Therapies Flashcards
What is a perspective on social work intervention that focuses on conscious thought processes as the primary determinants of most emotions and behaviors?
Cognitive therapy is a perspective on social work intervention that focuses on conscious thought processes as the primary determinants of most emotions and behaviors
The remaining answer options are incorrect. Cognitive therapy states that conscious, not unconscious, thinking is the basis for most human behavior and emotional experience. Cognitive therapy can involve improving both coping skills and problem-solving skills. Cognitive therapy is appealing to social workers because it is useful when working with many different kinds of clients.
B.F. Skinner Behavioral Psychologist: 2 types of behavior
Respondent refers to one of the two classes of behavior addressed by behavioral theories of psychology. It is characterized by response to stimuli that are involuntary on the part of the observer of that stimuli.
Operant refers to voluntary behavior. Aversion and flooding are not reactions, but ways to address behavior; aversion being anything that reduces the desirability of a behavior, and flooding being a therapeutic exposure to feared stimuli.
B. F. Skinner is the originator of the idea of operant conditioning, which states that voluntary behavior can be shaped by interactions with the environment and various schema of reward and punishment.
Operant refers to a class of behavior that is voluntary and controlled by interaction with the environment, including positive and negative consequences. Like respondent, it is a term coined and used by the behaviorist school.
Respondent behavior is the opposite of operant; involuntary behavior in simple response to a stimulus. Reflexive would be a synonym for respondent in this context, and categorical is not a class of behavior expressly described by behaviorists.
Which technique encourages families to roleplay different behavioral strategies, and what kind of therapy does it belong to?
Within Strategic Family Therapy, the Pretend technique.
There are many types of strategic family therapy, with many techniques involved. The pretend technique encourages families to roleplay different behavioral strategies.
What therapeutic technique seeks to change perception by changing language, in hopes of eliciting new responses?
Relabeling seeks to change perception by changing language, in hopes of eliciting new responses.
By using what technique does the clinician prescribe the clients’ problem?
The paradoxical directive prescribes the problem, in a sense, so that the client can grasp the behavior’s significance and move toward goals with greater self-awareness.
Alcoholics Anonymous and Weight Watchers are both examples of what kind of groups/group work?
Open-ended groups are those that have no clear start and stop dates.
Alcoholics Anonymous and Weight Watchers are both examples of groups that meet each week for as long as people continue to show up to meetings.
Psychoeducational groups’ main purpose is to provide members with educational information about a condition or life event, whereas the main purpose of both Alcoholics Anonymous and Weight Watchers is to provide members with support for each other in the midst of difficult choices. Closed-membership groups have clearly identified members; both Alcoholics Anonymous and Weight Watchers are open to any members who want to come.
Though many people find Alcoholics Anonymous and Weight Watchers meetings to be therapeutic, therapy groups are led by a social worker or other clinician who is trained in specific interventions to help with certain problematic behaviors or feelings.
What is structural family therapy?
Structural family therapy examines roles and family organization.
Structural family therapy (SFT) is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on improving family interactions and structure to treat behavioral problems:
Family as the system
SFT views the family as a system, and focuses on improving communication and adjusting the rules that govern how the family functions.
Therapist joins the family
The therapist joins the family system to understand the rules that govern it, and to disrupt dysfunctional relationships.
Action techniques
SFT uses action techniques, such as enactment, to prompt participants to experience each other in new ways.
Family structure
SFT focuses on achieving a healthy hierarchical family organization, with different subsystems and boundaries.
Life cycle
SFT emphasizes adjusting the rigidity of limits and relationships between subsystems based on the family’s life cycle stage.
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SFT can help many families, including those affected by trauma, divorce, separation, remarriage, or blended families.
Salvador Minuchin developed SFT, and it has become one of the dominant forms of family intervention. Key steps in SFT include: Observing family interactions, Understanding family structure, and Identifying conflicts and patterns.
What is strategic family therapy?
Strategic family therapy seeks to reduce symptoms through altering styles of feedback that it is thought to maintain the problem.
SFT is a type of short-term family therapy often used with children and adolescents who have behavioral issues. A therapist helps the family by designing individualized interventions to resolve specific problems and create behavioral change.
Strategic family therapy is based on the premise that the family plays the most important role in the life and development of children. This type of therapy seeks to identify and change the structural interaction patterns that make up the family environment. By addressing family behaviors and interactions that contribute to problem behavior, this approach helps families function better so that kids can overcome issues they are experiencing.
Brief strategic family therapy is a short-term model that typically takes place over 12 sessions. It is often used to address specific behavioral problems such as delinquency, drug use, and high-risk sexual behavior.
A strategic family therapist will utilize techniques including joining, tracking and diagnosing, and restructuring to understand and change problematic family dynamics and behaviors.
What is Bowenian family therapy?
Bowenian family therapy attempts to improve differentiation and the generational transmission of issues.
Self-psychology teaches that what is the most important force in psychology? What are three necessary emotional supports?
Self-psychology teaches that the self is the most important force in psychology. A lack of self-concept or cohesion develops when childhood experiences do not provide necessary emotional supports. Three of these are mirroring, a behavior that validates the child’s sense of self, idealization, where a child borrows strength from others, and twinship, the idea that a child needs an alter ego to achieve a sense of belonging.
Integrity is not a need identified in self-psychology.
What can not be guaranteed in group work?
group work, confidentiality cannot be guaranteed due to the fact that groups contain several individuals who are not in a role where they are officially bound by laws regarding privacy. However, the group should be encouraged to observe confidentiality.
Groups serve a function of organization for the individuals involved, and therefore any potential problems should be referred to the group for potential solutions first. The group’s purpose is to act as the agent of change on behalf of individuals, who are the focus of the group’s efforts.
