Practice Test 3 Flashcards
Psychoeducation
Teaching someone about mental health, learning how to slow the progression of a disease/limit, long-term implications
Cage assessment
Substance use assessment to assess the depth of someone’s alcohol use, stands for cut down, annoyed, guilty, eye-opener.
At what point in the problem-solving process should the social worker discuss written policies with the client?
Throughout the entire process
What is the first step in a functional behavioral assessment?
Defined the problem. Should be specific, observable, measurable terms.
Shared power
Views clients as experts on their own lives
Shaping
Refers to reinforcement of behaviors that help obtain new behaviors through succession of steps and rewards
Receiving ongoing support from others will increase the capacity to what?
Heal
Sublimination
To take a socially unacceptable impulse and turn it into a socially acceptable action. Example someone that was constantly fighting becoming a professional boxer.
Structural family therapy
Focuses on the problems here and now and asks for enactments to see how families communicate
Contract
Recovery or treatment plan
Standard of care
Treatment that is accepted by medical experts as a proper treatment for a certain type of disease and that is widely used by health care professionals.
Blending funding
One big pot of money
Braiding funding
Multiple streams of money in which accounting for every dollar spent is required
Negative punishment
Decrease behaviors by taking away something desirable. Example cell phone.
Universalization
Tell his clients they aren’t alone in their feelings and are not uncommon given their circumstances
Xenophobia
Fear of foreigners, strangers, and their
Case mix adjustment
Statistically controlling for group differences when comparing non-equivalent groups on outcomes of interest
Fee splitting
Receive a commission for referrals. This is an unethical practice.
When should you withhold records?
If it will cause serious harm
Values
Principles held by people to help guide behaviors
Ethics
Moral codes of conduct that decide what is right or wrong about behaviors
Equality
The same for everyone
Equity
What is fair
Participant observation
Method in ethnographic research where a social worker watches the people of a certain community or organization
Ethnography
Type of qualitative research that involves immersing yourself in a particular community or organization to observe their behavior and interactions up close
At what age does object permanence begin?
Eight months
Are the members of a group legally mandated to keep information confidential?
No
To be able to barter with a client, the social worker has to what?
Determine that it won’t be detrimental to the client
In an abusive relationship, the blame, lies with who?
The perpetrator
What is an example of cultural sensitivity?
Asking a client what they would like to be called
External validity
The extent to which the results will be the same if the population changes
List the four deficiency needs
Physiological, safety, social and esteem
What is a growth need
Self actualization
What type of drug is clozaril?
An antipsychotic
What kind of drug is lithium?
A mood stabilizer
Lawrence Colberg is known for what?
Moral development
How many stages of moral development are there?
Six stages, three levels
Sigmund Freud is best known for what
Psychosexual stages of development
How many stages of psychosexual development are there
5 stages
Psychoanalytic theory
Client is a product of their past and treatment mostly consists of exploring repressed material
Groupthink
Choosing something to protect the group even though they wouldn’t pick that individually
Malingering
Intentionally making up symptoms for the persons own benefit
Anorexia nervosa
Eating disorder in which a person restricts their food intake and that should be treated in conjunction with a medical professional
What mental disorder has the highest mortality rate?
Anorexia nervosa
Amenorrhea
Not getting a period
Are men with anorexia nervosa, more or less less likely to seek treatment?
Less, which leads to more men dying from anorexia than women
Bipolar one
Full-blown mania for more than seven days. Up periods Lasting weeks or months, then down. Lasting weeks or months, does not need a depressive episode to be present.
Bipolar two
Hypomania because is less than seven days, cycles are faster, less severe, requires a depressive episode be present.
Cross-sectional studies
observational studies that analyze data from a population at a single point in time.
Prazosin treats what
PTSD
Self disclosure should only be used when?
