DSM 5TR
Before diagnosing, please rule out:
Medical + Substances
This is a set of standards that guide the professional conduct of social workers.
What should you keep in mind when conducting a study to prevent biased data?
Sampling, Self-selection bias, Confounding Variables, Minimize recall bias, report all data regardless of findings
This technique refers to a therapist connecting with the family to build trust and understand their dynamics.
What is joining?
How many weeks of required supervision do you need to obtain a LCSW license?
3,000 hours of supervised post-degree professional experience, including 104 supervised weeks, in order to qualify for LCSW licensure.
What are the insight assessment specifiers for OCD and Hoarding disorder?
1. Good or Fair insight
2. With Poor insight
3. Absent insight/Delusional beliefs
What are the core values of the code of ethics?
This type of study repeatedly observes the same participants over an extended period to track changes.
What is a longitudinal study?
This technique refers to family members role-playing relationship patterns.
What is enactment?
This type of therapy involves the social worker and client identifying a problem and creating a solution based on the individual’s strengths.
What is solution-focused therapy?
This disorder is most defined by the recurrent pulling out of one’s own hair.
What is Trichotillomania (Hair-Pulling Disorder)?
Please define the following NASW Value: Competence
Social Workers only practice within their areas of competence and develop and enhance their professional expertise.
This type of study observes a population at a single point in time, like a snapshot.
What is a Cross-Sectional Study?
This is a exercise in which a family can create a visual map of family relationships, patterns and history.
What is a genogram?
This theorist states that people learn through observation, imitation, and modeling others' behaviors, rather than solely through direct experience.
Who is Albert Bandura?
When diagnosing Body Obsessive Disorders, which specifier targets an individual preoccupied with the idea that his or her body build is too small or insufficiently muscular?
What is Muscle Dysmorphia?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This line offers a free resource for members who encounter ethical dilemmas and/or have ethics related questions.
NASW Consultations Line: 1-800-742-4089
What is the difference between a forward versus backwards study?
In forward-directed studies, the direction of enquiry moves from exposure to outcome. In backward-directed studies, the line of enquiry starts with outcome and then determines exposure.
This type of family therapy focuses on exploring intergenerational patterns and the differentiation of self.
What is Bowenian Family Therapy?
This concept, introduced by psychologist Barry Schwartz, suggests that the more options we have, the less satisfied we feel with our decision.
What is the paradox of choice?
This is a sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization (e.g., eye blinking, throat clearing).
What is a tic?
When using electronic technology to facilitate evaluation or research, social workers should ensure that participants provide ________ for the use of such technology.
This type of study resembles clinical trials except that the exposure is naturally determined instead of being decided by the investigator. The researcher begins with a group of individuals who are free of outcome at baseline.
What are Cohort Studies?
This type of therapy focuses on understanding family issues in the context of larger systems (e.g., social, cultural).
This is a psychological condition that occurs when individuals experience prolonged exposure to the trauma and suffering of others. Symptoms include exhaustion, disrupted sleep, anxiety, headaches, stomach upset, irritability, numbness, a decreased sense of purpose, emotional disconnection, self-contempt, and difficulties with personal relationships.
What is Compassion fatigue?