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Midterm Flashcards

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Theory

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A coherent set of ideas, concepts, or principles that fit together and serve to explain the meaning, nature, and challenges of a phenomena.
It is a lens through which we view something.

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What are the four functions of theory?

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Describe, Explain, Predict, and Change

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Ecosystems theory

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Describes exchanges and transactions between persona and their environment. Environments affect people and people affect environments.

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What does ecosystems theory focus on? (2)

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Transactions: Humans and their environments continuously evolve in response to one another.
Strengths: It is likely that client systems are already doing a lot right. Social workers should build on the strengths and competencies clients already have.

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Productive transactions

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Serve as a source of energy to sustain a system’s functioning and fuel change.

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Deficient transactions

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Inhibit growth and possibly threaten basic sustenance

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How does the ecosystems theory relate to evolution?

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Ecosystems perspective views human development as evolutionary. Individuals and other human systems change and grow in response to internal and external forces. Changes within the system are not the only determinant of behavior. Internal experiences affect and respond to contextual events.

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Ecosystems Theory and Adaptive Fit

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All individuals and social systems evolve to fit the resources and demands of their world. How we interact at any specific point in time arises from a synthesis of what is happening in the world within us, around us, and how we interpret those events. Maladaptive and dysfunctional terms do not apply.

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Ecomap

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Mapping ecosystemic aspects of a client’s situation.

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Strengths Perspective

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Clients have existing reservoirs of resources and competencies, a capacity for growth and change, and know their situation best. Changes pathology into strength.

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What is the main critique of the strengths based perspective?

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It downplays the structural context of inequality and disadvantage, including health disparities, life chances, and access to power and resources.

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What are the key concepts of the systems theory in relation to the family? (9)

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  • A group of interacting and independent people or parts.
  • Physical maintenance and care of group members
  • Addition of new members through procreation or adoption
  • Socialization of children
  • Social control of members
  • Production
  • Consumption
  • Distribution of goods and services
  • Affective nurturance (love)
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Systems theory and components

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A family is like a system as they are made out of components, such as members

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Systems theory and relationships

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The ties between family members, affected by multi-level systems, environment, and family

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Systems theory and needs

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Family needs:

  • A sense of worth
  • Physical security or productivity
  • Intimacy and relatedness
  • Unified structure
  • Challenge and stimulation
  • Joy and affirmation
  • Spiritual grounding
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Homeostasis

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The tendency of any system to try to maintain itself in a state of equilibrium or balance. Can be positive or negative.

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Subsystems

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Systems within systems. Can be benign or problematic. They have boundaries that exclude others from information or activities. These are relative to other systems.

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Feedback loops (for family)

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The interactions among family members. Action-reaction. There is a linear causality, as one thing causes another. Circular causality can be more complex. Feedback loops create homeostasis.

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Boundaries

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Invisible lines that separate communications and physical space. Culturally constructed- not real and can be changed. Open system has semi-permeable and flexible boundaries. Closed system has rigid and tight boundaries.

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Enmeshment (boundaries)

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No boundaries

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Detachment (boundaries)

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Rigid boundaries

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Semi-permeable (boundaries)

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Healthy boundaries

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Rules (family)

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Patterns in a family are shaped by family rules. Patterned communication and patterned behavior (loops), often considered “normal” by the family. Part of what defines family culture.

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Roles (family)

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Members occasionally take on roles, and this effects how others view them, and how they view themselves. Ex. Mediator, Clown, Pleaser, Rebel, the Lost Child, and Hero

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The Five Freedoms (family)

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  1. To see and hear what is here and now, rather than what was, will be, or should be.
  2. To think what one thinks, rather than what one should think.
  3. To feel what one should feel, rather than what one should feel.
  4. To want and choose what one wants, rather than what they should want.
  5. To imagine one’s own self-actualization rather than playing a rigid role or always playing safe.
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Culture

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A set of values, beliefs, and expectations that develop in the context of family. Defines all humans.

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Examples of multiple cultural memberships

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Race, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic, geography, politics, and occupation

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Family social workers

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Identify the needs of the family and the individuals within the family. They offer interventions to support and move towards family and individual priorities. Ongoing assessment of family dynamics with a view to possible referral to family therapy is a reasonable intervention goal.

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Ecomap/Culturagram

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Prompts consideration of resource and system links that may suggest focused interventions such as a program or group support, information, and resource referral

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Genogram

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Opportunity to identify available support and reinforce positive connection and/or create awareness or affirmation of current struggle.