As the last resort
Parallel process
The over identification with the client and their issues, the therapist resonates with and response to from experience of their own life
Bipolar one disorder with melancholic features
Features loss of pleasure and almost all activities that are usually pleasant sometimes with decreased appetite and weight loss
Self-concept
How one sees themselves
Negative symptoms
The term negative symptoms describes a lessening or absence of normal behaviors and functions related to motivation and interest, or verbal/emotional expression.
Positive symptoms
The positive symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, illogical changes in behavior or thoughts, hyperactivity, and thought disorder.
Sigmund Freud, five stages of psychosexual development
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
Ages of the oral stage
Birth to 18 months
Ages of the anal stage
One to three years
Ages of the phallic stage
3 to 5 years
Ages of the latency stage
5 to 13 years
Ages of the genital stage
11 to adult hood
What are the six values of the code of ethics of social work?
Service, social justice, dignity, and worth of the person, human relationships, integrity, and competence
Reaction formation
Defense mechanism where a person reduces anxiety by adopting beliefs that are different from their own
General systems theory
Primary focus is mechanisms of homeostasis
The Gottman method
Couples therapy that focuses on assessing a relationship between couples while attempting to increase affection, remove barriers and create
Psychoanalytic theory
Consist of the conscious mind, unconscious mind and preconscious mind
Conscious mind
All the info we are paying attention to at any given time
Unconscious mind
All the rest of the information we know that we are not currently paying attention to
Preconscious mind
All info that is available if needed
Block Grant
Money from the government that can be spent however
Categorical grant
Money from the government for a specific item
Revenue sharing
Money from the government with no restrictions at all
Soap notes
Subjective, objective, assess, plan
Subjective
Refers to personal views on a subject
Objective
Refers to factual information on a subject
Disparities
Pain during intercourse
Difference between OCD and OCPD
OCD is an anxiety disorder with obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, and OCPD is a personality disorder where people strive for perfection, are never satisfied with their achievements, and desire control
Existential theory
Acceptance of the clients, fundamental autonomy, freedom of choice, and social workers commitment to the concept of self determination
Cognitive theory
Focuses on clients, conscious, thinking, processes, reasons, and motivations for certain behaviors
Psycho analytic theory
Hypothesis and treatment application of human personality and its development
Translational research
Findings from research that are app applied into practical application
Single subject design
Social workers should have control over the clients environment when using this design. Ex example when they are impatient.
Insomnia requires troubles sleeping for how long?
At least three months
What happens during an initial meeting?
Going over expectations and boundaries
Executive Directors
Oversee program activities
What should you ask yourself if you are considering making a report to CPS
Do I have enough info to make a report? If not, you should gather more information.
Three clusters of personality disorders
Cluster a – add and eccentric. Includes paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal. Cluster B – dramatic and erratic. Includes antisocial, narcissistic, borderline, histrionic. Cluster see – anxious and fearful, includes avoidant, independent, obsessive, compulsive personality disorder.
Ephebiphobia
Fear of young people/teenagers
Trypanophobia
Fear of needles
Mysophobia
Germ phobia, fear of germs, and contamination
Geriatric evaluation scale
geriatric assessment is a tool that doctors use to evaluate a person’s health and well-being. It looks at your physical function, nutrition, other medical conditions, mental health, thinking and attention ability, current medications, and how much social support you have at home.
Three levels of moral development
Pre-conventional, conventional, postconventional
Preconventional stage of moral moral develop
It just 3 to 7 where morals are based on rewards and punishment
Conventional stage of moral development
Ages 8 to 13 where morals are based on external ethics
Post conventional stage of moral development
Adulthood, morals are based on personal ethics
Six stages of moral development
Avoiding punishment, self interest, good boy, attitude, law, and order morality, social contract, principle
What happens in the phallic stage?
Stage in which a boy is very interested in his penis and a girl is envious of not having a penis
What happens during the latency stage?
Preoccupied with activities with same-sex friends
What happens in the genital stage?
Interest in sex with the opposite sex, libido appears
What should you do if someone is listing all the signs of depression?
Assess for suicide risk
Symptoms of depression
Lack of motivation, changes and sleeping eating habits
