Mock exam Flashcards
When a client’s responses lack logical sequence. They often do not relate to the interviewer’s questions, or one paragraph, sentence, or phrase is not logically connected to those that occur before or after.
Looseness of association
A disorder in which people temporarily lose their sense of personal identity and impulsively wander/travel away from their homes, places of work, etc.
Dissociative fugue
In the psychosocial model, this techniques is central to the casework process?
- just anything we do to facilitate the relationship between the social worker and the client. Examples: eye contact, reflective listening, validating, unconditional positive regard, etc.
Sustaining procedures
Taking the client’s statement and seeing it in a different context
Reframing
What would help reach the greatest amount of at-risk youth?
Creating a prevention program for a specific population
A disciplined and thoughtful dialogue between two or more people; It is used to expose and unravel deeply-held values and beliefs that frame and support what we think and say.
Socratic questioning
A state in which a person’s ideal self and actual experience are consistent or very similar
Congruence
If we are doing therapy that involves the survivor and the perpetrator of abuse, what is the MOST important thing for positive change to occur?
the perpetrator must accept full responsibility
Problem Solving Process
- Engage the client and develop rapport.
- Collect information
- Assess the client’s needs
- Set goals/create a plan for treatment.
- Evaluate the progress
- Terminate
The FIRST task of a multidisciplinary team is to:
Define objective
When a minority client shows hostility/anxious working with a caucasian therapist, what do you do?
Validate client’s concern
A client becomes silent for long periods of time and seems to have nothing to say. What is this behavior?
Resistance
In evaluating the effectiveness of a program, the evaluator needs to assess ?
If the target population is being reached.
This gives a visual representation of the various systems in a client’s life.
Ecomap
What is the most culturally influenced area (assessor’s bias) in Mental State Exam?
Affect
Main stages of group treatment
- Forming (Preaffiliation)
- Storming (Power and Control)
- Norming (Intimacy)
- Performing (Differentiation)
- Adjourning (Separation).
The FIRST step in completing the policy analysis is to?
Examine the issues that led to the policy implementation.
Delirium Tremens (DTs) are a sign of ?
alcohol withdrawal
Akathisia (A feeling of muscle quivering, restlessness, and inability to sit still ) is usually a side effect of ? drugs.
antipsychotic.
DX for Deliberate and purposeful fire setting
Pyromania
The essential feature of Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Angry/irritable mood
Argumentative/defiant behavior
Vindictiveness
Symptoms groups (4) of Conduct Disorder
Aggression to people and animals
Destruction of property
Deceitfulness or Theft
Serious violations of rules
Racial identity development:
what is a term for a period in which the individual moves from feeling shame about their identity to feelings of pride?
Dissonance
In terms of racial identity development, what is the term when the individual prefers the dominant culture and devalues their own background.
Conformity
Racial identity development:
the individual rejects the dominant culture and has a sense of appreciation for their own culture
Resistance
Racial identity development::
the individual moves toward feeling that the dominant culture is not all bad and that there are individual differences.
Introversion
”?” evaluation determines whether program activities have been implemented as intended and resulted in certain outputs
process
”?” supervision decreases job stress that interferes with work performance and provides the supervisee with nurturing conditions that compliment their success and encourage self-efficacy.
Supportive
”?” Therapy is a short term therapy that helps clients identify and replace self-defeating rigid thought patterns, beliefs, and unhealthy behaviors that interfere with their life goals with healthier thoughts and behaviors that help them achieve their goals.
Rational Emotive Behavior
When a clinical supervisor interacts with their supervisee in a way that models for the supervisee how they should interact with their clients, this can be referred to as?
Parallel Process
What is the best way to orient newly hired SW to the workplace?
Helping new staff understand the overall goals and mission of the agency
”?” evaluations (also known as “?’” evaluations) determine the overall effectiveness of a program and occur at the end of a program.
Summative / outcome
Defense mechanism:
An individual with poor family lives may direct their energy into excelling above and beyond what is required at work
Compensation
What is “Neuroleptic” medication for?
Psychosis
The most accurate information regarding eating disorder is given by ?
self-report
When asked for a summary of treatment, what do I need to send?
a selected portion of record
If a client showed up intoxicated to a session, what do i do?
Reschedule the session and assist him in finding a safe way home.
If a supervisor made a sexual advance to supervisee, what should supervisee do first?
Report to HR
Written records of client interactions for educational and learning purposes that do not go into the client’s official record are called ?
Process recordings
When a client with previous failed attempts of therapy comes, what is First thing to do?
Identify barriers to success in previous attempts
When you can’t locate a client when needing to terminate suddenly, what do I do?
Send a letter and give referrals
The factor that carries the MOST weight in the assessment of abuse is?
A previous substantiated abuse
When the client is underage, social worker must first discuss ? before anything else to establish therapeutic relationship.
confidentiality limitation
