Assessment
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Risk
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Risk
In a biopsychosocial assessment, this domain explores family structure, employment, cultural identity, and spiritual beliefs.
What is the Social (-Spiritual) component?
This mood disorder requires at least two weeks of sadness or anhedonia for diagnosis.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
In SMART goals the “T” stands for this.
What is Time-Bound?
A measurement tool yields consistent results over time. This is a sign of what key property?
What is reliability?
A family with diffuse boundaries and unclear hierarchy would be steered to this model.
What is Structural Family Therapy?
When a client shows sudden behavior change, stroke or infection must be ruled out first—an example of this “rule-out” priority.
What is ruling out a medical/physical cause?
A child with inconsistent caregiving, social withdrawal, and limited emotional responsiveness may meet criteria for this disorder.
What is Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)?
In any crisis scenario, the very first element a social worker must assess.
What is client safety / risk of SI or HI?
A logic model’s "Impact" refers to these types of results, typically measured over years.
What are long-term outcomes?
Bowenian theory’s term for pulling in a third party to ease dyadic tension
What is triangulation?
This type of assessment focuses on immediate safety concerns like suicidal or homicidal ideation, abuse, or neglect.
What is a risk assessment?
According to “Medical Mimics,” this endocrine disorder can masquerade as anxiety.
What is hyperthyroidism?
This evidence-based therapy is considered the gold standard for treating PTSD.
What is Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)?
Reliability concerns consistency; this related concept concerns accuracy.
What is Validity?
For active suicidal ideation with psychosis, this is the appropriate level of care.
What is inpatient hospitalization
The structured tool recommended for rating suicide severity in the slides.
What is the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)?
The bereavement exclusion notes that typical grief reactions should not exceed this many months before Major Depression is considered.
What is two months?
When developing a treatment plan, this step must occur after completing the assessment but before implementing interventions.
What is goal setting (or identifying goals and objectives)?
In program evaluation, this type of evaluation is conducted during implementation to monitor progress and guide improvements.
What is formative evaluation?
The group-therapy type that emphasizes emotional expression and “here-and-now” dynamics.
What is a process-oriented group?
In mandated reporting, this threshold is usually sufficient to file a report when abuse is suspected.
What is reasonable suspicion?
This trauma-related disorder is diagnosed when symptoms last between 3 days and 1 month following a traumatic event.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
This type of intervention is used when a client’s basic needs (like food, housing, or safety) must be addressed before therapeutic work.
What is case management or concrete services intervention?
Calculating cost per successful outcome places a program in this evaluation category.
What is a Cost-Effectiveness (or Cost-Benefit) evaluation?
The primary-prevention example cited in the slides involves this kind of prenatal program.
What are prenatal nutrition programs for low-income families?