Social Work Terms

Question 1

_______________ The individual’s capacity for logical thinking, intelligence, perceptiveness, and self-control over impulses to achieve immediate gratification.

Answer 1

Ego Strengths

Question 2

_______________ A legal rule that protects communications between the therapist and client from being shared in a court proceeding without expressed permission; Courts often honor this unless there is a risk of public danger or threat to the public good, in which case the social worker may be court ordered to share information.

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Privilege

Question 3

_______________ A technique in which the social worker clarifies and shows the client what their feelings are in the moment and encourages further expression and understanding of those feelings (often through paraphrasing).

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Reflective Listening

Question 4

______________ A problem-solving process in which advice and other helping activity is offered to an individual, group, organization, or community that is faced with a problem.

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Consultation

Question 5

______________ 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.

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Ego Syntonic

Question 6

______________ A set of conscious or unconscious emotional reactions to a client experienced by the therapist; These feelings usually originate in the therapist’s own developmental conflicts or past

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Countertransference

Question 7

______________ 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.

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Tardive dyskinesia

Question 8

______________ The behaviors and personality characteristics that are attached to people because of their sex, often inaccurately

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Gender Roles

Question 9

In behavior modification, the strengthening of a response through removal adverse stimuli.

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Negative Reinforcement

Question 10

______________ The act of perceiving, understanding, experiencing, and responding to the emotional state and ideas of another person.

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Empathy

Question 11

______________ An opinion about an individual, group, or phenomenon that is developed without proof or systematic evidence (usually negative)

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Prejudice

Question 12

______________ Championing the rights of individuals or communities through direct intervention or through empowerment. This is a basic obligation of the social work profession.

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Advocacy

Question 13

_______________ In behavior modification, the elimination or weakening of a condition response by discontinuing the reinforcement after the response occurs.

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Extinction

Question 14

_______________ 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
their therapist).

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Transference

Question 15

_______________ Strengthening a desired behavior or response by presenting a desired stimulus contingent on performance of the response.

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Reinforcement

Question 16

_______________ 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.

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Informed Consent

Question 17

_______________ A penalty imposed for misbehavior. In behavior modification, the presentation of an unpleasant or undesired event following a behavior.

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Punishment

Question 18

_______________ A defense mechanism in which unacceptable aspects of one’s own personality are rejected or attributed to another person or entity.

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Projection

Question 19

_______________ In behavior modification, a procedure that strengthens the tendency of response to recur.

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Positive Reinforcement

Question 20

_______________ A phenomenon in groups in which members settle on a particular person to target or blame, though that person is often innocent; prevents true group cohesion and distracts from the actual group purpose.

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Scapegoating

Question 21

_______________ An administrative and educational process used to help someone further develop and refine their skills, enhance staff morale, and provide quality assurance for clients

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Supervision

Question 22

. _______________ The process of helping individuals, families, groups, and communities increase their strengths and develop influence toward improving their circumstance

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Empowerment

Question 23

_______________ Traits of personality, behavior, thought, or orientation considered to be unacceptable, repugnant, or inconsistent with the individual’s perceptions—conscious or unconscious—of themself.

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Ego Dystonic

Question 24

_______________ The process in which one individual who feels pressured, distressed, or powerless in relating to another individual brings into the relationship a third person to act as an ally or a distractor.

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Triangulation

Question 25

_______________ A relationship pattern in which role boundaries between individuals are so vague or diffuse that there is little opportunity for independent functioning.

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Enmeshment