Human Development, Diversity, and Behavior in the Environment
Model for understanding how attachment to early caregivers affects our long term functioning
What is Attachment Therory?
An assessment typically conducted by therapists and counselors at the beginning of therapy, which assesses for biological, psychological, and social factors that can be contributing to a problem or problems with a client.
What is a biopsychosocial assessment?
Trust building begins in this stage of treatment.
What is the Early (treatment) Stage?
This is what a therapist exerts if a husband calls and asks for information regarding his wife's treatment.
What is privilege (client privilege)?
Ritalin, concerta, adderall and dexedrine are all medications used for this diagnosis.
What is ADD/ADHD?
Theory that assumes people are basically rational and behavior is largely due to ego functioning
What is Erikson's Developmental Theory?
Used to evaluate the client's current mental functioning.
What is the mental status exam?
A therapist is obligated to ________________ _____________________ if the client is suicidal.
This is the core of social work practice.
What are professional ethics?
Degeneration of neurons in the brain that causes movement abnormalities and body kinesia.
What is Parkinson's Disease?
Practice-guiding principle that highlights the importance of understanding an individual and individual behavior in light of the environmental contexts in which that person lives and acts
What is person-in-environment theory (PIE)?
Patterns of relating to and understanding others that are so maladaptive, inflexible, and deeply ingrained that they produce significant social impairment. Usually recognizable in one's adolescence.
What are Personality Disorders?
A situation in which multiple roles exist between a therapist and a client.
What is a dual relationship?
When a specific situation calls for the social worker to prioritize one ethical principle over another or if one's personal values come into conflict with the best practices.
What is an ethical dilemma?
Prozac, Celexa, Zoloft, Paxil, Lexapro and all SSRI's are used for this diagnosis.
What is depression?
Theory based on the premise that people actively construct higher levels of knowledge
What is Piaget's Developmental Theory?
A mental health disorder that impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others, causing problems functioning in everyday life. It includes self-image issues, difficulty managing emotions and behavior, and a pattern of unstable relationships.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
A method of providing services whereby a professional social worker assesses the needs of the client and the client's family, when appropriate, and arranges, coordinates, monitors, evaluates, and advocates for a package of multiple services to meet the specific client's complex needs.
What is case management?
The concept that individuals are qualified to make their own decisions about their lives.
What is self-determination?
Caused by thiamine deficiency often associated with alcoholism (confusion, loss of muscle coordination, vision changes).
What is Wernicke's Encephalopathy?
Piaget stage describing the first two years of a child's life. It is marked by the child discovering the difference between themselves and their environment.
What is the Sensorimotor Stage?
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
A therapy model that focuses on change through understanding multigenerational dynamics.
What is Bowen Family Therapy?
The process in which a health care provider educates a patient about the risks, benefits, and alternatives of a given procedure or intervention.
What is informed consent?
Retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia and confabulation; hallucinations.
What is Korsakoff's Syndrome?