Masters Flashcards
Three types of Oppositional Defiant Disorder in the DSM 5
Angry/irritable mood, Argumentative/defiant behavior, and vindictiveness
When doing research, what are the steps?
- Identify the problem
- Literature review
- Hypotheses can be formed
- Data needed
- Analytical methods
Pscyhosocial Assessment
An assessment written by the social worker that summarizes the client’s problems that need to be solved.
Progression efforts of community organization
- Orientation- those who are working together get to know each other
- Conflict- expected friction within the group
- Emergence- path forward that emerges from conflict
- Reinforcement- final decision making stage of the process and its justification by group members
Is it possible to predict that a client will harm themselves?
Not in a definitive way
When a parent attempts to correct a child’s behavior, the effectiveness of the punishment can be increased by:
Consistency, a warm parent-child bond, and explanations
Cluster B Personality Disorders
Borderline personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Antisocial personality disorder
Cluster A Personality Disorders
Paranoid personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder
Cluster C Personality Disorders
Avoidant
Dependent
Obsessive Compulsive personality disorder
What is “enactment” in structural family therapy?
Acting out dysfunctional patterns of behavior so the therapist can intervene and suggest more positive interactions to use outside of therapy.
Advantages of empathetic communication
Lowers client resistance
Increases client motivation
Increases client accountability
Reframing
Relabeling or Reframing invites the client to use language to see problems and possible solutions in a different way.
Clarification
Seeks to reformulate a problem in a client’s words.
Confrontation
The direct addressing of a specific item in therapy.
Interpretation
Attempts to draw together behavioral patterns for deeper understanding.
Risk associated with high doses of antipsychotics
Tardive Dyskinesia: abnormal movements of the face, lips, jaws, extremities, and trunk.
Hypothyroidism can exacerbate symptoms of which mental illness?
Depression: hypothyroidism can contribute to depression because when the thyroid functions below the level it should, it can cause dizziness, fatigue, lack of energy, and weight issues.
Cost-benefit analysis
Explicitly addresses the balance of expense and fiscal benefit.
Partializing techniques
Aimed at reducing the stress associated with a situation by breaking it down into smaller and more manageable problems.
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Designed to test a client’s perception, needs, motivations, and conflicts. Comprised of a set of pictures about which the client is invited to create a story.
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Projective test involving the perceptions of the client about a neutral visual stimulus.
Disengaged families
Those in which family members are emotionally distant from one another and find it difficult to connect in a meaningful way. More likely to form a coalition, which aligns certain family members against others.
Enmeshed families
Opposite of disengaged families and coalitions are uncommon in these situations.
Reliability in Psychological Testing
Main goal is to minimize error
External validity
Attempts to address how much the conclusions can be exported to the general population
Face Validity
Refers to the apparent, subjective integrity of the construct measurements.
Test Re-test Reliability
Refers to the consistency of an instrument from one time to another.
Parallel Forms Reliability
Refers to comparisons with other research constructs drawn from the same content domain.
Organic Brain Syndrome
General term used to describe an array of disorders that impact mental function. Symptoms include: confusion, memory impairment, judgement, and intellectual functions. Several factors can contribute including alcoholism, Parkinson’s, and strokes.
“Twinning” in Self-Psychology
Self-Psychology is the empahsis on helping clients develop a greater sense of self-cohesion. Twinning refers to the way in which children need an alter ego and is one of the “self needs” identified by Self Psychology.
Type II Statistical Research Error
The failure to reject a null hypothesis that is false. It is the failure to detect an effect that is actually present.
Type I Statistical Research Error
Occurs when one detects an effect that was not actually present.
What legal event would require a social worker to produce client records?
A Court Order.
What is the purpose of a reassessment?
To determine if services have been effective or if something needs to change.
What is “Clarification” in therapy?
Seeks to reformulate a problem in a client’s words.
What is Interpretation in therapy?
Attempts to draw together behavioral patterns for deeper understanding.
Suprasystem
An entity that is served by a number of smaller, component systems and produces output based on that relationship.
Open System
Refers to one in which there are exchanges within and without the system.
Subsystem
Smaller component of a larger system
Equifinality
Refers to the phenomenon of arriving at the same end through different beginnings.
Formative Evaluation
Seeks to steer the process of service delivery with an assessment before services are complete
Summative Evaluation
Seeks to improve service delivery after services have ended by preparing to do better the next time.
Task-Centered
Uses specific techniques, such as contracts and homework assignments, to help clients make the changes they want to by following discrete steps that are laid out along the way.
Problem-Solving Approach
Focuses on identifying the problem, thinking of solutions, picking a solution, and having the client try the solution.
Solution-Focused Approach
Starts with the solution to a client’s problem and establishes a plan that will lead the client to the solution.
Narrative Approach
Has the client to rewrite their life.
According to which theorist is learning viewed as a change in behavior related to stimuli in the external environment?
B. F. Skinner
Skinner belonged to the school of Behaviorism, which teaches that learning is a product of an organism’s reaction to external stimuli in the environment.
