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Clincial Soc Prac test 3
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Sociology
Undergraduate 4
04/11/2012

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Three important rules(guidelines) to filling out agency forms.
Definition

1.Never use a pencil to fill out a form

2. Don't use correction fluid

3. sighn and date

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You can't accept a case or fill and intake form based on word of another person. What are the 4 exceptions to this rule
Definition

1.The client is incapable of calling due to a mental health emergency in which case other froms are used for this situation

2. The client is a child

3. the client is frail or old

4. the client needs an interpreter to communicate

Term
What is meant by cheif complaint
Definition
Why the person called TODAY
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3 Guidelines for capturing the highlights of the "chiefe complain"
Definition

1. Keep the reason from being to complicated

2. Be very specific

3. keep it brief

Term
Keep Previous Treatment long or brief?
Definition
brief
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What should be placed at the end of the intake form so that the reader knows who took it and when
Definition

Printed Name

Date of Intake

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Disposition includes
Definition
the name of the person to whom you refer the new client and the date of the intake appointment
Term
Two peices of info that must be included under "Verification sent"
Definition
Yes and the Date
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Questions to ask your supervisor before your first interview with an adult: name a couple
Definition

1. Any questions raised by your reading of the clients cases record

2. whom to inlcude in the first interview

3. How long the session should last

4. How often you should see the client

5. How to introduce yourself

6. When and how to record the contents of the first interview

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Your first goals in a first interview are always the same, what are they?
Definition

First allow the client to tell you his/her own story in his/her words

Then let the clint know that you understand what he/she believe, even if its his/her beliefe that he/she does not need to be there

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The overriding purpose (2 parts) of any first interview is to
Definition

Listen

and let the client know you are trying to understand

Term
What is the Miracle Question
Definition
If you could wake up tomorrow and your problem was solved, what would your life be like
Term
In the first interview witha family there are several questoins that you shold remember to ask every family member
Definition

What he or she sees as the problem the family is having

What effect the problem is having on his or her life at the moment?

Term
Always remember to ________ the problem so no one is to blame and each person can see how it is affecting his or her life
Definition
Reframe
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Why is it important when working with families to understand the family life cycle
Definition
Helps you determine what the kind of support system and resources they have
Term
Things to do before your first interview with a child
Definition

Arrange a suitable space and have a paper and pencils available

Ask your supervisor who should be in the interview and when they should be there

Ask you supervisor what yo say to the parents and to the child about confidentiality

Term
What should you ask yourself when interviewing a child?
Definition
Does the child look and sound and act his/her age
Term
Things to do during your first interview with a child
Definition

Remember it is not your place to entertain the child

Let the child establish the distance between you

Ask the child to draw a person and a house, or a tree, or her family

Ask the child: If you could have three wishes, what would they be? explore the answer

 

Ask the Child: if you were going on a rocket ship to the moon and there was one seat for you and one seat for someone else, whom would you take with you? explore the answere

Term
Purpose of a developmental history
Definition
Listening for the parent's feelings of attachment and expectations about the child and clues to the child's innate temperament and developmental progress
Term
When working with a couple never assume....
Definition
that they want to stay together
Term
Thinks to ask yourself when interviewing with a couple
Definition

What life stage the partners in?

What life stage the relationsship iin

Term
Ask both partners of a relationship?
Definition

How they met?

What attracted them to the other?

Whether wish to work on improving the relationship

Term
The purpose of the first interview is to establish the following basic information about the client...
Definition

A sense of who the client is

Potential problems

Current problems that caused the client to seek help now

Weaknesses

Strengths

Term
You have 3 tasks to accomplish in the first interview
Definition

Listen and convey an accurate understanding of the client's perceptions about themselves and their problems

 

To formulate a professional understanding of what it is the client is experiences and what he/she will need from your agency

 

Establish repport with client

Term
Name one of the first things you should do to prepare for the first interview
Definition
Read any records that are available
Term
Why is it best not to have personal photos in your office
Definition
Because it can offend or make your client feel bad or trigor saldy emotions
Term
The most important peice of information is to understand why the client is ...
Definition
HERE NOW
Term
The reason the client has come to the agency now is referred to as the
Definition
Presenting Problem
Term

Explain the "door-knob syndrome"

What to do and not to do

Definition

when the client begins to tell you something of great signficance just as he/she is leaving.

Nicely let the client you appreciate what ever there saying and to keep it for the next session

 

Do no allow clients to leave your office if you believe they are a danger to themselves or others

 

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Task to complete toward the end of the interview
Definition

Ask client if they have any questions and answere them thoughtfully

Working with clients to define their problem in language they can understand...

there are more but fukit

Term
Well formed goals are
Definition

Small

specific

seek presence rather than absence

have beginnings rather than endings

realistic

goals are percieved by the client as hard work

Term
Exceptions
Definition
those occasions in the client's life where the client's problem could have occured but did not
Term
Solution focused questioning focuses on
Definition
who, what, when, and where of Exceptions not who what when and where of problems
Term

scaling question

and example

Definition

Clever way to make complex features of a clients life more concrete and accesbile for both client and worker

 

Rank something between 0 and 10 let say 0 was where you were at with this problem when you first made the call to come see me and 10 means your problem is solved

Term

Coping Question are good for?

and example

Definition

productively developing goals and identifying exceptions

example: you must really have to be strong and find ways to syay positive around your children. How do you do it?

