Licensure Flashcards
Social workers in this role are able to identify and clarify problems, explore resolution strategies, select the appropriate strategy, and develop the capacity to resolve problems.
Counselor
Social workers in this role link individuals and groups to resources and services
Broker
Social workers in this role act on direct behalf of individuals and groups.
Advocate
Social workers in this role seek institutional change on behalf of a disadvantaged group
Activist
A person handling emotions in a socially acceptable way, such as an angry person channels their feelings with boxing.
Sublimation
3 stages of Substance Abuse Treatment
- Stabilization
- Rehabilitation
- Maintenance
Closed, disorganized, stagnant, using up available energy
Entropy
Homeostasis
Steady state
Exchange of energy and resources between systems that promote growth and transformation
Negative Entropy
A lack of clarity of role
Role Ambiguity
The role is carried out in an expected way (parent-child role; social worker-client role)
Role Complementarity
The role expectations of others differ from ones own
Role Discomplementarity
When 2 or more individuals switch roles
Role Reversal
Incompatible or conflicting expectations of roles
Role Conflict
A treatment approach in which roles are enacted in a group context.. Members of the group re-create their problems and devote themselves to the role dilemmas of each member
Psychodrama
Stages of Group Development
- ) Preaffiliation : (developing trust)
- ) Power & Control : (struggles for individual autonomy)
- ) Intimacy: Utilizing self in group
- ) Differentiation: acceptance of each other as distinct individuals
- ) Separation/Termination: Independence
This occurs during group decision making when discussion strengthens a dominant point of view and results in a shift to a more extreme position than any of the members would adopt on their own.
Group Polarization
Clients have the capacity to grow, change, and adapt. (Strengths Perspective)
Humanistic Approach
Understanding individual behavior in light of the environmental contexts in which a client lives or acts
(PIE) Person-In-Environment Theory
Arises when a person has to choose between two contradictory attitudes and beliefs.
Cognitive Dissonance
Repeating noises and phrases. Associated with Autism
Echolalia
Id, EGO, SUPEREGO
Freud
Contains biological urges and impulses such as survival, sex, and aggression. Pleasure principles.
Id
Manages between the Id and the constraints of the real world.
Ego
The moral component of personality. It contains all morals learned from parents & society. Forces the ego to conform to reality and morality.
Superego
Behaviors that are insynct with the ego (NO GUILT)
Syntonic
Behaviors that are not insynct with the ego (GUILT)
Dystonic
5 stages of Psychosexual Development- Freud
- ) Oral
- ) Anal
- ) Phallic
- ) Latency
- ) Genital
The inability to progress normally from one stage into another
Fixation
From birth to 12 months, activities include sucking, biting, and chewing.
Oral Stage
Age 2, when the child is being potty trained. Actions include bowel movements.
Anal Stage
Ages 3-5, Genitals formed.
Phallic Stage
Age 5 to puberty. Sexuality is latent or dormant.
Latency Stage
Begins at puberty. Sexual urges return
Genital Stage
Who developed his own school of thought known as “Individual Psychology”? He believed that the main motivation for human behavior are not sexual urges, but striving for perfection.
Alfred Adler
Who created the concept of human development?
Erik Erikson
Who is associated with Cognitive Development?
Jean Piaget
This stage of cognitive development is from birth to 2 yrs.this is when babies gain knowledge about the world from their physical interactions with it
Sensorimotor
This stage of cognitive development is from ages 2-7. Children begin to engage in pretend play, they believe in in magical thinking or symbolic thinking, they are very curious about their surroundings
Pre-operational
This stage of cognitive development is from ages 7-11 years old. This begins the appropriate use of logic and beginning of abstract thought,
Concrete Operational
Risk factors that cannot be changed by interventions such as past history of violent behavior or demographic information
Static Risk Factors
Risk factors that can be changed by interventions such as living situation, treatment of psychiatric symptoms, abstaining from drugs and alcohol use, access to weapons.
Dynamic Risk Factors
What ethnic group may respond to psychotropic drugs differently than clients from other ethnic groups?
Asian clients. They typically require lower doses of mediations and may experience more severe side effects from the same doses given to other clients.
Refers to an individuals pattern of physical and emotional arousal towards other people. People do not choose it, is simply apart of who they are.
Sexual Orientation
Refers to sexual contacts or actions (What people do sexually) . It can be influenced by peer pressure, family expectations, cultural expectations, religious beliefs etc.
Sexual Behavior
Refers to the way people present their sexual preferences.
Sexual Identity
An orientation that holds ones own culture, ethnic, or racial group as superior to others
Ethnocentrism
A society in which diverse members maintain their own traditions while cooperatively working together and seeing others traits as valuable
Pluralism
an interconnectedness of persons across the world
Globalization
A structured way of observing and describing a clients current state of mind under the domains of appearance, attitude, behavior, mood and affect, speech, thought process, thought content, perception, cognition, insight, and judgement.
Mental Status Examination
Mental Status Examination looks at what when it comes to appearance
Facial expressions, grooming, dress, gait
Mental Status Examination looks at what when it comes to Orientation
Awareness of time and place, events
Mental Status Examination looks at what when it comes to Speech pattern
speech is slow, slurred, pressured, flat, calm
Mental Status Examination looks at what when it comes to Affect/Mood
Mood as evidenced by behavior and clients statements (sad, jittery, mad, manic)
Mental Status Examination looks at what when it comes to Impulsive/potential for harm
Impulse control especially suicidal thoughts or wanted to harm others
Mental Status Examination looks at what when it comes to Judgement/iNSight
ability to predict the consequences of his or her actions, to make sensible decisions
Mental Status Examination looks at what when it comes to Thought Processing/Reality Testing
delusions, hallucinations, psychotic
Mental Status Examination looks at what when it comes to Intellectual Functioning/Memory
level of intelligence and of recent and remote memory functions
The bodies transport system, organs that transport blood throughout the body. The heart pumps the blood and the arteries and veins transport it
Circulatory System
Organs that break down food into protein, vitamins, minerals, fats , in which the body needs for energy, growth, and repair.
Digestive System
A group of glands that produce the bodys long distance messengers or hormones.
Endocrine System
Bodys defends system against infections and diseases.
Immune System
Also a defense system for the body, it filters out organisms that cause disease, produces white blood cells, and generates disease fighting antibodies.
Lymphatic system
Tissues that work with the skeletal system to control movement of the body
Muscular System
The brain, the spinal cord, and nerves. It sends, receives, and processes nerve impulses.
Nervous System
Producing children, sperm of the male fertilizes the females egg
Reproductive System
Brings all the air into the body and removes carbon dioxide
Respiratory System
Bones, ligaments, and tendons, shapes the body to protect organs
Skeletal system
Eliminates waste from the body in the form or urine. The kidneys remove waste from the blood.
Urinary System
Existing with or at the same time, having two illnesses at the same time.
Comorbid
Not recommended or safe to use (A medication or tx would not be described because it could have serious consequences.
Contraindicated
False, fixed belief despite evidence to the contrary (believing something that is not true)
Delusion
Confusion with regard to a person, time, or place
Disorientation
Disturbance or change in the usually integrative functions of memory, identity, perception or consciousness.
Disassociation