Psychotherapy, Clinical Intervention, And Case Management Flashcards
Active Listening techniques
Furthering responses, rephrasing, paraphrasing, clarification, encouragement, summarization, partialization, reflection of feeling, and non verbal communication.
Types of questions to avoid in active listening
close-ended questions, leading questions (contains the answer), stacked/complex questions (multiple parts).
Generalist Framework
The most flexible practice. Allows the social worker to be open and use a variety of models, theories, and methods of treatment.
Specialization perspective
The opposite of Generalist Framework - characterized by practice that is a particular specialization.
Systems Framework
Focus on the interplay between biological social systems, and how they relate to human behavior. Explore the client’s interaction with the social environment
Ecosystems Framework
Views the individual in the context of their environment. Client’s behaviors are viewed as adaptations to the environment
Ethnic-Sensitive Framework
The social worker is attentive and sensitive to a client’s culture, ethnicity and religion. Need to view the issue in the perspective of differences in cultural values to fully understand.
Feminist Framework
Acknowledges the feminine dimension of the client and the issue. Validates the impact gender has on client’s perception of the issue.
Strengths Framework
Explore and focus on the client’s strengths. Does not focus on problems, but rather in achieving the client’s goals.
Transference vs countertransference
Transference is the client’s unconscious feelings towards the therapist. Countertransference if the therapists unconscious feelings towards the clients
Interests of a Psychoanalytic Psychologist
conscious and un conscious motivations
Interests of a Behavioral Psychologist
behaviors that manifest during particular situations
Interests of a Structural Psychologist
the structure of congenial relationships
Interests of a Bowenian Social Worker
the micro and macro systems in an individual’s life
Focus of a Cognitive psychologist
the individual’s thoughts and cognitions that result in behaviors. Will challenge misconceptions and false beliefs.
Paradoxical Direction
the client is directed to continue engaging in particular behaviors that they are trying to eliminate (to make client aware of behaviors and give a sense of control over behaviors).
Focus of a Gestalt Psychologist
Promote awareness of behaviors, expand on other behaviors, and take responsibility for behaviors. Being aware will help you move towards your goal.
Task Centered Therapy approach
Focus on changing the behavior that the client identifies as problematic. behaviors are viewed as conscious actions and not the result of environmental learning. Need a client who desires to change behaviors.
Crisis Theory/Crisis Intervention
When an individual experiences a crisis, they tend to respond in unpredictable ways. The previous coping skills do not work and need to develop new ones.
Stages of Grief
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. Do not occur in this order. “rollercoaster”
3 types of outcome evaluations
- Experimental Evaluation - test for causality
- Performance Audits - has program met standards
- Decision-Oriented Approach - which components works and which do not
Process-Orientated evaluation
Evaluates a program from a specific point in time under specific conditions, used to see if programs are functioning as planned and to identify program’s strengths and weaknesses.
Free Association
Psychoanalytic treatment technique where a client says whatever come to mind in order to understand their unconscious thoughts and desires.
Tertiary Prevention Strategies
attempt to mitigate the harm of long term problems or conditions
