Social Work Terms

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

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Ego Strengths

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The premise and understanding between therapist and client that the information revealed by the client will not be divulged to others without expressed permission

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Priviledge

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reflective listening

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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

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Courts often honor this unless there is a public danger or threat to the public good

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Privilege

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

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Consultation

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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

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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.

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Countertransference

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A medication-induced movement disorder that includes uncontrollable physical movements, especially in the face, lips, and tongue, sometimes repetitive movements of the head, hands, and feet

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Tardive Dyskinesia

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

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Gender Roles

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

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Extinction

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

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Empathy

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

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Prejudice

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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

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

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Negative reinforcement

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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)

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transference

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

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Reinforcement

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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

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A penalty imposed for misbehavior ;in behavior modification, the presentation of an unpleasant or undesired event following a behavior

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Punishment

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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

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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

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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

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

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Empowerment

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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

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

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enmeshment

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

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Ego Dystonic