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Final LSW Prep II
Final LSW Prep II
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Social Work
Post-Graduate
09/26/2013

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2nd generation anti depressants include
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Asendin, Desyrel, Ludimoil, Wellbutrin, effexor, prozac. SSRI:s zoloft, paxil
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General anxiety disorder is treated by this med
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benzos: valiu, ativan, librium, tranxene
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Side effects of benzos
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impaired movement and short term memory
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Family Systems theory includes these terms
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complementarity, psuedomutuality
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Complementarity
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when both people meet all the needs of eachother in a relationship
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Psuedomutality
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when family hides conflict, seems perfect
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In structural family therapy, a therapist will make sure clients
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re-enact the problem during interview
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The role of therapist in structural family therapy is to
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join the family
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In structural family therapy a therapist is interested in identifying
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boundaries and rules, rigid, enmeshed, hierarchy organization
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Communication theory is about
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how info is transmitted, how they receive the info, how they judge it, and how they respond to that info (cell phone, someone picks up the phone, thinks what the other person is saying is stupid, and decides to hang up!)
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Terms in communication theory
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feedback, info processing, relationships, symmetrical relationships, paradox, metacommunication, context, rules for info procesing, info processing block, metacomplementary relationship, symmetrical escalation
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How info hits one's brain and what they return
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feedback
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Response to information
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information processing
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Defined by implicit or explicit message
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Relationships
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In this relationship, both have equal power
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symmetrical
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In this rel. there is unequal power
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complemntarity
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When someone prescribes the symptom and symptoms no longer serve purpose and can disappear
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paradox
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Nonverbal communication
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metacommunication
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circumstances surrounding human exchange
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context
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rules by which potentially available info is perceived and evaluated
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Rules for info processing
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failure to perceive and evaluate potentially useful information
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information processing block
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one person lets the other have control or forces them to take it
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meta-complementary relationship
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Power struggling, trying to be one up at the same time
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Symmetrical escalation
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Emoeiotnally distressing dilemma in communication in which person or group receives two conflicting messages in which one negates the other
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Double bind
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The goal of behavior modification is
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treating behaviors as changing behaviors will change feelings.
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Behavior modification does not focus on the
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personality of the client.
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Two classes of behavior in behavior mod
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respondent and operant
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Involuntary behavior: anxiety, sexual response, automatically elicited by a certain behavior
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Respondent
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voluntary behavior like walking or talking controlled by consequences
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Operant
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Best used for problems in sexual dysfunction, phobias, and compulsive behaviors (overeating, smoking) and training of MR and autistic children
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Behavior mod
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Classical conditioning
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One can create a conditioned response in someone else. For example: pavlov's dogs
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Operant conditioning (Skinner)
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Giving child something they like after a chore reinforces the behavior. Consequences that decrease the behavior are punishing consequences.
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Operant conditioning techniques
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Positive reinforcement, Negative reinforcement, reinforcement, punishment, positive punishment, negative punishment, chain, fading, extinction, prescription, systematic desensitazation, in-vivo desensitization, aversion therapy, shaping,
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Increases the probability that behavior iwll continue through giving money, reward, etc
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Positive reinforcement
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ALWAYS increases behavior
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Reinforcement
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A behavior increases because something unlikable is removed
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Negative reinforcement
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Always decreases frequency of behavior in operant conditioning
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punishment
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Negative or undesirable stimulus PRESENTED following behavior in order to DECREASE behavior
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Positive punishment
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REMOVAL of desirable stimulus following a behavior for purpose of DECREASING behavior
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Negative punishment
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Helping child learn all events for an action
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Chain
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Instead of directing child how to eat dinner, watching child and focusing on a different action (removing self)
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Fading
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Mother not giving in and buying candy for a child because they had a tantrum, which results in child no longer tantruming.
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Extinction
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TSS tells child how to speak to someone when they meet them, proper behavior
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Prescription
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Pairing something scary or intimidating with a reward
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Systematic desensitization
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Helping client through LEAST to MOST anxiety provoking situation, takes place in REAL setting
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In-vivo desensitization
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Pairing antabuse after alcohol
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Aversion therapy
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Giving a child a reward every time they do something correct in a goal
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shaping
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Patients are rewarded due to adherence to program rules and regulation of treatment plans
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Contingency management frequently seen in drug and alcohol abuse
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Sudden rapid change in level of consciousness and orientation.
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Delirium
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This is due to a medical condition or substance use, or both (rapid onset)
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Delirium
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This includes the inability to maintain focus, confused, and it a medical emergency
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Delirium
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This is a mental disturbance that impacts memory and cognitive impairments
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Dementia
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Dementia is also known as
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Alzheimers
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Dementia can come from
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series of strokes
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Dementia progresses
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slowly
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Ordinarily systematized
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psychotic disorders
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Magical thinking associated with this mental illness
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Schizotypal Personality Disorder
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Brief psychotic disorder
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Lasts no more than one month and at least one day
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Schizoprehniform Disorder lasts
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no more than 6 months
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Schizoprhreniform disorder
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mental disorder diagnosed when symptoms of schizophrenia are present but do not last for full six months
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Schizophrenia lasts
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more than 6 months
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Mental illness with bizarre behavior, impaired communication and social interaction, and restricted activities seen in kids
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Autism
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This diagnosis requires at least one period of mania
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Bipolar I
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Separation anxiety
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12 months (1 year)
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Stranger anxiety takes place
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6-8 months
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Prolonged separation anxiety
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18 months
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Defense mechanism that includes when someone might be angry about their boss, and comes home and hits the dog
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Displacement
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Being pissed off and playing a sport instead of beating someone up
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Sublimation (it comes out in a different way- submerges)
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Buying something and not remembering buying it, going somewhere else in the mind
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Dissociation- common with trauma!
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Saying it was okay that I punched someone in the face because they had a bug on their nose
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Rationalization
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A kid vandalizes a school when is parents are divorcing instead of talking to his parents about his feelings
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Acting out
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An insecure, unhappy man, buys a mercedes in hopes that it makes up for what he lacks
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Compensation
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Instead of being able to process her emotions, a woman goes blind while she is going through a divorce
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Conversion
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Someone leaves the office screaming when they have to wait for the doctor, their defenses are breaking down.
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Decompensation
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Alcoholic thinks they can still drink socially without a problem.
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Denial
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Person with borderline personality disorder decides that her mechanic is evil and a horrible person because he charged her too much for her car.
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Devaluation (deciding someone is all bad due to their actions)
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A young boy looks up to his favorite athlete and doesn't think the athlete is wrong when he beats up his gf, because he can do no wrong in the boy's eyes.
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Idealization
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A person mimics another person in which they look up to (child taling excactly like his mother at all times)- this creates super ego
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Identification
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Teenage girl assumes Marilyn Monroe's identity completely (believes she is Marilyn Monroe)
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Incorporation
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Talking oneself out of what they need because they're afraid of attaining it
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Inhibition
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