- designed to protect both clients & members - define limits of permissible behaviour - help with decision making - shelter clients from unethical practice - guidance on how counselors can deal w/ employees

Final Exam Flashcards by Adam Yahya

Social Workers (uphold? advocate for?)

uphold rights for access to basic human resources
advocate for equal opportunity to public service and benefits
advocate for equal treatment and protection under the law, and challenge injustices

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Ethics

designed to protect both clients & members
define limits of permissible behaviour
help with decision making
shelter clients from unethical practice
guidance on how counselors can deal w/ employees

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Beneficence

promoting clients best interest (benefit)

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Types of ethical dilemmas

distribution of scarce resources
(time, money)

behaviour of clients

policies of agency that appear offensive/insensitive to needs of clients it serves

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How to resolve ethical dilemma

Autonomy
- honour clients self-determination

Fidelity
- be loyal/honest

Nonmaleficence
- do no harm to others

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Ethical Principle Hierachy

Protection of life
Equality
Autonomy
Least harm
Privacy
Truthfullness

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Competent Counselor

works within limits of competence
pursues continuous training
self aware of personal reactions

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How to increase self awareness

continous feedback
demonstrate readiness
active listening

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Vicarious trauma

when counselor develops same symptoms as traumatized clients

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How to prevent vicarious trauma

set up a support system
healthy habits
lifestyle balance
accept inability to help some people

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what leads students to choose social work as a career

positive choices
constraining factors

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biographical routes into sw

service user
- adversity/hardship

personal carer
- cares for others

citizen route
- injustice/pain around them

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conceptualization (findings)

shapes practice abilities

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reflection (findings)

overcome emotional roadblocks

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desirable attributes

autonomy
flexibility
open
curious
mature
confident

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Rational emotive behaviour therapy
(REBT)

Albert Ellis
- we have the ability to control our emotional destiny

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ABC Theory of Irrational Thinking

A - activating event
B - belief system
C - emotional Consequence

D - disputing irrational beliefs
E - creating new Effects

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selective abstraction

conclusions based on isolated detail

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arbitrary inference

conclusions without supporting evidence

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overgeneralization

extreme beliefs on single incident and applying wrongly to dissimilar events

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magnifcation/mini

perceiving situation as greater or less light than it deserves

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dichtomous thinking

all or nothing thinking

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Dysfunctional belief

“i should always be available for who needs me”

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Disputation

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“why must i be available”

Constructive belief

"i will place limits and understand clients demand can be too much"

Requirments for BSW

Commitment Skills Linking knowledge Attendance Empathy Wellness of personal needs

Coaching

short to medium term aimed at identification, utilization of strengths to enhance traits seperate profession from counselling

Counselling

listening and understand clients strategies for change and growth psychology

psychotherapy

deepseated client issues more time needed short sessions, medication treatments

5 stages of counselling session microskills

empathetic relationship story and strength goals restory action

brain constantly developing new neural networks

brain plasticity neurogenisis

thalamus

relay and attention

anterior cingulate

blood pressure decisions empathy

prefrontal cortex

positive emotions

hippocampus

memory

golden rule/platinum rule

treat clients how you want to be treated treat clients how they want to be treated

respectful cube

social justice issues locus (individual, family, community)

3 V's + B

Visual/eye contact Vocal qualities Verbal tracking Body language

when to redirect attention

subtle shifts in posture/vocal tone deliberate jumps to more positive topics

usefulness of silence

clients cant talk when you do auditory cortex remains active when you are attending to silence

empathy

experencing clients world and story as if you were the client

subtractive empathy

counselors response give back less what the client said

basic empathy

counselors responses interchangeable with client

additive empathy

counselors response adds/links something client said earlier

Samurai Effect

Practice changes your body Skills and specific Brain drives the brawn Practice = crucial Short term intensity cannot replace long term commitment practice provides continuous feedback loop

open questions

cannot be answered with few words deeper exploration encourages max info what, how, why, could, would

value of questions

open new areas for discussion help highlight strengths/goals clarify issues

positive/negative asset search

need to search for positives as they are essential for client growth negative emotions are stored in amygdala (limbic system)

questions as statements

"dont you think it would be helpful if you studied more" to "what occurs to you as you think about improving your grades?"

Why questions (lead to what)

client may get defensive/discomfort

Antecedent-behaviour-consequence-thoughts-emotions (ABC-TE)

Antecedent Behaviour Consequence Thoughts Emotions

movement complementarity

movements are mirrored between client and interviewer

accularation

degree to which individual has adapted to norms of behaving in given culture

active listening skills

encouraging paraphrasing summarizing

cognitive empathy

understanding others emotions seeing their perspectives

affective empathy

increased activity in the insula

six primary emotions to observe and recognize

sad mad glad disgust scared suprised

micro, mezzo, macro levels of sw

micro - individuals mezzo - groups macro- larger systems

Final Exam Flashcards

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