Frameworks & History
We teach social worker students research methods so they can engage in what type of practice?
Evidence-based practice
Assessment in social work is:
An ongoing process
True/false: most people who experience a traumatic event will need some form of mental health intervention or support
False (most people are resilient)
Is teaching social skills a direct or indirect way of addressing the environment?
Indirect
What is the term used to describe bipolar disorder with four or more mood cycles per year?
Rapid-cycling
Who first popularized the idea of a “talking cure,” i.e., what become modern counseling?
Sigmund Freud
What component of the assessment refers to the social worker’s explanation of why the client is experiencing a certain problem?
Case formulation
What term refers to potential positive changes to a person’s functioning following a traumatic event?
Post-traumatic growth
What is the basic metaphor for the therapist that is used in supportive counseling?
Good parent
This is the term for delusions in which the individual feels he or she is being targeted or attacked by some outside force
Persecutory (will also accept paranoid)
Prior to psychoanalysis, the first form of talk therapy, what was the primary modality of mental health treatment?
Hospitalization/asylums
What is the term used to refer to the focus of an assessment and to which the other parts of the assessment should ultimately relate back to?
Presenting problem (or chief complaint)
What is the term for a spiritual tradition that is typically connected to community practices, rituals, and sacred texts?
Religion
Holding environment refers to what?
An interpersonal relationship in which clients can safely explore their feelings knowing that those emotions can be contained
What is the only DSM-5 category of disorders with a known cause?
Trauma- and stressor-related disorders
Who wrote the first direct practice textbook for social work?
Bonus: What was the name of the text book?
Mary Richmond
Bonus: Social Diagnosis
What stance refers to the clinician being open to acknowledging their lack of understanding of a client’s cultural background and thoroughly assessing for important cultural information through ongoing assessment?
Cultural humility
A client who was abused as a child and is exhibiting intense anger and aggressive impulses may be occupying what position on the trauma triangle?
Abuser/perpetrator
Which intervention can be helpful in supportive counseling to build rapport and model positive change, but can seriously alter the therapeutic alliance?
Self-disclosure
Which criteria applies to virtually all DSM-5 diagnoses?
Functional impairment (i.e., impairment or disability related to social, occupational, or other important activities)
Because social workers due to not use literal tools like scapels or hammers, what is the primary ‘tool’ we use to create change in our clients in relational practice?
Ourselves/use of self
Which stance refers to the clinician becoming familiar with the language, history, specific mental health implications, and other important aspects of the social groups they work with?
Cultural competence
What is the term used to describe when people with unresolved histories of trauma attempt to fix other people’s problems in an effort to work through their own emotional issues?
Rescuer reenactment
This psychodynamic term refers to people being driven to recreate past experiences, often repeatedly, in an effort to make certain situations or types of relationships successful
Repetition compulsion
In reference to psychiatric diagnosing, what terms refers to mistaking an abstract notion or label as an entity with an independence existence?
Reification fallacy