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