Unit 3 concepts (Interventions with Clients)

Question 1

Steps of Intervention

Answer 1

engagement 
assessment 
planning 
intervention 
evaluation 
termination

Question 2

stages of change

Answer 2

precontemplation 
contemplation 
preparation 
action 
maintenance 
relapse

Question 3

Problem-Solving Model?

Answer 3

normal intervention steps
goal: enhance client mental, emotional and action capacities for coping with problems and making accessible opportunities and resources to generate solutions to problems

Question 4

Motivational Approach

Answer 4

help client understand that everything is not “okay” right now and assist them to think about good/functional time in their life and set goals toward that

SW must create atmosphere for clients intrinsic motivation

Question 5

Role Playing

Answer 5

learning from observing and imitating, client can learn new skill

• clients are not passive recipients in learning process

live modeling (watching someone model behavior), symbolic modeling (watching behavior recorded), participant modeling (someone models behavior in front of client), and covert modeling (client to use imagination to think about what it would be like to model behavior)

Question 6

Anger Management techniques

Answer 6

1. relaxation exercises - deep breathing, yoga, meditation
2. cognitive techniques - replacing destructive thoughts
3. Communication skills - slowing speech, listening and practicing thinking before saying or reacting
4. environmental change - walking away, avoiding situations or people

Question 7

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Answer 7

goal: change patterns of thinking/ behavior that are responsible for client’s difficulties

works by changing attitudes (cognitions) to change behavior to change how they deal with emotional problems

Question 8

Group therapy

Answer 8

group is agent of change!

if problems arise, client asks group

(people that should not use group - suicidal, paranoid, psychotic, in crisis)

Question 9

Strategic Family Therapy

Answer 9

• active, brief, and task-centered
• more interested in changing behavior than change in understanding
• focus on problem resolution by altering feedback cycle or loop that maintains symptomatic behavior

Question 10

Structural Family Therapy

Answer 10

• engages family members in order to restructure family organization
• restructures based on observing and manipulating interactions in family sessions

Question 11

Readiness for Termination

Answer 11

sessions are uneventful, tone if cordiality rather than a challenge

Question 12

Termination steps

Answer 12

1. evaluate degree client’s goals have been attained
2. acknowledge and address issues related to ending of relationship
3. plan for steps client will take after without SW

(if client is likely to relapse, you an also plan follow up assessments)

Question 13

Formative Evaluations (Evaluate SW practice)

Answer 13

ongoing process that allows for feedback during service delivery (i.e. needs assessments)

Question 14

Summative Evaluations (evaluate SW practice)

Answer 14

at the end of services (i.e. impact evaluations and seeing what people liked overall)

Question 15

cost-benefit analysis (program evaluation)

Answer 15

evaluating the financial costs of operating a program compared to fiscal benefits of outcome

Question 16

cost effectiveness (program evaluation)

Answer 16

similar to cost-benefit, but considers benefits that are not measured by money (illness prevented, lives saved, etc.)

Question 17

outcome assessment (program evaluation)

Answer 17

determining if program has achieved desired goals; changes made to then meet those goals