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| What is the maximum number of session that most clients can attend for interpersonal therapy |
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Very concrete that uses specific techniques, such as contracts and homework assignments, to help clients make changes they was by following discrete steps that are laid out along the way. The structure can be effective for people who need accountability and a way to easily measure their progress
Key words: contracting, task-planning, incentives, homework assignments |
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The social worker works with the client to brainstorm solutions. The social worker helps the client brainstorm snno that he or she doesn't feel overwhelmed by it and benefits from an outside point of view. The social worker doesn't do all of the work for the client. Once they have brainstormed some solutions, the client chooses to try one.
Example is a social worker AND the client brainstorming solutions to try one at a time. |
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| What is the purpose of a contract? |
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To hold the client accountable for the change or goal being addressed.
Contracts also give clients sense of self-determination. The client signing the contact is a decision THEY make. |
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| After a serious incident with a client, what is the MOST important thing for the social worker to do after the incident |
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| Record the incident in the client's case notes while the details are fresh in her mind. |
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Theory X - NEGATIVE/AUTHORITATIVE management style that suggests employees dislike work and aren't ambitious, and because of this, the employers need to be in controls and tell employees what to do. The throw applies "scientific management" to all situations.
Theory Y - POSITIVE management style used when managers feel their employees will perform well if they are treated in a POSITIVE manner. |
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| What are the six steps to policy analysis? |
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1. Verify, define, and detail the problem
2. Establish evaluation criteria
3. Identify Alternative Policies
4. Evaluate Alternative Policies
5. Distinguish between alternative policies
6. Monitor the implemented policy |
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| What department processes Medicaid applications? |
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| The Department of Health and Human Services |
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| Structural Family Therapy - Enactment |
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| A technique where clients act out dysfunctional patters of behavior so the therapist can intervene and suggest more positive interactions to use outside of therapy |
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| During Crisis intervention, after having assessed lethality of a crisis and a client is ready to move to the next steps what is the next step the therapist should take? |
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| Establishing rapport with the client |
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| The degree to which what is being measured is actually being measured |
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| What type of training may an angry client benefit from? |
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| Tolerance Training - teaches clients to be more accepting of people and how to remain calm in frustrating situations. |
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| When would passivity training be implemented? |
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| If a client has trouble letting other people of what they want |
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| When would confidence training be implemented? |
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| If the client states that they do not believe in themselves |
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| When would assertiveness training be employed? |
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| When clients have trouble asking for what they want |
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| A technique that involves family members physically arrange each other in order to represent the family's relationship towards one another during specific situations. This technique allows for family members to nonverbally communicate their feelings. |
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| What is the primary purpose of completing a community analysis? |
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| To identify a community's needs in order to provide appropriate services. |
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| When the therapist directs the client to continue the maladaptive behavior. Beneficial to use with resistant clients |
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| Social Security and Medicare consists 96% if the US federal budget for which population? |
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| When might client opposition to what is happening in a session be healthy? |
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| When the social worker is using poor interviewing or intervention techniques. |
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| A technique which includes both minimal prompts and accept responses |
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Groups that have no clear start and stop dates.
Alcoholics Anonymous and Weight Watchers are examples. |
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| What are the steps in the change process? |
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| Engagement, Assessment, Intervention, Evaluation |
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| What are the significance of settlement houses to the field of social work today? |
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| They were the first organized demonstrations of macro social work. |
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Direct involvement of clients and consumers in defining their own problems, strengths, and futures.
Directly related to self-determination and the preservation and respects of dignity and worth of a person |
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| An analysis that explicitly addresses the balance of expense and fiscal benefit. |
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| Evaluation of the final result of a program according to whether it has achieved its goals or not. |
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| What piece of legislation has to do with advance directive implementation? |
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| The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) |
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| Which type of social work practice involves the process of service delivery? (evaluating a service before it is complete) |
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| Which of the types of social work practice evaluation is about looking at the total case and examining areas of possible improvement? AT THE END |
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| Which of the type of social work practice evaluation is about looking at improving services as they are ongoing? |
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| Threat of punishment (Macro) |
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| Having Charisma or a visible relationship with others who have power. |
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| Control of knowledge or expertise |
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| the appearance of legitimate authority |
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| the effort to help a client understand how their thoughts and emotions interact. This involves journaling, medication, and the training of awareness/mindfulness techniques. |
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| What management approach emphasizes the need for a hierarchical power structure? |
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| Weber's Bureaucratic Theory |
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| What is the main driver of short-term interventions in therapy? |
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| The influence of managed care |
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