LCSW Prep Flashcards
is recurrent drug use that results in disruption of academic, social, and occupational functioning or in legal or psychological problems.
Drug abuse
is the location – in a neighborhood, community or state – of social or human agencies sensitive to the delivery of services needed by a particular clientele.
Service accessibility
is the requirement to respond and provide services in such a manner that clients are assured that high levels of standards are met.
Professional accountability
agencies and programs supported by those agencies is a voluntary activity used to determine to what degree an agency meets or exceeds standards.
Accrediting
Completion of a predetermined treatment/services regimen, with no further treatment services prescribed, is known as
Achieved Treatment or Service Goals
A research design typically used for planning and community organization, includes data collection with the purpose of directly dealing with a social problem through development and implementation of services programs.
Action Research
Pertains to intense conditions or disturbances of short duration.
Acute
Mental disorders lasting under six months are acute; those lasting more than six months are termed
Chronic
A set of health, personal or social services delivered to individuals who require short-term assistance. Acute care is usually provided in hospitals or community social agencies where the extended treatment of long-term care is not expected.
Acute Care
A physiological or psychological dependence on a chemical resulting in increased tolerance and in withdrawal symptoms when the substance is unavailable.
Addiction
include alcohol, tobacco, narcotics, and many sedative drugs.
Addictive Substances
include demographic and clinical data collected for the purpose of making decisions regarding admission, treatment regimen, interventions, and intervention implementation. A clinical record includes the following: client’s name, address, telephone number, date of birth, sex, race/ethnic origin, presenting problem, date of initial interview or intake date and location of last treatment episode, referral source, and recommendations for aftercare services.
Contents of a client or clinical record
Post-discharge activities offered on an as-needed basis and geared to assist the client maintain or improve on the progress made during treatment are defined as
Aftercare
are not typically part of any case management responsibility for the client – and it is the client who initiates contact with the program – but they may serve as a means for relapse prevention and determining a client’s status.
Aftercare services
a viral disease, usually fatal, that prevents the body’s immune system from functioning. The AIDS virus is transmitted through exchanges of body fluids such as infected blood or semen. Individuals infected with the AIDS virus tend to become ill with a variety of illnesses such as pneumonia or cancer.
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
provide details regarding psychoactive drugs and alcohol used in the past; preferred drugs; frequency of use; route of administration; age and year of first use of alcohol and each drug; previous experience with overdose, withdrawal, adverse drug reactions; and attempts at alcohol/drug abuse treatment.
Alcohol and drug histories
a physical and at times a psychological dependence on the consumption of alcohol which may lead to social, mental or physical impairment.
Alcoholism
a drug that stimulates the cerebral cortex, tends to increase one’s mental alertness temporarily. Amphetamine, known on the street as “bennies,” “uppers,” and “speed,” is addictive and requires increased doses as tolerance develops.
Amphetamine
a street term for the psychedelic or hallucinogenic drug PCP (phencyclidine).
Angel dust
a regulated drug which induces nausea when taken with alcohol which and is experienced as aversive by individuals who use alcohol.
Antabuse
a research design used in the study of social and psychological phenomena or dynamics and in finding solutions to immediate social and psychological problems.
Applied research
a data collection and analysis process used to determine the nature, cause, and progression of a problem. Assessment is fundamental to treatment plan development and information acquired during this process is useful in the identification and selection of treatment models and interventions. Assessment can also assist in the determination of a client’s strengths and weaknesses and may influence the treatment process.
Assessment
individuals who are vulnerable to or may be adversely affected by a social, psychological or environmental circumstance.
At-risk clients
global inspections and assessments of services or clinical records of an individual or organization. Service audits are most often used to verify clinical, or organization services and the various processes used in the delivery of services or meeting organizational missions.
Service audits
drugs that act on the central nervous system, are often used to assist in sleep or to control convulsive disorders.
Barbiturates
a tendency for findings to lean in a particular direction.
Statistical bias
a process which involves the management of social work activities and service providers from other disciplines who are simultaneously serving the needs of a client or client group. Case integration usually involves the delivery of services which are consistent, non-duplicative, and directed toward achieving similar treatment or services goals and objectives.
Case integration
a predetermined geographic region, neighborhood or community in which potential clients are served by a designated social agency.
Catchment area
Jean Piaget developed the most comprehensive ______ theory by dividing human development into four stages; the sensorimotor stage (birth to age 2), the preoperational stage (ages 2 to 7), the concrete operations stage (ages 7 to 11), and the formal operations stage (age 11 to adulthood).
Jean Piaget developed the most comprehensive cognitive theory
a set of subjects who are matched in every respect with another group but who are not provided or exposed to the intervention or variable being studied.
Control Group
a numerical index of the extent to which two variables are related.
Correlation Coefficient
a statistical method used to determine the relationship between variables and pattern of variation between two situations where change in one is associated with change in the other.
Correlation
a research design in which a researcher collects data on the subject under investigation at one point in time, as in a one-time survey; it may also be a comparison of subjects who represent different aspects of a single variable.
Cross-sectional research
a method for assessing the relationship between two variables using tabular methods
Cross-tabulation
both a philosophy and a perspective for understanding, suggests that specific norms or rituals can only be understood accurately in the context of a culture’s goals, social history, and environmental demands.
Cultural relativism
refers to the absence of certain socialization experiences that an individual may need to copy effectively in social situations that are different from past experiences. An individual or group of individuals deprived of specific cultural experiences may often lack social skills, values or attitudes needed to effectively deal with differing cultures.
Cultural deprivation
refers to the retention of customs, habits, and technologies even though they have become obsolete or irrelevant to new standards set by the prevailing culture.
Cultural lag
objective assessments of the resources needed to accomplish specified objectives.
Feasibility studies
an agreement to participate expressed by gestures, signs, actions or statements that are interpreted as agreement or by unresisting silence or inaction.
Implied consent
the granting permission by a client to a Social Worker to use specific interventions and models in the provision of services, along with the acknowledgment of risk factors in the use of the interventions or models.
Informed consent
refers to activities directed toward improving or changing the social order, including such efforts as political action, community organization, education, and advocacy. Social workers interested in macro practice consider the socio political, historical, economic, and environmental forces which affect the human condition.
Macro Practice
activities focus on the client’s psychosocial conflicts. Micro practice is designed to assist in solving problems experienced by individuals, families, and small groups.
Micro Practice
a structured interview in which the Social Worker attempts to acquire specific information from the client by asking specific questions. Objective interviews, which tend not to be therapeutic, are conducted during the intake phase of treatment/services.
Objective Interview
a research process aimed at determining whether a program is achieving its objectives and whether the results are due to the predetermined interventions.
Outcome evaluation
are tasks needed to perform those activities delegated to Social Workers upon entry into the work force.
Knowledge, skills, and abilities
best defined as “becoming a human being.” Human beings become who they are because of their genetic makeup and social pressures. Human beings are influenced by major social factors; family, religion, community, education, government, and self.
Human socialization
the individual has a high tolerance for alcohol, drinks in response to physiological withdrawal symptoms, and puts drinking ahead of all other activities.
Primary Alcoholism
includes such concerns as those of individuals who are experiencing a major psychiatric disorder before the onset of drinking problems. The most common symptom of secondary alcoholism is affective disorder and antisocial personality disorder.
Secondary alcoholism
is characterized by heavy or excessive drinking that starts soon after experiencing a perceived crisis, such as the death of a loved one, surviving an accident or crime victimization.
Reactive alcoholism
The two most often used classification systems of alcohol abuse and dependence are the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).
