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Psychoeducation

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Teaching someone about mental health, learning how to slow the progression of a disease/limit, long-term implications

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Cage assessment

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Substance use assessment to assess the depth of someone’s alcohol use, stands for cut down, annoyed, guilty, eye-opener.

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At what point in the problem-solving process should the social worker discuss written policies with the client?

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Throughout the entire process

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What is the first step in a functional behavioral assessment?

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Defined the problem. Should be specific, observable, measurable terms.

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Shared power

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Views clients as experts on their own lives

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Shaping

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Refers to reinforcement of behaviors that help obtain new behaviors through succession of steps and rewards

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Receiving ongoing support from others will increase the capacity to what?

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Heal

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Sublimination

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To take a socially unacceptable impulse and turn it into a socially acceptable action. Example someone that was constantly fighting becoming a professional boxer.

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Structural family therapy

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Focuses on the problems here and now and asks for enactments to see how families communicate

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Contract

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Recovery or treatment plan

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Standard of care

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Treatment that is accepted by medical experts as a proper treatment for a certain type of disease and that is widely used by health care professionals.

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Blending funding

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One big pot of money

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Braiding funding

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Multiple streams of money in which accounting for every dollar spent is required

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Negative punishment

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Decrease behaviors by taking away something desirable. Example cell phone.

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Universalization

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Tell his clients they aren’t alone in their feelings and are not uncommon given their circumstances

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Xenophobia

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Fear of foreigners, strangers, and their

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Case mix adjustment

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Statistically controlling for group differences when comparing non-equivalent groups on outcomes of interest

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Fee splitting

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Receive a commission for referrals. This is an unethical practice.

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When should you withhold records?

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If it will cause serious harm

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Values

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Principles held by people to help guide behaviors

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Ethics

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Moral codes of conduct that decide what is right or wrong about behaviors

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Equality

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The same for everyone

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Equity

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What is fair

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Participant observation

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Method in ethnographic research where a social worker watches the people of a certain community or organization

