[OB] Chapter 8: Social Work Helping Models and Approaches

Question 1

Models of SW

Schneiderman states that this model involves the direct administration of existing programs of material aid.

Answer 1

Direct Provision Model

Question 2

Models of SW

[TRUE or FALSE]
Direct Provision Model is parallel to the provision of “dole outs”

Answer 2

FALSE

Question 3

Models of SW

This model of intervention involves the process of negotiating the “service jungle” for clients, whether singly or in groups.

Answer 3

Intercession-Mediation Model

Question 4

Models of SW

This model of intervention is premised on the belief that problems are not always due to personal inadequacies but, often, to deficiencies in the social reality, and that if people are to be helped, the target of attack should be the latter.

Answer 4

Mobilizing the resources of client systems to change their social reality

Question 5

The seemingly unending crisis situations that confront people in our country require our social work practiotioners to use an approach that is appropriate and therefore truly helpful.

Answer 5

Crisis Intervention Approach

Question 6

It is defined as an “upset in a steady state”

Answer 6

Crisis

Question 7

It is a process for actively influencing the psycho-social functioning of individuals and groups, during a period of acute disequilibrium.

Answer 7

Crisis Intervention

Question 8

Is a process for actively influencing the psychosocial functioning of individuals and groups, during a period of acute disequilibrium.

Answer 8

Crisis Intervention

Question 9

3 phases of crisis intervention model

Answer 9

Assessment, Implementation, Termination

Question 10

This is a specific, stress-producing occurrence, either an external blow or internal change, that occurs to an individual or family in a state of relative stability in its biopsychosocial situation, initiating a chain of reverberating actions and reactions

Answer 10

Hazardous Event

Question 11

These are two kinds, the normal developmental critical periods when a person is particularly vulnerable (e.g adolescence or middle adulthood), and transitional stages when the person has to take on new roles, learn new tasks, and adjust to new circumstances

Answer 11

Anticipated and predictable

Question 12

These are unpredictable events that can occur at anyone at any stage in life, with little to no advanced warning

Answer 12

Unanticipated and accidental events

Question 13

This refers to the subjective reaction of the individual or family to the initial blow, both at the time it occurs and subsequently.

Answer 13

The vulnerable or upset state

Question 14

This is the link in the chain of stress-provoking happenings that bring tension to a peak and convert the vulnerable state into one of crisis

Answer 14

The precipitating factor or event

Question 15

This is the adjustment, either adaptive and integrative or maladaptive and destructive, that takes place as disequilibrium gradually subsides.

Answer 15

The state of reintegration and reorganization

Question 16

This is for specific situational and maturational crises that do not require assessment of the psychodynamics of the individuals in crisis

Answer 16

Generic Approach

Question 17

Designed for use by mental health professionals, this approach emphasizes assessment of the interpersonal and intrapsychic process of each person in crisis, with particular attention given to the unique aspects of the particular situation and solutions specifically tailored to help the client return to a new steady state.

Answer 17

Individual Approach

Question 18

Which are concerned with the provision of concrete assistance and services

Answer 18

Material-arrangement tasks

Question 19

Which are concerned with dealing with client’s feelings, doubts, ambivalence, anxieties, and despair, which arise while trying to carry out what both worker and client agree need to be done

Answer 19

Psychosocial Tasks

Question 20

This model takes into consideration the place which utilizes casework as a mode of helping people with problems. This means the particular organization, agency or social institution, the purposes of which define its functions, services, and its areas of social concern

Answer 20

Place

Question 21

Is a “technology for alleviating specific target problems perceived by clients, that is, particular problems clients recognize, understand, acknowledge, and want to attend to”.

Answer 21

Task Centered Model

Question 22

Client referred by an agency source or Client applies independently and voluntarily

Answer 22

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