Ethics & Values
The primary Social Work Value, involves helping people in need and addressing social problems
What is Service?
This personality structure is driven by instinctual desires, without the consideration of the constraints of the external world. This structure operates according to the "pleasure principle".
What is the Id?
This is the problem that initially brought the client in for services - even if other problems are later identified and addressed.
What is the presenting problem?
The ability to resist one's desires, impulses, and temptations and to regulate one's behavior is called this ego function.
What is Impulse Control?
A physical object, like a stuffed bunny or blanket, that a child carries to represent the security they felt in infancy is called this.
What is a Transitional Object?
This value requires that Social Workers conduct themselves in an honest, trustworthy, and selfless manor
What is Integrity?
This is a phenomenon where someone acts according to unconscious feelings or desires from important people from one's past (like a parent) onto someone in the present (like a therapist or boss).
What is Transference?
This form of oppression is embedded in institutional, legal, political, religious & cultural structures; it includes racism, sexism, classism, ableism, ageism, homophobia & transphobia, xenophobia.
What is Structural (or Systemic) Oppression?
This Ego Function involves the ability to objectively and validly assess situations and events, one’s own abilities & limitations. This includes distinguishing fact from fantasy, and danger from safety
What is Reality Testing?
Creating a place where a client feels safe, secure, heard, and seen is an attempt to create this object relations concept.
What is a Holding Environment?
This principle requires social workers to practice in their areas of expertise and continue advancing their skills throughout their professional careers
What is competence?
Freud believed that unresolved internal or interpersonal conflicts from early childhood led people to be "stuck" at the stage when the conflicts occurred. He named this phenomenon ____.
What is Fixation?
Clients often present with multiple concerns and feel overwhelmed about what to do about their problems. Clinical social workers can use this strategy to help the client identify the concern that makes sense to work on first.
What is Prioritizing?
What is Sublimation?
The gradual and circular process of development, based on secure and loving parenting or caregiving, that allows a child to explore and grow into an autonomous adult at their own pace
What is Separation/Individuation?
Setting clear expectations about when you are available to clients, limiting personal disclosure, and avoiding inappropriate relationships with clients are examples of this ethical principle
What is setting and respecting Professional Boundaries?
From birth to about 15 months, infants in this psychosexual stage of development need to be loved, gratified, nurtured, and safe.
What is the Oral stage?
A career-long personal and professional commitment to self-reflection, openness to, accountability and respect for cultural differences among people.
What is Cultural Humility?
An example of this defense mechanism: Mary hates her boss but really needs this job. Unconsciously, she acts incredibly caring and helpful to her boss and defends her whenever anyone says bad things about her.
What is Reaction Formation?
This attachment style is characterized by an inability to feel safe and accepted and to connect fully in relationships, often including a great deal of anxiety about being abandoned by people
What is Insecure Attachment?
According to this ethical principle, Social Workers support and encourage client opportunities to identify and address their own needs.
What is self-determination?
Erikson believed this psychosocial challenge of adolescence (ages 11-18 years) is driven by the need to explore one's sense of self and personal identity, and is characterized trying on different identities.
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
If transference means the experiences, feelings and desires that clients bring from their pasts into the therapeutic relationship, this is what the clinician brings, including their reaction to the client.
What is counter-transference?
This defense mechanism involves negating aspects of one's experience to avoid the unacceptable feelings, like anxiety, or thoughts.
What is denial?
Someone with this Attachment Style often has positive relationships with themself and with others, can tolerate intimacy and separation from loved ones
What is Secure Attachment?