Theories
Diversity & Culture
Biopsychosocial
Social Work Practice
Mystery
100
This alternative theory of understanding family development would focus on how the experience of a family member suffering from Bipolar Disorder could affect the life trajectory of that person as well as the trajectories of other individuals in the family and the family unit as a whole.
What is Life Course Theory?
100
This is the development of skills to deal effectively with the needs of culturally diverse clients.This will also help a social worker understand the differences in the symptomatology of mental illnesses across cultures.
What is Cultural Competency?
100
Due to this, friends and neighbors may start to feel awkward and distance themselves from someone with a mental illness.
What is Stigma?
100
This specific type of social worker help students who are struggling with problems that might affect their academic performance or social and psychological well-being.
What is a School Social Worker?
100
Bipolar Disorder typically consists of these types of symptoms combined with depressive symptoms.
What are mania symptoms?
200
This eight stage traditional theory of family development may be useful for analyzing the impact that mental illness has on family development tasks such as allocating resources, providing physical care and maintaining morale and motivation.
What is Family Life Model?
200
Individuals in the Chinese culture will commonly seek out this person/treatment for treatment services for mental illness.
What is/are a Shaman/ Indigenous Healing Rituals?
200
The term for something that is genetically transmitted from parent to offspring. According to McGuffin, 2003, bipolar disorder is approximately 85% this.
What is Hereditary?
200
This social work practice is a therapy which focuses on constructing solutions rather than resolving problems of the client, placing less emphasis on the diagnosis of a bipolar client and assuming that the client wants to change.
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?
200
Unlike an individualistic society which will focus more on the individual for therapy with mental illness, this type of society often requires the whole family to be involved.
What is a collectivistic society?
300
A Life Course Theorist working with a family as they cope with the cycling moods of a Bipolar member would pay attention to how the family adapts to the ill members bipolar symptoms and periods of stability and instability, describing the family’s adaptations as a function of this aspect of non-linear family development.
What is Continuity and Change?
300
Cultural diets rich in this fatty acid reduces the risk of having Bipolar Disorder.
What is Omega-3 Fatty Acids?
300
This is important to keep low, as high levels may trigger relapse. This can cause and be caused by family discord and conflict.
What is Stress?
300
This psychotherapy was developed specifically to help individuals with bipolar disorder. It focuses on daily routines and social support.
What is Interpersonal Social-Rhythm Therapy?
300
This profession provides most of the country’s mental health services.
What are social workers?
400
This traditional perspective on individual behavior may try to explain a Bipolar family member’s manic and depressive mood cycles as an internal psychological struggle between life energies (Eros) and the negative energy of death (Thanatos).
What is Freudian Psychoanalysis?
400
The majority of cultural groups in this hemisphere view BD to be rooted in a biochemical make-up and offer pharmacological treatment.
What is the Western Hemisphere?
400
A gathering of people who share a similar experience and would like help understanding or navigating that experience.
What are Support Groups?
400
This type of therapy is very successful in preventing relapses for those with mental illness. It combines looking at a person’s thoughts and actions.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?
400
A social worker using this alternative theoretical perspective when working with a family that has a mentally ill member would seek a collaborative approach with the client and the family and would avoid focusing on the client’s deficits during assessment, seeking to recognize the family’s resilience instead, emphasizing and focusing on what the mentally ill individual and the family do well.
What is Strengths Based Perspective?
500
The debilitating symptoms of Bipolar Disorder and social stigma of mental illness may isolate a family member from forming intimate relationships with someone outside of the family, thereby making it difficult for them to move past this stage of Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development.
What is Early Adulthood or Intimacy vs. Isolation?
500
This is known as the ability to function in two cultures simultaneously. People possessing this ability can be crucial to helping social workers bridge the gap to understanding cultural differences in mental illness symptomatology and diagnosis.
What is Biculturality?
500
Symptoms of this are: sadness, anxiety, irritability, loss of energy, uncontrollable crying, change in appetite causing weight loss or gain, increased need for sleep, difficulty making decisions, and thoughts of death or suicide.
What are Symptoms of Depression?
500
This aspect of competent social work practice may be used when engaging a family around their experience with a member suffering from Bipolar Disorder. It involves paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally in a way which nurtures greater awareness, clarity, and acceptance of present reality.
What is Mindfulness?
500
If a client with mental illness discloses that they have a plan of when, where, and how they may hurt themselves or someone else, a social worker needs to break this to abide by the Code of Ethics.
What is Confidentiality?
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