Theory Time
This theoretical framework views human behavior as the result of interactions between people and several nested environmental levels, from micro to macro.
What is Ecological Systems Theory?
This is condensing a large amount of information shared by a client during a session into a brief, organized review.
What is summarizing?
Bevo is this type of animal.
What is a longhorn?
The fundamental ethical principle that obligates social workers to protect client information from unauthorized disclosure.
What is Confidentiality.
Following recent legislative updates to Texas Family Code 261.10(b), a licensed social worker must file a report for suspected child abuse or neglect within this strict timeframe.
What is 24 hours?
This popular clinical theory posits that thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors, not external things like people, situations, or events.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Theory? (CBT)
What are open-ended questions?
The University of Texas at Austin was founded in this year.
What is 1883?
This term describes a situation where a social worker relates to a client in more than one relationship, whether professional, social, or business.
What is a Dual Relationship?
Under Texas mental health confidentiality law, if a professional determines there is a probability of imminent physical harm by a client to self or others, confidential information may be disclosed to these categories of personnel.
Who are medical, mental health, or law enforcement professionals?
What is Social Learning Theory?
This is the conscious, intentional sharing of personal information by the social worker, which must only be used if it directly benefits the client.
What is self-disclosure?
This UT office supports students with short-term counseling, groups, psychiatry, wellness services, and a 24/7 crisis line.
What is the Counseling and Mental Health Center? (CMHC)
This psychological phenomenon occurs when a social worker displaces their own unconscious feelings, conflicts, or past relationship dynamics onto a client.
What is Countertransference.
The landmark 1976 California case often discussed in relation to a mental health professional's duty to protect identifiable third parties from serious threats of harm.
What is Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California
This theory focuses on helping marginalized groups gain power over their lives by critically examining systemic oppressions and taking collective action.
What is Empowerment Theory?
Gathering, analyzing, and presenting data to prove that a community lacks a specific resource or service.
What is a Community Needs Assessment?
This UT tradition welcomes new students on the eve of their first day of class.
What is Gone to Texas?
When working with a minor client who cannot legally give informed consent, the social worker must obtain parental consent alongside this minor-specific agreement.
What is Assent?
This is the specific regulatory board nested under the Behavioral Health Executive Council (BHEC) that directly establishes the ethical standards and rules of practice for Texas social workers.
What is the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners (TSBSWE).
Originally developed by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, this framework examines how various forms of systemic discrimination (like racism, sexism, and classism) intersect and compound one another.
What is Intersectionality Theory?
The skill of organizing and convincing diverse stakeholders or agencies to work together toward a shared community goal.
What is coalition building?
Born in late 2023, this is Bevo's "sweetly" named little sister.
Who is Sugar?
A social worker may limit a client's right to self-determination only when the client's actions or potential actions pose this level of risk.
What is an imminent and serious risk to themselves or others?
This standard of proof is all that is required to trigger a mandated report, a social worker does not need definitive evidence or absolute certainty to call the authorities.
What is reasonable suspicion / reason to believe?