Theories And Models Flashcards
Theories that explain human behavior by describing how humans interact with each other or react to certain stimuli.
Social work theories are general explanations that are supported by evidenced base
Developmental Theories
Views human behavior through larger contexts, such as members of families, communities, and broader society
1 thing changes within a system, the whole system is affected
Micro Meso Macro levels
Systems Theory
uses up its energy and dies
Closed System
becoming specialized in structure and function
Differentiation
closed, disorganized, stagnant, using up available energy
Entropy
multiple paths, same results
Families are seen as being goal oriented
Equifinality
Steady State
Family strive for a sense of balance
Homeostasis
Obtaining resources from the environment that are necessary to attain the goals of the system
Input
Exchange of energy and resources between systems that promote growth and transformation
Negative Entropy
a system with ross boundary exchange
Open System
A product of the system that exports to the environment
Output
A major component of a system made up of 2 or more interdependent components that interact in order to attain their own purpose and the purposes of the system in which thy are embedded
The concept of hierarchies describes how families organize themselves into various …
Subsystem
An entity that is served by a number of component systems organized in interacting relationships
Suprasystem
Energy that is integrated into the system so it can be used by the system to accomplish its goals
Throughput
This theory searches for the causes of behavior not in the individual alone, but in the interactions among the members of the group. What type of theory approach is this?
Family Systems Theory Approach
This theory argues that in order to understand a family system a social worker must look.
A) each individual and their problems
B) family as a whole
C) parents and children seperatley
B) Family as a whole
ex: ppl do not exist in a vacuum they live, play, go to school, and work with other people.
Diagrams of family relationships beyond a family tree allowing a social worker and client to visualize heredity patterns and major personality traits can be determined by using?
Genograms
Social roles and interpersonal interactions are the focus of treatment. Such key clinical issues include:
establishing a contract with the family
examining alliances within the family
identifying where power resides
determining the relationship of each family member to the problems
IS A TYPE OF THERAPY APPROACH>
family therapy approach
Encourage family members to “pretend” and encourage voluntary control of behavior
IS CALLED A ______ TECHNIQUE WITHIN _______ :
Pretend Technique
Strategic Family Therapy:
Superficial behavioral changes within a system that do not change the structure of the system
IS CALLED A ______ TECHNIQUE WITHIN _______ :
First-Order-Changes
Strategic Family Therapy:
Changes to the systematic interaction pattern so the system is reorganized and functions more effectively
IS CALLED A ______ TECHNIQUE WITHIN _______ :
Second-order Changes
Strategic Family Therapy:
Families tend to preserve familiar organization and communication patterns; resistant to change
IS CALLED A ______ TECHNIQUE WITHIN _______ :
Family Homeostasis
Strategic Family Therapy:
Changing the label attached to a person or problem from negative to positive so the situation can be perceived differently; it is hoped that new responses will evolve
IS CALLED A ______ TECHNIQUE WITHIN _______ :
Relabeling
Strategic Family Therapy:
Prescribe the symptomatic behavior so a client realizes he or she can control it; uses the strength of resistance to change in order to move a client towards goals
IS CALLED A ______ TECHNIQUE WITHIN _______ :
Paradoxical Directive or Instruction
Strategic Family Therapy:
The invisible set of functional demands organizing interaction among family members. This approach stresses the importance of family organization for the functioning of the group and the well-being of its members.
Structural Family Therapy
Dysfunctional families tend to be characterized by either a pattern of rigid enmeshment or disengagement is what type of boundary?
A) Boundaries with outside world
B) Hierarchical Organization
C) Interpersonal Boundaries
C) Interpersonal Boundaries
because individual family members and promote their differentiation and autonomous, yet interdependent functioning
This Boundary defines the family unit, but boundaries must be permeable enough to maintain a well-functioning open system
A )Interpersonal Boundaries
B )Boundaries
C) Hierarchical Organization
B) Boundaries
allows contact and reciprocal exchanges with the social world
This boundary is maintained by generational boundaries
A) Hierarchical Organization
B) Interpersonal Boundaries
C) Boundaries
A) Hierarchical Organization
because the rules differentiating parent and child roles, rights, and obligations
The Bowenian Family Therapy approach focuses on intergenerational approach, with 8 major theoretical constructs. What are the 8?
Differentiation Emotional Fusion Multigenerational Transmission Emotional Triangle Nuclear Family Societal Regression
This allows a client to think through a situation without being drawn to act by either internal or external emotional pressures is
A) Multigeneration transmission B) Nuclear Family C) Emotional Fusion D) Differentiation E) Societal Regression F) Emotional Triangle
D) Differentiation
the more differentiated, the more a client can be an individual while in emotional contact with the family
If a member makes a move toward autonomy, it is experienced as abandonment by other members of the family is
A) Differentiation B) Societal Regression C) Emotional Fusion D) Multigeneration transmission E) Nuclear Family F) Emotional Triangle
F) Emotional Fusion
is the counterpart of differentiation and refers to the tendency for family members to share an emotional response. This is the result of poor interpersonal boundaries between family members.
In a fused family, there is little room for emotional autonomy.
This context can focus a social worker on the differentiation in the system and on the transmission process
A) Multigeneration transmission B) Emotional Fusion C) Societal Regression D) Differentiation E) Nuclear Family F) Emotional Triangle
A) Multigeneration Transmission
the connection of current generations to past generations as a natural process. Multigenerational transmission gives the present a context in history
It is almost impossible for two people to interact without a triangulation
A) Societal Regression B) Emotional Fusion C) Emotional Triangle D) Differentiation E) Nuclear Family F) Multigeneration transmission
C) Emotional Triangel
the network of relationships among three people A relationship can remain stable until anxiety is introduced. When anxiety is introduced into the dyad. a third party is recruited into a triangle to reduce the overall anxiety
Bowen viewed society as a family and emotional system complete with its own multigenerational transmission, chronic anxiety, emotional train gels, cutoffs, projection, processes and fusion differentiation struggles
A) Societal Regression B) Emotional Fusion C) Emotional Triangle D) Differentiation E) Nuclear Family F) Multigeneration transmission
A) Societal Regression
is manifested by problems such as the depletion of natural resources. Bowne’s theory can be used to explain societal anxieties and social problems
Sibling position is a factor in determining personality. Where a client is in birth order has an influence on how he or she relates to parents and siblings. Is a
A) Societal Regression B) Emotional Fusion C) Differentiation D) Nuclear Family E)Emotional Triangle F) Multigeneration transmission
D) Nuclear Family
Most basic unit in society and there is a concern over the degree to which emotional fusion can occur in a family system. Clients forming relationships outside of the nuclear family tend to pick mates with the same level of differentiation
A social worker helps members come to agreement regarding the purpose, function, and structure of a group. Self actualization occurs through
Release of Feelings that block social performance etc..
This type of theory is called?
group theory
