Boundaries & Ethics
A client comes to see you and tells you about caring for his mother who has schizophrenia and that she is having problems adjusting to the medicine and therefore is not taking the medication properly. You state, " I have cousin with schizophrenia and you just need to make your mother take the medicine or have the doctor switch her to Invega injections once a month. That worked for my cousin and it will work for your mother.
countertransference
Educating the client about risks, benefits, services, rights and responsibilities, alternative treatments, and costs
Informed consent
This agency assists formerly incarcerated individuals once they are released.
What is Freedom Fighting Missionaries
You are a social worker at the neighborhood recreation center and you are meeting with a group of neighbors to start a neighborhood watch program.
What level is the social worker working in?
Mezzo
This type of family is sometimes called a reconstituted, remarried or stepfamily and is a grouping consisting of a biological parent, his or her offspring and a spouse who may also bring children into the relationship
What is a blended family
Joe, a 56 year old man whose wife died 9 months ago comes to see you and is still grieving the loss of his mother.
The case manager tells him, " You just need to geta grip and move on. You just need to stop moping around all the time. Its not doing you any good."
Judgmental
The legal responsibility to report child abuse, neglect, elder abuse or neglect
Mandated reporting
This agency has personnel that advocates on the best interest of the child when they are in DSS custody in foster care.
Who is Guardian Ad Litem Program
You are attending the NC NASW policy day in Raleigh and meeting with politicians to learn their views and to express your concerns over programs, policies, and funding.
What level are you engaging in ?
Macro
What are the types of placements in child welfare permanency planning
What are
Foster care
Formal kinship Care
Independent Living Programs & Services
Residential services
A woman comes in to the agency to meet with you. She is well dressed and her hair is stylish.
You assume she is a new social worker, not your client so you walk past her to a woman who appears disheveled, clothes are dirty and worn and you introduce yourself thinking that is your client.
False attributions
Legal and ethical obligation if someone states they will hurt themselves or someone else
Duty to warn
This certified specially trained animal provides services to many different people, not just one person
Therapy dog
You are meeting with a group of community stakeholders to investigate the gaps in services for persons experiencing homelessness in your local community.
What system level are you engaging with?
Mezzo
A specialized professional field that centers around older adults
What is Gerontology
You work in the emergency room as a social worker and the doctor asks you to talk with them in the exam room. You enter the exam room and see a man sitting on the exam table in a hospital gown.
You say, "I am sorry I must be in the wrong room"
False assumptions/attributions
Multigenerational family involves how many generations of family occupying the same household
3 or more generations
This type of social worker serves as a linkage between home, school and the community
What is a school social worker
You are organizing a voting registration drive at your agency to get clients registered to vote.
What level are you engaging in?
Mezzo
This federal act provides funding and programs for older adults
What is the Older Americans Act
A relationship with a client other than a professional relationship is called
Dual relationship
What is the personal construct involving what is sacred or transcendent, focusing on meaning, purpose and mortality.
Hint: Chapter 8
Spirituality
Instead of using the term "addict", "junkie", "crackhead" what term should you use
What is a person with a substance abuse disorder
What are normal changes in a person's experiences in life that generally involved change in tole or personal functioning
Developmental transitions
This federal legislation provides programs, policies, and funding for survivors of domestic violence.
What is Violence Against Women Act