Perspectives
Theories
Models
Therapies
Misc
100
This identifies any attribute, capacity of experience that may lead to a satisfying life and/or effective social functioning
What is The Strengths Perspective.
100
This theory uses the concepts of rewards and punishments.
What is Behaviorism
100
This approach rests on the belief that people are more likely to change as a result of action than from simply discussing thoughts and feelings.
What is Task-Centered Model.
100
This therapy is administered 24 to 72 hours after a traumatic event in order to mitigate the impact of trauma.
What is Critical incident stress debriefing.
100
This model assumes clients do not resist making a change if it seems reasonable and provides relief.
What is Solution-Focused Model.
200
This tells us that a client's ethnicity, culture, religion, and SES will strongly influence a client's thoughts, behavior, and values.
What is Ethnic-Sensitive Perspective
200
According to this theory, the helping process and professional relationship should be nondirective, meaning that the professional accepts the client's choice of issues and does not guide the discussion to a particular topic.
What is Person-Centered Theory.
200
This model suggests that the affected person must abandon denial and acknowledge his or her problem.
What is the Addiction Model.
200
Family therapy may include this approach, which helps the family learn how to express themselves and speak honestly.
What is Communications Approach.
200
Assumes people are attracted to simple rules and principles that offer practical guidance.
What is Self-Help Model.
300
Using this perspectives helps results in increasing client motivation, elevating the client's sense of hope and self-confidence, and reducing resistance to change.
What is the Strengths Perspective.
300
Inner discomfort, regret, and guilt are described as this concept from Cognitive Behavioral Theory.
What is Cognitive Dissonance.
300
This model aims to help clients voice and examine their stories to understand how these constructed stories can generate unhappiness, misunderstandings, and disappointments.
What is Narrative Model.
300
This therapy helps clients process disturbing thoughts, images, and emotions so that symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive memories, and erratic emotions are brought back and addressed.
What is EMDR.
300
Has roots in humanistic and existential philosophy and psychology.
What is Person-Centered.
400
This perspective suggests that social work's purpose is to enhance the adaptive capacity of a person, remove the obstacles in the environment that keep people from functioning well, and expand the resources for those who cannot be competitive due to injustices or limitations.
What is Ecological Systems Perspective.
400
According to this theory, a client will make use of service only if and only so long as she or he believes the benefits outweigh the costs.
What is Exchange Theory.
400
This model uses various questioning techniques to help the client recognize that he or she already has some control over a problem/situation and that he or she may also already possess some good ideas on how to solve it.
What is solution-focused model.
400
This therapy teaches the client to recognize dysfunctional thoughts.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
400
This therapy integrates mindfulness skills.
What is DBT.
500
This emphasizes that the professional helping process cannot be limited to clinical or direct services, it must also include political action and advocacy.
What is Feminist Perspective.
500
According to Cognitive Behavioral Theory, this term describes a person's expectations and habits or patterns of thoughts that are largely formed in childhood.
What is a schema.
500
Using this model requires the social worker to be clear about the goals for the session, identify what the client expects and needs to learn, and how this content can be conveyed to the client so he or she can grasp it most easily and apply it to his or her life.
What is Psychoeducation.
500
This therapy helps clients develop skills that help them tolerate and cope with unwanted experiences and circumstances that cannot be changed.
What is DBT.
500
This concept describes how current patters of thought, feelings, and behavior often reflect, at an unconsious level, one's childhood experiences with parental figures.
What is object relations.
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