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conducted to determine what the client's needs are and to identify whether their need will promote their welfare
What is Assessment?
True or False: As social worker, you need to ensure the best information is gained so you can use your expertise to define a problem and find the best solution or intervention.
True
This is the stage in the process when the social worker and the client have their first interaction. It can last anywhere from a couple of minutes to an hour or more, depending on the circumstances and avenue of practice
Engagement or Intake
This is stage of the process when the social worker and the client review the information shared by the client to develop strategies for intervening. Social workers utilize their abilities to reiterate what was said in order to clarify with the client.
Assessment or Data Collection
At what stage of the process does this occur: The social worker is generally responsible for monitoring progress and attaining information so services can be rendered to the client. The client then acts on those services and implements the objectives and actions in order for the goals to be achieved.
Intervention and Monitoring
Eric is a 32-year old entrepreneur. He has been married for 10 years and have three children, one has autism. He says the amount of money he is making is considerably low for his family's needs. He verbalizes feelings of sadness and sense of unworthiness. He is 5 feet tall, weighing 265 pounds. What is the client's presenting problem?
Presenting problem: sadness and sense of unworthiness
In this stage, the social worker receives feedback from the client about the process, a goal attainment scale. The hope is that the goals are met and the client begins to feel better and takes steps to independently continue to work on the issues.
Termination and Evaluation
What are types of information gathering/method used by social workers to write an assessment
Interviews, Observation, Written materials (records), Labs
What are OBJECTIVE facts?
What is actually said by the client, example "I feel like I am losing everything."
What are SUBJECTIVE facts?
Includes social worker's insights, beliefs, hunches, guesses, observation, speculations about the clients situation (presenting problem) based on the material presented.
What is entails the 'biological' in the biopsychosocial framework?
It entails questions about medical or genetic issues, age, developmental milestones or physical characteristics
What entails the 'psychological' aspect of the biopsychosocial framework?
entails questions about a person's mental status, thoughts, behaviors, feelings, emotions, history of trauma or abuse
What is Egocentrism?
a child is unable to see things from anybody else's point of view. The child is only aware of himself or herself; the needs and perspective of others don't exist
What is Centration?
Refers to a child's tendency to concentrate on only one detail of an object or situation and ignore all other aspects
What is Classification?
Refers to a child's ability to sort items into various categories according to certain characteristics.
Name three out of five goals that you should do when conducting a biopsychosocial assessment
•Gather relevant information
•Analyzing the information and reaching professional judgments about what that information means in respect to the individual and families
•Making decisions and planning interventions
•Intervening, service delivery and further assessment
•Evaluating and reviewing progress
Abstract logical reasoning that, according to the Piagetian theory of cognitive development, emerges in early adolescence and marks the formal operational stage. It is distinguished by the capacity for abstract thinking and hypothesis testing, which frees the adolescent from total reliance on concrete thinking and immediate perception.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning
What is Conservation?
Tests a child’s ability to see that some properties are invariant after an object undergoes physical transformation. It refers to a logical thinking ability that allows a person to determine that a certain quantity will remain the same despite adjustment of the container, shape, or apparent size,
The theory is based on the idea that humans process the information they receive, rather than merely responding to stimuli. This perspective equates the mind to a computer, which is responsible for analyzing information from the environment.
Information-processing theory
What is the complete name of the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development on children?
Jean Piaget