Assessment
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Risk
Diagnosis
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Differential
Treatment Planning
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Interventions
Research
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Evaluation
Therapy Models
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Levels of Care
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In a biopsychosocial assessment, this domain explores family structure, employment, cultural identity, and spiritual beliefs.

What is the Social (-Spiritual) component?

100

This mood disorder requires at least two weeks of sadness or anhedonia for diagnosis.

What is Major Depressive Disorder?

100

In SMART goals the “T” stands for this.

What is Time-Bound?

100

A measurement tool yields consistent results over time. This is a sign of what key property?

What is reliability?

100

A family with diffuse boundaries and unclear hierarchy would be steered to this model.

What is Structural Family Therapy?

200

When a client shows sudden behavior change, stroke or infection must be ruled out first—an example of this “rule-out” priority.

What is ruling out a medical/physical cause?

200

A child with inconsistent caregiving, social withdrawal, and limited emotional responsiveness may meet criteria for this disorder.

What is Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)?

200

In any crisis scenario, the very first element a social worker must assess.

What is client safety / risk of SI or HI?

200

A logic model’s "Impact" refers to these types of results, typically measured over years.

What are long-term outcomes?

200

Bowenian theory’s term for pulling in a third party to ease dyadic tension

What is triangulation?

300

This type of assessment focuses on immediate safety concerns like suicidal or homicidal ideation, abuse, or neglect.

What is a risk assessment?

300

According to “Medical Mimics,” this endocrine disorder can masquerade as anxiety.

What is hyperthyroidism?

300

This evidence-based therapy is considered the gold standard for treating PTSD.

What is Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)?

300

Reliability concerns consistency; this related concept concerns accuracy.

What is Validity?

300

For active suicidal ideation with psychosis, this is the appropriate level of care.

What is inpatient hospitalization

400

The structured tool recommended for rating suicide severity in the slides.

What is the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)?

400

The bereavement exclusion notes that typical grief reactions should not exceed this many months before Major Depression is considered.

What is two months?

400

When developing a treatment plan, this step must occur after completing the assessment but before implementing interventions.

What is goal setting (or identifying goals and objectives)?

400

In program evaluation, this type of evaluation is conducted during implementation to monitor progress and guide improvements.

What is formative evaluation?

400

The group-therapy type that emphasizes emotional expression and “here-and-now” dynamics.

What is a process-oriented group?

500

In mandated reporting, this threshold is usually sufficient to file a report when abuse is suspected.

What is reasonable suspicion?

500

This trauma-related disorder is diagnosed when symptoms last between 3 days and 1 month following a traumatic event.

What is Acute Stress Disorder?

500

This type of intervention is used when a client’s basic needs (like food, housing, or safety) must be addressed before therapeutic work.

What is case management or concrete services intervention?

500

Calculating cost per successful outcome places a program in this evaluation category.

What is a Cost-Effectiveness (or Cost-Benefit) evaluation?

500

The primary-prevention example cited in the slides involves this kind of prenatal program.

What are prenatal nutrition programs for low-income families?