Social Work Terms Flashcards
The Individual’s capacity for logical thinking intelligence, perceptiveness, and self-control over impulses to achieve immediate gratification.
Ego Strengths
The Premise and understanding between therapist and client that the information revealed by the client will not be divulged to others without expressed permission; Courts often honor this unless there is a risk of public danger or threat or threat to the public good.
Privilege
A technique in which the social worker clarifies and shows the client what his or her feelings are in the moment and encourages further expression and understanding of those feelings (often through paraphrasing.)
Reflective Listening
A problem-solving process in which advice and other helping activity are offered to an individual, group, organization, or community that is faced with a problem.
Consultation
Traits of personality thought, behavior, and values that are incorporated by the individual, who considers them acceptable and consistent with his or her overall “true” self.
Ego Syntonic
A set of conscious or unconscious emotional reactions to a client experienced by a therapist; These feelings usually originate in the therapist’s own developmental conflicts or past.
Counter transferansferance
A medication-induced movement disorder that includes uncontrollable physical movements, especially in the face, lips, and tongue, and sometimes repetitive movements of the head, hands, and feet.
Tardive Dyskinesia
The behaviors and personality characteristics that are attached to people because of their sex, often inaccurately.
Gender Roles
In behavior modification, the strengthening of a response through the removal of adverse stimuli.
Negative Reinforcement
The act of perceiving, understanding, experiencing, and responding to the emotional state and ideas of another person.
Empathy
An opinion about an individual, group, or phenomenon that is developed without proof or systematic evidence (usually negative)
Prejudice
Championing the rights of individuals or communities through direct intervention or through empowerment; is a basic obligation of the social work profession.
Advocacy
In behavior modification, the elimination or weakening of a conditioned response by discontinuing the reinforcement after the response occurs.
Extinction
A concept that refers to emotional reactions that are assigned to current relationships but originated in earlier experiences (often the feelings a client has toward a therapist)
Transference
In behavior modification, a procedure that strengthens the tendency of a response to recurring.
Reinforcement
The granting of permission by the client to the therapist or agency to use specific interventions, including diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and research; This must be based on full disclosure of the facts needed to make the decision, including risks, benefits, and alternatives.
Informed Consent
A penalty is imposed for misbehavior; in behavior modification, the presentation of an unpleasant or undesired event following a behavior.
Punishment
A defense mechanism in which unacceptable aspects of one’s own personality are rejected or attributed to another person or entity.
Projection
Strengthening a desired behavior or response by presenting the desired stimulus contingent on the performance of the response.
Positive Reinforcement
A phenomenon in groups in which members settle on a particular person to target or blame, or blame, though that person is often innocent; prevents true group cohesion and distracts from the actual group purpose.
An administrative and educational process used to help someone further develop and refine their skills, ehance staff morale, and provide quality assurance for clients