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Ethnography
Type of qualitative research that involves immersing yourself in a particular community or organization to observe their behavior and interactions up close
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At what age does object permanence begin?
Eight months
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Are the members of a group legally mandated to keep information confidential?
No
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To be able to barter with a client, the social worker has to what?
Determine that it won’t be detrimental to the client
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In an abusive relationship, the blame, lies with who?
The perpetrator
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What is an example of cultural sensitivity?
Asking a client what they would like to be called
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External validity
The extent to which the results will be the same if the population changes
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List the four deficiency needs
Physiological, safety, social and esteem
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What is a growth need
Self actualization
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What type of drug is clozaril?
An antipsychotic
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What kind of drug is lithium?
A mood stabilizer
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Lawrence Colberg is known for what?
Moral development
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How many stages of moral development are there?
Six stages, three levels
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Sigmund Freud is best known for what
Psychosexual stages of development
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How many stages of psychosexual development are there
5 stages
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Psychoanalytic theory
Client is a product of their past and treatment mostly consists of exploring repressed material
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Groupthink
Choosing something to protect the group even though they wouldn’t pick that individually
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Malingering
Intentionally making up symptoms for the persons own benefit
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Anorexia nervosa
Eating disorder in which a person restricts their food intake and that should be treated in conjunction with a medical professional
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What mental disorder has the highest mortality rate?
Anorexia nervosa
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Amenorrhea
Not getting a period
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Are men with anorexia nervosa, more or less less likely to seek treatment?
Less, which leads to more men dying from anorexia than women
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Bipolar one
Full-blown mania for more than seven days. Up periods Lasting weeks or months, then down. Lasting weeks or months, does not need a depressive episode to be present.
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Bipolar two
Hypomania because is less than seven days, cycles are faster, less severe, requires a depressive episode be present.
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Cross-sectional studies
observational studies that analyze data from a population at a single point in time.
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Prazosin treats what
PTSD
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Self disclosure should only be used when?
As the last resort
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Parallel process
The over identification with the client and their issues, the therapist resonates with and response to from experience of their own life
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Bipolar one disorder with melancholic features
Features loss of pleasure and almost all activities that are usually pleasant sometimes with decreased appetite and weight loss
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Self-concept
How one sees themselves
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Negative symptoms
The term negative symptoms describes a lessening or absence of normal behaviors and functions related to motivation and interest, or verbal/emotional expression.
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Positive symptoms
The positive symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, illogical changes in behavior or thoughts, hyperactivity, and thought disorder.
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Sigmund Freud, five stages of psychosexual development
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
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Ages of the oral stage
Birth to 18 months
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Ages of the anal stage
One to three years
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Ages of the phallic stage
3 to 5 years
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Ages of the latency stage
5 to 13 years
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Ages of the genital stage
11 to adult hood
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What are the six values of the code of ethics of social work?
Service, social justice, dignity, and worth of the person, human relationships, integrity, and competence
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Reaction formation
Defense mechanism where a person reduces anxiety by adopting beliefs that are different from their own
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General systems theory
Primary focus is mechanisms of homeostasis
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The Gottman method
Couples therapy that focuses on assessing a relationship between couples while attempting to increase affection, remove barriers and create
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Psychoanalytic theory
Consist of the conscious mind, unconscious mind and preconscious mind
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Conscious mind
All the info we are paying attention to at any given time
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Unconscious mind
All the rest of the information we know that we are not currently paying attention to
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Preconscious mind
All info that is available if needed
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Block Grant
Money from the government that can be spent however
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Categorical grant
Money from the government for a specific item
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Revenue sharing
Money from the government with no restrictions at all
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Soap notes
Subjective, objective, assess, plan
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Subjective
Refers to personal views on a subject
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Objective
Refers to factual information on a subject
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Disparities
Pain during intercourse
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Difference between OCD and OCPD
OCD is an anxiety disorder with obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, and OCPD is a personality disorder where people strive for perfection, are never satisfied with their achievements, and desire control
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Existential theory
Acceptance of the clients, fundamental autonomy, freedom of choice, and social workers commitment to the concept of self determination
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Cognitive theory
Focuses on clients, conscious, thinking, processes, reasons, and motivations for certain behaviors
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Psycho analytic theory
Hypothesis and treatment application of human personality and its development
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Translational research
Findings from research that are app applied into practical application
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Single subject design
Social workers should have control over the clients environment when using this design. Ex example when they are impatient.
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Insomnia requires troubles sleeping for how long?
At least three months
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What happens during an initial meeting?
Going over expectations and boundaries
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Executive Directors
Oversee program activities
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What should you ask yourself if you are considering making a report to CPS
Do I have enough info to make a report? If not, you should gather more information.
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Three clusters of personality disorders
Cluster a – add and eccentric. Includes paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal. Cluster B – dramatic and erratic. Includes antisocial, narcissistic, borderline, histrionic. Cluster see – anxious and fearful, includes avoidant, independent, obsessive, compulsive personality disorder.
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Ephebiphobia
Fear of young people/teenagers
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Trypanophobia
Fear of needles
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Mysophobia
Germ phobia, fear of germs, and contamination
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Geriatric evaluation scale
geriatric assessment is a tool that doctors use to evaluate a person's health and well-being. It looks at your physical function, nutrition, other medical conditions, mental health, thinking and attention ability, current medications, and how much social support you have at home.
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Three levels of moral development
Pre-conventional, conventional, postconventional
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Preconventional stage of moral moral develop
It just 3 to 7 where morals are based on rewards and punishment
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Conventional stage of moral development
Ages 8 to 13 where morals are based on external ethics
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Post conventional stage of moral development
Adulthood, morals are based on personal ethics
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Six stages of moral development
Avoiding punishment, self interest, good boy, attitude, law, and order morality, social contract, principle
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What happens in the phallic stage?
Stage in which a boy is very interested in his penis and a girl is envious of not having a penis
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What happens during the latency stage?
Preoccupied with activities with same-sex friends
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What happens in the genital stage?
Interest in sex with the opposite sex, libido appears
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What should you do if someone is listing all the signs of depression?
Assess for suicide risk
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Symptoms of depression
Lack of motivation, changes and sleeping eating habits

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