Assessments
Intervention Strategies
Ego Functions
Defense Mechanisms
Drives
100
Strengths and limitations of each of the client's ego functions
What does the Social Worker evaluate through questioning during assessment?
100
This is significant to intervention outcomes across theoretical perspectives
What is the social worker client relationship
100
The Ego
What is the concept describing the part of personality that negotiates between our internal needs and the outside world.
100
The main function of Ego defenses
What is to reduce anxiety
100
Two original drives that Ego Psychology recognizes
What is Pleasure and Aggression
200
Explain the assumption of Developmental Theory in relation to Ego psychology
What is a theory that assumes that all of us move through certain physical and emotional stages as we grow?
200
The study that Vividly articulated the ways in which unconscious processes can distort the social workers understanding of a clients problems and their relationship and vice versa
What is Perlman (1979)
200
Conscious thought processes
What are the thought processes that receive greater influence in ego Psychology?
200
Flexible versus Rigidity
Suppression of anger may be appropriate or inappropriate depending on the situation
200
The ability to influence one's enviornment
What is Mastery
300
Erikson's (1968) psychosocial stages of development
What is a theory that Ego Psychology is closely related to?
300
A client's unconscious projection of feelings, thoughts, and wishes onto the practitioner who comes to represent a significant person from the client's past.
What is Transference
300
Awareness of external environment
What is an accurate perception of the external world
300
Defenses should promote adaptive behavior in the present and future.
What is future verses past orientation
300
Subjective feelings about one's ability to master enviornment
What is Competence
400
identity versus identity diffusion and intimacy versus isolation
What are the two developmental stages that older adolescents struggle with?
400
Techniques that help the client top understand his/her motivations and behaviors more clearly and then become mobilized to resolve present difficulties.
What is Ego sustaining techniques
400
Impulse control
What is our ability to distinguish between primary drives or impulses and secondary (planned) mental processes, to control actions in accordance with social norms, and to maintain control of behavior and emotions to a degree that prevents significant problems in functioning.
400
Reality Adherence vs. significant distortion
What is losing the ability to distinguish your enviornment
500
Social workers should be careful not to rigidly apply these across all populations
What are theories of development
500
This is used when client's experience maladaptive patterns of functioning that require an exploration of past experiences and unconscience processes.
What is Ego modification technique called developmental reflection
500
Autonomous functions
What is the capacity to maintain attention, concentration, memory and learning.
500
A very common defense mechanism.
What is denial
500
These drives are considered conflict free
What is mastery and competence
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