NASW Code of Ethics
Number of principles in the NASW Code of Ethics
6
Mood Stabilizers are used most often to treat this disorder
What is Bipolar Disorder?
When this illness is treated with medication, the results are -Decrease in hallucinations and delusions -Improved organization of thinking and speech -Decreased paranoia and increased social contact
What is Schizophrenia?
This therapeutic approach, developed by Freud, emphasizes the influence of unconscious processes and past experiences on current behavior.
What is psychodynamic theory?
What is a formal written order and it can come from a lawyer/attorney or from the courts/judge.
What is a subpoena?
When was the NASW founded?
Founded in 1955
An SSRI is an example of this type class of medication
What is Antidepressant
(SSRI stands for Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor)
This is another term for Bipolar Disorder?
What is Manic Depressive Disorder?
The empty chair technique comes from what theory.
What is Gestalt theory?
This principal requires mental health therapists to protect the privacy of their client's information and not disclose it without the client's consent, expect under special legal and ethical circumstances.
What is confidentiality?
What are the four social work goals according to the NASW?
1. Enhancing client's capacities to resolve problems, cope and function effectively
2. Linking clients with needed resources
3. Improving the social service delivery network
4. Promoting social justice through development of social policy
Antipsychotic medications are often used to treat this type of psychotic disorder
What is Schizophrenia?
What are two of the main associated features of schizotypal disorder?
Anxiety and depression
This therapeutic approach focuses on changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to improve emotional regulation and develop personal coping strategies.
What is CBT?
This process ensures that clients are fully informed about the nature of therapy, potential risks and benefits, and their rights, before agreeing to participate in therapy.
What is informed consent?
Name the value to this ethical principal: Social workers' primary goal is to help people in need and address social problems
Service
Provide an example of an SSRI
What is Prozac, Celexa, Zoloft, Paxil, and Lexapro
What are other characteristics of borderline?
they are impuslive, have chronic feelings of emptiness, and form unstable and intense interpersonal relationships
This theory, associated with Carl Rodgers and Abraham Maslow, say that people have an inherent drive towards self-actualization and emphasizes the importance of a supportive therapeutic environment.
What is humanistic theory?
This legal and ethical obligation requires mental health therapists to breach confidentiality if a client poses an imminent threat to others, as established by the Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California case.
What is duty to warn?
Maintaining professional boundaries is the responsibility of?
the social worker
Besides mood stabilizers, name the other 2 classes of medication that treat Bipolar Disorder
What is Antipsychotic and anticonvulsants
Name 3 of the 9 classes of Psych Medications
What is Antipsychotic, mood stabilizers, antidepressants, anti-panic agents, anti-obsessive agents, anti-anxiety agents, stimulants, medications for substance abuse
This theory, developed by Bowlby and Ainsworth, focuses on the importance of early relationships between children and their caregivers in shaping future emotional and social development.
What is attachment theory?
What is one type of abuse that is NOT reportable for child abuse, but is reportable for elders?
What is financial abuse?