Basics
Social Workers complete assessments, treatment contracts, and use theories to guide what with clients?
Interventions
Which theory/therapy aims to change negative thought processes?
Cogntive Therapy
Sarah is struggling with socially in school and you have identified several other students experiencing similar difficulties. You form a group for these students focused on teaching positive interpersonal skills in which the technique of observing and modeling are used to increase these skills.
Social Learning
This theorists was a major pioneer in developing one of the first theories to understand human behavior/ development/ personality
Freud
With this therapy clients from different backgrounds seem to have positive outcomes when workers assist them in obtaining and implementing techniques such as hope, rites of initiation, and cleansing experiences
Multicultural Therapy
Sarah, her mother, and grandmother stated that they would like to communicate better on a daily basis after you asked them the "miracle question". Since the family is the expert in the case they are able to identify several goals to help increase positive communication styles daily. Which therapy are you using?
Solution-Focused
Before assessment, treatment contract, and interventions take place, what needs to occur between a social worker and their client
Rapport
Clients seem to have positive outcomes when social workers demonstrate empathy, unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence and genuineness
Person-Centered Therapy
Sarah, her mother, and grandmother wish to become a stronger family but have been through much trauma and are struggling. For your first session, you decide to "join" the family and observe their interactions with one another in order to understand the families current issues and dynamics. Which therapy are you using?
Structural Family Therapy
Social workers always practicing the concept of (Blank) when we are non-judgmental and try to understand what a client may be feeling or experiencing
Empathy
A concept of Ego Psychology says that social workers may experience inappropriate or unrealistic feelings towards clients
Counter-Transferance
Sarah has ongoing depressive thoughts regarding her missing father. It begins with her mother speaking negatively about her father, resulting in Sarah thinking "he never wanted me," and feeling sad and behavior of smoking to take her mind off of the thoughts. Which theory/ therapy would be the best intervention?
Cognitive
This theory can either be short-term or long-term and focuses on a client's development of personality. It can focus on the present or past development, the unconscious memories or experiences that result in negative behaviors, feelings, or defense mechanism/coping. A client can reflect, gain insight, and change/adapt to their crisis, maladaptive patterns, or trauma.
Ego-Psychology Therapies
In Behavior Therapies, this intervention focuses on pairing a negative stimuli with a positive stimuli consistently in order to reduce the intensity of the negative stimuli over time
Systemic Desensitization
You have one on one sessions with Sarah's mother outside of family therapy. After several sessions you have allowed Sarah's mother to discuss her childhood, teen years, and adulthood that have resulted in gaining insight to maladaptive behaviors when seeking male companionship since her own father left her and her mother as a child? What technique are you using?
Ego-Psychology