Ethical and Professional Practice
What is the ABC model, cognitive restructuring, Socratic questions, thought record, or the cognitive triangle?
The acronym S.M.A.R.T. stands for goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and ________.
What is time-bound?
This approach is client-centered, focuses on ambivalence, and fosters motivation for change.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
A social worker helps a client identify and reframe irrational thoughts. This technique is part of ________.
What is Cognitive Restructuring?
This is the phase of social work practice where progress is reviewed and the professional relationship is brought to a close.
What is Termination?
This is a skill that social workers use to avoid the temptation to argue, warn, caution, direct, lecture, or confront the client about important behavior change. Instead, they recognize and appreciate the client's reasons for avoiding the change process.
What is rolling with resistance?
According to the Self-Determination Theory, these three elements must be promoted for a goal to be internalized and effective.
What are autonomy, competence, and relatedness?
This approach helps clients focus on times when their problem didn’t occur.
What is Solution-Focused Practice?
This Motivational Interviewing acronym (OARS) stands for Open-ended questions, Affirmations, Reflections, and _______.
What is Summarizing?
True or False: Summarizing the client’s progress is a key activity during the termination phase.
What is true?
When a social worker is in conflict with a colleague, this is the recommended first step.
What is addressing the conflict directly with the colleague?
This is a broad statement of the desired outcome of an intervention.
What is a goal?
This therapeutic model emphasizes meaning-making through life stories.
What is the Narrative Approach?
When planning a session, name two questions that should be asked.
What are the goals and objectives we are trying to accomplish?
What intervention will be used?
What problems or barriers may come up?
What needs to happen today?
Are there any arrangements that need to be made?
Name two strategies that can be used when working with children or adolescents.
What are play-based interventions, asking the child about their interests, playing games, hands on activities like crafts, and using visuals like feelings charts?
And many more!
This phase of treatment uses the treatment plan to guide interventions and monitoring.
What is the Intervention and Monitoring Phase?
True or False: Goals statements can simply restate the client’s problem in positive terms.
What is true?
This approach balances acceptance with change and focuses on mindfulness, emotional regulation, and distress tolerance.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
True or False: Helping clients use a feelings list to describe emotions beyond "good" or "fine" is a form of reframing.
What is false?
Name two strategies that can be used when working with aging adults.
What are life review exercises and connecting to community resources?
This trap occurs when a social worker sets up the expectation that the practitioner is in control and has the answers to the client's dilemma.
What is the Expert Trap?
These are specific, measurable client actions that break down a goal into manageable steps.
What are objectives?
This model assumes that thoughts and beliefs influence a person’s responses to life circumstances.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This intervention involves identifying and addressing discrepancies between a client’s words and actions.
What is confrontation and challenge?
This is the percentage of clients that prematurely end clinical services, according to the APA.
What is at least 20%?