Practice test Flashcards
Double bind
Offering two contradictory messages and prohibiting the recipient from noticing the contradiction.
Which is not a goal of treatment when working with clients who have experienced complex, trauma in childhood?
Recognition that recovery is possible and can occur quickly. It does not happen quickly.
After explaining the nature extent, duration and risks of participation, what documentation will be needed in order for the social worker to ethically conduct an evaluation for a youth services program?
Written ascent from the children and consent from their guardians.
What should you do if several weeks after you refer a client to a new social worker you learned that the client has had no contact with the new provider?
Contact the client about the risks involved with not following through with the referral
When social workers contract with supervisors who are not employed in their agencies, what is not necessary to know?
You do not need verification from regulatory bodies that disciplinary action has not been taken against the supervisor or that they are on probation for something
When working with couples who are in mashed, in order to address, the problem, treatment should focus on what?
Differentiating roles and boundaries for the husband and wife in the relationship
When is family therapy? Best introduced in the treatment of clients with substance use disorders?
Once clients are stable in their new patterns of behavior/have made some progress in individual therapy
This is not an appropriate reason for seeking feedback from a client during the beginning phase of treatment.
Focusing the treatment on a clients feelings and thoughts because that happens later on in treatment.
This is not a condition often sided by quartz that must be met in order for information to be considered privileged
Written records are kept documenting confidential material, just because it is written does not make it privileged
Is cultural competence a core condition in client-centered therapy that must exist in order to have a climate conducive to grit and therapeutic change?
No, you need congruence, positive unconditional regard, and empathic understanding
A mandated client questions the confidentiality of specific documentation that is generated as part of treatment. The social worker should:
Review the court order with the client to determine what documents have to be released
What is considered to be best practice and treating pregnant women who are addicted to heroin?
Enrollment in a methadone maintenance program
What does performance monitoring and social work agencies aim to do?
Identify key aspects about how a program is operating, determine whether program objectives are being met, and some suggest innovation based on unachieved results.
After accurately reflecting, the clients feeling, a social worker can demonstrate a higher level of validation by:
Having knowledge of the clients prior experience and suggesting it is affecting the clients feelings now
What are the things of social worker giving a case presentation has to provide?
Background and demographic information on the client, the reason for the presentation, the interventions delivered, and the presenting problem.
Using a public health model, with the resulting actions from screening for substance use disorders?
No intervention, referral to treatment, or short term intervention. Long-term interventions are not a part of the screening process.
The goal of attending behavior by social workers is to:
Encourage clients to speak openly about their concerns
When should a social worker report to authorities suspected abuse of a minor?
If she becomes suspicious while the parent and child are present, she should contact authorities immediately
The social worker receives a referral from a high school guidance counselor for a student who has received a full scholarship to college, but decided not to attend due to family responsibilities at home. In order to effectively work with the students, the social worker must:
Acknowledge the differences and values that makes us between the student and the school personnel
When using a medical medical model, how should gender identity disorder be supported?
Eliminate them as mental health diagnosis. The medical sees them as something that can be surgically and chemically done.
When marital problems are viewed as stemming from different understandings and expectations that spouses have of their marriage, social workers are using:
Symbolic interactionism
A client feels that having dinner with her friends as she did in the past would help decrease her feelings of insignificance. What would be important in establishing the measurable target for the subjective?
Finding out the frequency of contact in her pre-morbid functioning
According to the DSM five which specifier can be used with obsessive compulsive and related disorders?
With poor insight, insight related specifiers
A client who is homosexual tells a social worker that he is very distressed over his sexual attractions towards other men. In assisting the client to formulate treatment goals, the social worker should:
Help the client understand the effects of internalized homophobia on his feelings
Should a social worker work with a student who is getting a social work degree at a local university that she teaches at?
No, because there should not be any dual relationships due to conflict of interest
Three examples of negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Diminished feelings of pleasure and every day life, difficulty beginning and sustaining activities, reduced speaking
When a social worker is meeting with a court ordered client for the first session, the client appears apprehensive about discussing mandated services. This behavior is most likely an indication of the clients:
Resentment toward not being given a choice about therapy as it is forced upon them
Self monitoring is mostly a part of what practice method?
CBT
Jean Piaget is mostly known for what?
Cognitive development
The four stages of cognitive development
Sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operations, formal operations
What ages does the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development take place in?
0 to 2 years
What ages do the pre-operational stage of cognitive development take place in?
2 to 7 years
What ages do the concrete operations stage of cognitive development take place in?
7 to 11 years
What ages do the formal operation stage of cognitive development take place in?
11 through maturity
What are indicators of the sensory motor stage of cognitive development?
Retains image of objects, primitive, logic, manipulating objects, begins intentional actions, imitative play, signal start to have meaning, symbols (language) start to have meaning
What are indications of the preoperational stage of cognitive development?
Progress from concrete to abstract, thinking, can comprehend past present and future, night, terrors, acquires words and symbols, magical, thinking, thinking is not generalized, thinking is concrete, irreversible, egocentric, cannot see another point of view, thinking is centered on one detail or event, imaginary friends
What are the indications of the concrete operation stage of cognitive development?
Beginning of abstract, thought, plays games with rules, causing effect relationships understood, logical, implications, are understood, thinking as independent experience, thinking is reversible, rules of logic are developed
What are indications of the formal operation stage of cognitive development?
Higher level of abstraction, planning for future, things, hypothetically, assume adult rules, and responsibilities
What is Eric Erickson known for?
Social development
What are the eight stages of social development?
Trust versus mistrust, autonomy versus shame and doubt, initiative versus guilt, industry versus inferiority, identity, versus role, confusion, intimacy, versus isolation, generativity versus stagnation, and ego, integrity versus despair
Trust versus mistrust ages
Birth to 1 year
