ASSESSING & CONTRACTING
ASSESSMENT: INTRAPERSONAL, INTERPESONAL, AND ENVIORNMENTAL FACTORS
ASSESSING FAMILY FUNCTIONING IN DIVERSE FAMILY & CULTURAL CONTEXTS
FORMING & ASSESSING SOCIAL WORK GROUPS
DEVELOPING GOALS AND FORMULATING A CONTRACT
100

_____ involves communicating your empathic understanding of clients' views about goals that they would like to pursue. 

REFLECTING GOALS

100

A ______ may help the social worker better understand the client's belief system and resources


Clue: Assessment

DAILY DOUBLE

SPRITIUAL ASSESSMENT

100

______ is a specialized interviewing strategy that is often employed to elicit information about the repetitive transactions that take place among family members. 

DAILY DOUBLE

CIRCULAR QUESTIONING

100

In____, the focus may be on the group as a whole as the unit of the group as a mechanism for influencing the individual members. 

Clue: Groups

TASK GROUPS

100

A ______ is the agreement that becomes the focus of the work to be completed by the social workers and client. 

DAILY DOUBLE


GOAL STATEMENT

200

The notion of ____ ____ ____ recognizes that people frequently lapse in their attempts at change, return to and redo previous stages, and recycle the process- often times- before change becomes habituated. 

DAILY DOUBLE

SPIRAL OF CHANGE

200

______ refers to the stability and the adequacy of one's physical surroundings and whether the environment fosters or jeopardizes the client's health and safety. 

Clue: Environment

PHYSICAL ENVIORNMENT

200

_____ is a systems concept that describes the tendency of a system to maintain or preserve equilibrium or balance. 

HOMEOSTASIS

200

In_____ members have central shared concerns, such as coping with addiction, illness, or obesity. 


Clue: Groups

DAILY DOUBLE

SELF-HELP GROUPS

200

_____ provide space for entering the particular concerns or problems of a client situation and for listing the expected intervention outcomes. 

Clue: Contracts

DAILY DOUBLE

WRITTEN CONTRACTS

300

______ applies to the process of establishing goals, developing action plans, and establish action steps that correspond to the client's level of motivation and readiness. 

STAGE MATCHING

300

A _____ is a statement that summarizes and synthesizes the most important aspects of the case to create a story of the client and his or her past and presenting problems. 

DAILY DOUBLE

FORMATION

300

______ of any given family refers to the extent to which the family can achieve its functioning goals, given the demands of family and social life. 

DAILY DOUBLE

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY

300

In _____, the focus is on helping individuals to make changes to enhance their socioemotional well-being through the development of social skills, education, and therapy. 

Clue: Groups

DAILY DOUBLE

TREATMENT GROUPS

300

______ embodies the use of procedures that measure the frequency and/or severity of target problems. 

Clue: Evaluation

DAILY DOUBLE

QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION

400

_______ is a tool or instrument that social workers can utilize to estimate client's ability to shop, prepare food, cook, keep house, arrange for transportation, manage medications, use the telephone, bathe, dress, and feed themselves. 

DAILY DOUBLE

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING (ADL)

400

______ fill a variety of needs to improve the client's quality of life. 

Clue: Systems


SOCIAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS

400

______ are standardized structured actuarial tools that specify indicators in which a certain score predicts the probability of a behavior or condition. 

RISK ASSESSMENTS

400

_______ help members change their behavior, cope with or ameliorate their personal problems, or rehabilitate themselves after a social or health trauma (e.g., a drug addiction group, a PTSD group, an anger management group, a dialectical behavior therapy group for persons diagnosed with personality disorders). 

DAILY DOUBLE

Clue: Groups

THERAPY GROUPS

400

A ____ is a qualitative method that seeks to determine whether intended or unintended gains can be attributed to a particular event or action. 

INFORMATIVE EVENT also referred as a CRITICAL INCIDENCE

500

Social workers utilize the skill of _______ when expressing their theoretical or research-based opinions about "why" or "how" issues occur and persist and "what" to do to resolve them. 

SHARING HYPOTHESES

500

______ is a specialized, person-centered method for addressing ambivalence and enhancing motivation to move toward healthy change. A conversation style for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change. 

MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING (MI)

500

______ is the approach that recognizes that assessment and intervention goals involve families, as well as the systems external to the family that affect and serve as resources to families. It was derived from structural behavioral family therapy and is also applicable to social work practice with families. 

CLUE: Developed by Boyd-Franklin and Bry (2000)

THE MULTISYSTEMS APPROACH

500

A_____ graphically depicts patterned affiliations and relationships between group members by utilizing symbols for people and interactions. 

SOCIOGRAM

500

SMART Goals are____, ______, _____, ______, _____ and provide focus and direction to the work completed by the social worker and client. 

DAILY DOUBLE

SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE, ACTION-ORIENTED, REALISTIC, TIMELY.