Hw Packet #2 Flashcards
A school social work is observing and assessing a 10-year-old boy who was referred by his teacher for behavior and learning problems. Though the boy seems intelligent I am verbal, he is in attentive in class and has difficulty absorbing certain skills and reading and math . He is easily distracted. He rarely follows instruction and does not finish assignments. The social worker should first consider that the child.
Has a learning disorder
In the first interview conducted in a family agency with voluntary client, the primary purpose of asking questions is
Delineate the presenting problem, so a decision can be made on the appropriateness, scope, and direction of additional interviews or treatment.
A social worker in the neighborhood center receives definitive information that a 14-year-old boy from the area has a pistol that he carries to school. The workers information suggest that he could shoot someone. He is known to the agency, has an angry disposition, and is predisposed to fights. The workers first action is to.
Notify school officials and the police.
The goal of case advocacy is usually too
Secure needs and services for client
When adolescent is confronted with his drug use, and refuses to admit his involvement, despite definitive and competent evidence, this is known as
denial
One goal of individual alcoholism treatment is
to confront denial, and help the client face reality
The concepts of pre-affiliation, power and control, intimacy, differentiation, and separation are associated with
The Boston model of group development
The mission statement of the agency represents
A broad statement of the agencies, goal, and social purposes
as social worker meets a recently widow 55-year-old friend at the supermarket and talks with her briefly. She seems sad and has little appetite for food and reduced interest in her usual activities. She says she has a much diminished desire to visit with friends, though she is normally very social.she says that she really answered the telephone as she does not really want to talk to anyone. The most probably diagnosis is.
unknown and unethical
I mental health agency that seeks to match clients with workers according to ethnic identity and language proficiency is demonstrating
Cultural sensitivity
splitting is defined as
Dividing people into categories of all good or all bad. Abrupt changes in definition are made.
which statement is true about a contract between a client and the social worker?
It is a mutual agreement on goals, limits, and expectations that may change over time
discussion about case termination, our first raised
When developing a case plan with a client
The hospital social worker received definitive information that associate work colleague is engaged in a sexual relationship with a client. in deciding on a course of action, social worker must first consider
The social work code of ethics
according to DSM 5 conduct disorders usually manifest themselves
Between the ages of 6 and 16
A 16 year old adolescent girl engages in bench, eating several times a week. following each episode, she self induced vomit to avoid weight. She claims that she has no control over eating, and that behavior has been occurring for the past year. The most likely diagnosis is.
Bulimia nervosa
Child development research suggest that ability such as comparison and speech development, early childhood most directly with
Parent or caretaker communication with the child
A hospital social worker runs groups, whose purpose is to help cancer patients and their families understand the disease. The groups provides information about the expected physical and emotional consequences of treatment. These groups can best be described as.
Psychoeducational groups
in assessing risk factors of child abuse, associate worker would consider as most important
Parents attitude towards discipline, familyhistory, child’s injuries
A client who is unable to tolerate frustration and has a tendency to discharge tension is said to
Act out
In establishing a professional relationship, as social worker must convey
Positive acceptance
A newly established activity group of 11-year-old boys displayed behaviors that are noisy, disruptive and uncooperative at their third and fourth meetings. The social worker thinks this is a reflection of this stage of group development. We might assume that the group is demonstrating behavior characteristics of what stage of group development?
Power and control
Food stamps, Medicaid and public housing are examples of
In kind assistance
A social worker in a child mental health agency, who is told by a 10-year-old client that she has been sexually abused by a relative should
Make an official child abuse report
