Social Work in the Medical Setting
This is a series of questions asked at the beginning of treatment and helps to create a treatment plan in the medical setting
What is the biopsychosocial assessment?
Also called MI, this an evidence based model originally developed to treat substance abuse. This intervention focuses on the clients willingness for change
What is motivational interviewing?
The acronym SOAP in a healthcare setting stands for
What is Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan?
Where requests for parking requests are entered
What is LEAF?
Social workers' primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems
Value: What is service?
Consisting of a social worker, physician, nurse, psychiatrist and any additional clinical staff
What is interdisciplinary team?
A patient does not wish for interventions and does not want the nurse to take vitals. The patient has this right
What is the right to refuse care?
A persistent, compulsive dependence on a behavior or substance
What is addiction
Where leave requests are entered
What is VATAS?
Social workers behave in a trustworthy manner
Value: What is intergrity?
This is a federal law that prohibits the sharing of medical or mental health documents or information without the consent of the patient or client
What is HIPAA?
Emergency psychological treatment aimed at assisting individuals in a crisis situation and to minimize the potential for further trauma
What is crisis intervention?
A protocol put in place to protect patients who are in active withdrawal from alcohol
What Is CIWA? or Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment-Alcohol?
A legal document created by a patient or client indicating their end of life wishes if they are no longer able to make their own decisions
What are advanced directives or living wills
Considered by many to be the mother of social work and also a recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
Who is Jane Addams?
A type of care that focuses on end of life care for the chronically ill, terminally ill or seriously ill. This system believes in palliative care only
What is hospice care?
Structured evaluation used to assess a person's mental state and cognitive functioning
What is a mental status exam?
The most recent addition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder published by the American Psychiatric Association
What is DSM V
Comprehensive wed based transitional care program that is used by the VA and post acute care providers
What is Ensocare?
The first settlement house in the United States
Who is Hull House?
A multilevel system approach to health care including hospitals, primary care and clinics. It is a belief in treating the whole person not the individual symptoms. Primarily in the treatment of physical health and mental health
What is integrated health?
A belief in human potential that is tied to the notion that all people have untapped, undetermined abilities. It is the social worker's responsibility to identify and utilized these strengths
What is strengths perspective?
When a person has a break from reality and often involves seeing, hearing and believing things that are not real
What is psychosis
Helps VA's patient care teams at VA Medical Centers to work together to understand and address Veteran feedback and concerns
What is PATS-R?
City where Hull House located
What is Chicago?