules,
and how new patterns of interaction can be
integrated into the family.

Answer 9

Structural Family Therapy

Question 10

• Change through recognizing disempowering
social forces and empowering clients. The therapist helps the client recognize these disempowering forces or influences, a process that can ultimately empower the client.

• The therapist recognizes that with every
symptom there is a strength and also shows the
a client that she is her own rescuer and equal to
the therapist.

• Good for eating disorders

Answer 10

Feminist Therapy

Question 11

• Change occurs through accessing client’s
strengths and resources.

• This is a brief, goal-directed therapy focused on
client’s strengths and resources

• Focuses on what the client wants to achieve
instead of focusing on the problems

• Focuses on the client’s strengths and resources in order to create a more effective future

Answer 11

Solution-Focused Therapy

Question 12

Pertaining to the cognitive, emotional, and volitional mental processes that consciously and unconsciously motivate one’s behavior; These processes are the product of the interplay among one’s genetic and biological heritage, the socio-cultural milieu, past and current realities, perceptual abilities, distortion, and one’s unique
experiences and memories.

Answer 12

Psychodynamic

Question 13

The conceptual orientation and treatment application that builds on and modifies principles of behaviorism, taking into account some internal cognitive processes; emphasizes reciprocal relationships and the ability to learn new responses through observing and imitating
others.

Answer 13

Social Learning Theory

Question 14

The social worker’s revelation of personal information, values, and behaviors to the client; is used in limited circumstances where it serves a therapeutic purpose or is designed to help achieve the client’s goal.

Answer 14

Self-Disclosure

Question 15

A therapeutic procedure, most commonly used in
psychoanalysis and other insight therapies, in which the professional encourages the client to express whatever thoughts or emotions come to mind without providing any distracting external cues.

Answer 15

Free Association

Question 16

Concepts, values, and techniques that emphasize
people’s potential rather than their dysfunctions;
Professionals help clients achieve their positive goals by developing the therapeutic relationship and processing the “here and now.”

Answer 16

Humanistic Orientation

Question 17

The therapeutic practice used in helping clients
experiencing emotional change and distress to promote effective coping that can lead to positive growth and change by acknowledging the problem, recognizing its impact, and learning new or more effective behaviors for coping with similar predictable experiences.

Answer 17

Crisis Intervention

Question 18

A rehearsal of behaviors that can be useful in a
subsequent situation to fulfill some expectation or achieve some goal; also a re-experiencing of the past as one imagines being another person to elicit self-awareness and understanding of others.

Answer 18

Role-Playing

Question 19

A technique primarily used in group therapy in which clients perform roles, often playing the part of themselves in various socially stressful situations and sometimes playing the parts of their antagonists.

Answer 19

Psychodrama

Question 20

The techniques used by professionals to suggest or
demonstrate desired actions or responses to a client and then encourage the client through the description, role-playing, and demonstrations to behave similarly; with practice the client can then achieve the desired action outside of the professional’s office.

Answer 20

Behavior Rehearsal/Shaping

Question 21

The conclusion of the social worker-client intervention process; a systematic procedure for disengaging the working relationship; involves evaluating the progress toward goal achievement and anticipating how to resolve future problems and find additional resources.

Answer 21

Termination

Question 22

A technique used with individuals or families to help someone understand a symptom or pattern of behavior by seeing it in a different context; Within a family, this technique changes the understanding of the problem from an individual’s illness to a family problem.

Answer 22

Reframing

Question 23

In systematic opinion research and clinical interviews, a form of inquiry that permits respondents to give extensive answers.

Answer 23

Open-Ended Question

Question 24

The process of teaching clients with mental illness and their family members about the nature of the illness, including its etiology, progression, consequences, prognosis, treatment, and alternatives.

Answer 24

Psychoeducation

Question 25

Questions are designed to encourage the client to reveal specific information concisely and factually, without opinion, embellishment, or detail; This is often done to keep the client from digressing or providing irrelevant information.

Answer 25

Closed-Ended Questions

Question 26

An orientation in social work and other professional practices that emphasize the client’s resources, capabilities, support systems, and motivations to meet challenges and overcome adversity; emphasizes the client’s assets.

Answer 26

Strengths Perspective

Question 27

An approach in counseling that emphasizes a warm, permissive, accepting atmosphere to encourage the client to discuss problems freely; also called client-centered therapy; The therapist prompts and encourages the client to initiate exploration and follow ideas and feelings.

Answer 27

Nondirective Role

Question 28

The social worker’s summary judgment as to the problem to be solved; may include diagnostic labels, expressions of the problem, existing assets and resources, the prognosis of the outcome, and a plan to solve the problem.

Answer 28

Psychosocial Assessment

Question 29

A technique in which the social worker clarifies and
shows the client what his or her feelings are in the
moment and encourages further expression and
understanding of those feelings (often through
paraphrasing).

Answer 29

Reflective Listening