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Reflection

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A generic term for the intellectual and affective activities in which individuals engage to explore their experience in order to lead to a new understanding and appreciation. Looking in, looking back, looking out, looking forward.

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Critical reflection

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Not interchangeable with reflection. Only happens when we intentionally and deliberately interrogate power in relationships.

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Flower of power

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A tool prompting self-awareness of unearned privilege, power, and lack of power on an individual basis.

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The Social Work Process

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Engagement 
Assessment 
Planning
Intervention 
Evaluation 
Closure
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Dialogue

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Forming partnerships, articulating situations, and defining directions.

  • Build partnership based on acceptance, respect, and trust.
  • Define respective roles.
  • Discuss clients’ experience with challenging situations
  • Define the purpose of working together
  • Activate client’s motivation for change
  • Address priority needs
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Discovery

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Identifying strengths, assessing resource capabilities, framing solutions

  • Explore client’s strength as resources for change
  • Examine resource possibilities
  • Collect relevant information from collateral sources
  • Assess capabilities of resource systems
  • Specify outcome goals and concrete objectives
  • Construct an action plan
  • Negotiate a contract for change
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Development

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Activating resources, creating alliances, expanding opportunities, recognizing success, integrating gains

  • Operationalize action plan
  • Access resources and create alliances
  • Enhance opportunities by creating additional resources
  • Evaluate ongoing progress and outcomes
  • Identify and generalize achievements
  • Wrap up the professional relationship
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Confidentiality (4)

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  • Duty to protect (suicide)
  • Court mandated
  • Duty to warn (homicide, bodily harm, significant psychological harm)
  • Duty to report (child protection) or vulnerable individuals
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Social Constructionism (3)

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How people understand themselves, and how people interpret what happens. Interfere with internalized of socially generated “truths”
Meaning is constructed.
Advocates for social and political change.

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Feminist Perspective

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  • Gender defines distribution of power, personal is political, social forces perpetuate the subjugation of women.
  • Emphasizes collaborative process (actualize gender equality, build relations among marginalized groups)
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Life Course Theory

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Sociocultural historical influences on human developments. Timing and life events impact life trajectory. Linkages among social and intergenerational relationships influence development. Expands understanding of contextual influences.
-Maximize potential for turning points in lives, resetting trajectory, advocating for equitable access

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Critical Theory

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-How power differentials affect daily life

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Critical Race Theory

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Social, structural, and every day interactions perpetuate racism. Constructions of race influence power, privilege, and oppression.

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What are the three behavioral theories?

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  • Classical conditioning
  • Operant conditioning
  • Social learning theory
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Classical Conditioning (3)

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  • Pavlov: learn through association
  • Powerful influence on reaction to situations, emotions, and addictions
  • Current research demonstrates neural base
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Operant Conditioning (2)

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  • Skinner: Learning through reinforcement

- Current research uncovers power of reinforcement on brain chemistry

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Social Learning Theory (3)

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  • Bandura: Learning through observation
  • Adds cognitive processes to phenomenon of learned behavior
  • Cycle of attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation
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Prefrontal Cortex

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Integrates cognition and social-emotional behaviors

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Hippocampus

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Stores and retrieves memories

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Amygdala

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Triggers arousal, fear, anxiety, and anger

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HPA axis

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Coordinates stress response

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Epigenesis

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Phenotypic expression changes in response to the environment

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Neuroplasticity

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Neural connections refined in response to experience. Impact determined by presence or absence of buffering effects.

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Trauma informed perspective

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Trauma results from being overwhelmed by stress such as adverse childhood experiences and PTSD

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Basic Principles of Trauma Informed Perspective

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  • Provide physically and emotionally safe environment
  • Establish trustworthy professional relationship
  • Promote peer support
  • Cultivate collaboration
  • Respect client’s choices
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What are the categories of human rights? (3)

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  • Civil and political rights
  • Social and economic rights
  • Collective rights
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What are the consequences of violating human rights? (4)

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  • Social exclusion
  • Discrimination
  • Disenfranchisement
  • Oppression
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What are the levels for generalist practice? (3)

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  • Microlevel: Individuals, families, or people in small groups
  • Mezzolevel: Task groups, teams, agencies, organizations
  • Macrolevel: Communities, neighborhoods, society

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