Domestic Violence and Addictions
Stages of Dying
Life Crises & Loss
Culturally Competent Social Work Practice
Attitudes, Knowledge, & Skills of a Social Worker
100
Abuse that occurs in response to a conflict and the motivation is to gain control of the situation or partner.
What is domestic violence?
100
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' stages of dying include all of the following EXCEPT A. Anger B. Peace C. Denial D. Acceptance
What is Peace?
100
Experienced by over 36 million individuals, including 1/5 of all children. Single women with children are more likely to experience this. All those expereincing this are less likely to complete high school and more apt to live in hazardous environments.
What is poverty?
100
The cultural guide for the social worker when practicing with cultural competence.
What is the client?
100
This is essential for all social workers and occurs when one acknowledges their own biases, beliefs, values, limitations, and counter-transference in working with diverse populations.
What is self-awareness?
200
A physical or psychological craving for a drug.
What is addiction?
200
During this stage, the individual is trying to make a deal with fate, God, or others.
What is Stage 3, Bargaining?
200
10th leading cause of death in the United States.
What is suicide?
200
Three broad categories related to culturally competent social work that should be applied when working with any client in any level of practice.
What is the attitude, knowledge, and skills of the social worker?
200
If there is a language barrier in treatment the social worker should utilize this, but continue to talk to the client.
What is an interpreter?
300
3 of 5 client factors to consider when making an accurate assessment and recommending treatment strategies when working with addiction.
What is history, needs, personal resources, motivation level, and support system?
300
This stage includes rage and resentment towards others or God. Extreme frustration and others find it difficult to relate to the person
What is Stage 2: Anger?
300
Careful physical assessment is necessary and very important in working with this population. Over 55% of the group suffer from depression, but are commonly misdiagnosed.
What is the aging/elderly?
300
Current approach to study culture and to observe without making value judgments. Culture is viewed as fluid, evolving, heterogeneous, and conflictual rather than as static, fixed, cohesive and unified.
What is an ethnographic approach?
300
The most important factor in helping a client.
What is the therapeutic relationship?
400
Phase I of the four phase model of the cycle of abuse. During this phase a breakdown in communication occurs, followed by the victim becoming fearful and experiencing the need to calm down the abuser.
What is Tension Building?
400
The first stage of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' - Stages of Dying. During this stage the individual disbelieves that he/she is dying and can be a stage of shock.
What is Denial?
400
A normal response to the loss of a loved one.
What is grieving?
400
Social workers should use these 3 skills when working with a diverse group of clients and practicing cultural competence.
What is empathy, caring, and strengths-based assessment and treatment?
400
In treatment planning, a social worker should utilize the client's what to develop a better understanding and more culturally competent treatment plan?
What are cultural resources (family members, cultural network)?
500
The last 3 phases of the four phase model to describe the cycle of abuse. Phase II- describes abuse that occurs and involves deep anger, threats, intimidation. Phase III-Abuser gives excuses, blames victim/denies abuse, or says it wasn't that bad. Phase IV - Incident is forgiven and in one's mind no abuse is taking place. Often referred to as "the honeymoon phase."
What are Incident, Reconciliation, and Calm Phases?
500
The last two stages of Ross' Stages of Dying: the first marked by deep sadness and/or fear of death, a sense of tremendous loss. The other the individual feels void and the struggle against death ends.
What is depression and acceptance?
500
Name 5 characteristics associated with suicidal behavior.
What is (1) a mental disorder, (2) alcoholism and substance abuse, (3) psychological characteristics including apathy, indifference to treatment, low social involvement, hopelessness, poor pain tolerance, and poor health, (4) inadequate social support, (5) unemployment or retirement, (6) prresence of stressful events (loss), (7) being male, (8) a previous suicide attempt (9) being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, (10) family history of suicide, (11) family violence (12) access to firearms, or (13) incarceration.
500
A white social worker has a large proportion of Hispanic clients. The social worker's race frequently comes up as an issue for these clients. What should the worker do?
Address the issue directly when the client brings it up.
500
A social worker meeting with a client for the first time should ask the client this type of questions in order to encourage the client to talk freely about the issues that have brought the client to treatment.
What are open-ended questions?
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