Study Guide: Exam Flashcards
- Is the format for a social history the same for ALL
Agencies?
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Lecture 6: Social History
Ch 16
- What is a social history?
- Description and history of presenting problem
- Background information of client
- Case worker’s impressions and recommendations
- Baseline for decisions about services and for measuring client’s progress
- Length, format, and detail vary amongst agencies
- What is generally included in each of the subheadings of a social history?
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- What are 2 valid concerns case managers have regarding typing the client’s answers won a computer while taking a social history?
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Lecture 7 DSM & MSE
Ch 17 & Ch 18
- What are 2 valid concerns case managers have regarding typing the client’s answers on a computer while taking a social history?
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- What general guidelines are given regarding the client’s charts?
- Important to maintain your charts in the order specified by your agency
- Return each chart/file to the records section of your agency, and securely locked up
- All computer versions of the clients files are protected by a password
- Never remove a chart/file from the agency
- Review all the material in chapter 17 from beginning of the chapter up to the heading “Background Information.”
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- Why do case managers need to learn about the DSM-5?
- Provides a universal language for assessing and talking about mental disorders.
- The language of choice for most insurance providers.
- Comes from the medical model.
- Diagnoses made by physicians, psychiatrists, LMFTs, LCSWs, not bachelor level case managers.
- Familiarity with the language will facilitate communicate with professionals and clients.
- What does the case manager mean when he describes his client as being oriented x3?
The client is oriented as to:
- who he/she is
- what he/she is
- when it is.
- Behavior and Psychomotor Activity: mannerisms
These are unconscious repetitive action
5.Speech and Language:
pressured, monotonous, emotional, impoverished,neologisms, preservationists
Speech and Language: pressured
Often rapid but constantly talking; cannot be interrupted (often a sign of manic episode). Person appears to have racing thoughts.
Speech and Language: monotonous
No variation in tone.
Speech and Language: emotional
Very emotional
Speech and Language: impoverished
May say very little either because of depression or because he is being interviewed in language other than his native one; may also indicate a lack of facility with language.
Speech and Language: neologisms
makes up entirely new words with idiosyncratic meanings
Speech and Language: preservationists
Defined as the persistence “in repeating a verbal or motor response to a prior stimulus even when confronted with a new stimulus.
the client may give the same answers to different questions
- Mood:
euthymic, expansive, euphoric, anxious
Mood: euthymic
Normal mood
Mood: expansive
Feels very good and is getting better
Mood: euphoric
Out-of-sight happy
Mood: anxious
Worried and distressed
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broad, blunted, flat, labile, anhedonic
Affect: blunted
notes: restricted range of emotional expression
book: even more restricted
Affect: flat
no change of mood, unemotional
Affect: labile
rapid change in mood (crying, then laughing)
Affect: anhedonic
Incapable of any pleasurable response, depressed
Affect: broad
normal range of moods