Term
What's better question??
Definition
progress... whats better?
Term
Underlying assumption of the "strenghts perspective"
Definition
all people and environments have strengths
Term
There are two types of degreed persons who make final diagnoses using the DSM who are their interms of of their degree
Definition

PH.D

MD

Term
Psychiatry became more medial with the DSM III and each manual since has become more refined. Name 3 changes in the 3rd edition
Definition

Attempted to use clear english and not mental health jargon

Disorders were labled

 

Multitaxial system was adopted to help the physcian rule out similar disorders

Term
DSM-IV-R stands for?
Definition
Diagnostic and Statisitcal Manua of Mental Disorders
Term
The patient receives a diagnosis along 5 separate diminsions, referred to as...
Definition
Axis
Term
Axis 1 includes?
Definition

Disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolsence (except mental retardation, which is coded in Axis II)

Schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating and sleeping disorders

Term
Axis II
Definition

used to code personality disorders and mental retardation, and significant maladaptive personality traits, and habitual mechanisms

Paranoid, Antisocial, obsessive compulsive

Term
When ther is no diagnosis on Axis I,
Definition
Term
If there is no diagnosis on Axis I, the clinician writes ____
Definition
v71.09
Term
There are ___ categories of personality disorders
Definition
11
Term
Borderline intellectual functioning is recorded on Axis ??
Definition
II
Term
The diferred code(when a clinicain is not yet sure there is a diagnosis for Axis II is
Definition
799.9
Term
Any general medical condition that is relevant should be coded on Axis __
Definition
III
Term
AXIS___ list any psychosocial stressor or environmental problems that appear to have an impact on conditions notes on AXES I,II,III
Definition
4
Term
Axis __ is for the GAF what does GAF stand for
Definition

5

GAF-Global Assesment of Functioning

Term

The number given on Axis 5 is a number from zero to __

zero indicates what?

Definition

100

zero indicates that there was not enough time to adequately assess the functioning

Term
The GAF scale is divided into ___ point increments
Definition
10
Term

The lowest increment of function is ___ to ___

The highest increment of function is ___ to ___

Most individuals requring impatient hospitilization have a GAF scorer of __ or less

Definition

1 to 10

90- 100

50 or less

Term
what is the number for an "unspecified mental disorder"?
Definition
300.9
Term
The mental status exam is based on our ______ of the client
Definition
observations
Term
The first part of a mental status exam is describing the clients
Definition
Appearance
Term
Name one question about a clients speech that you would ask yourself when describing what you observed in ternm of how they speak
Definition

speach clarity

looking for abnormalities

Term
To back up your observations, use both descriptions of the individuals behavior during the interview and _____ _______
Definition
direct quotes
Term
Mental Status Examination is a word picture that tells what the person looks like
Definition
NOW
Term
In the general description of appearance you ALWAYS indicate
Definition
Self- Neglect
Term
Name three things that you are to ALWAYS indicate regarding a client's attitude with you
Definition
Hostility, uncooperative, inappropriate boundaries
Term
Four types of affect you are ALWAYS to note
Definition
Blunt, emotionaly withdrawn, excitement, and any inappropriate  affect
Term
Terminal insomnia means
Definition
Early morning awakening
Term
Middle Insomnia means
Definition
Middle of the night awakening
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Mood refers to
Definition
How the person feels most of the time
Term
Affect refers to
Definition
Appearance while the clients with you "underlying flow of moods"
Term
Process refers to
Definition
How does the client think
Term
Content refers
Definition
What a person thinks about
Term
When referring to labile in terms of a client's emotions, you are reffering to:
Definition
rapid shifts from laughing to cryiing, rage to calm amusement
Term
Flight of ideas is often accompanied by...
Definition
Rapid speach
Term
_____ refers to if the person understands that she is sufering from an illness or has emotional or personal problem
Definition
Insight
Term
______refers to if the the person can critically evaluate his/her situation and make good decisions about a course of action
Definition
Judgement
Term
When there aer problems with memor they usually have to do with three areas
Definition
regestration(understanding), retention(maintaining) and retrieval(bring it back)
Term
example of how to test for "immediate recall"
Definition
tell them something and have them repeat it back
Term
unusual sensory perceptions include 5 sences...
Definition
olfactory, gustatory, tactile, auditory and visual
Term

Oriented X3 what are the 3 areas we are checking

with examples

Definition

Person- can you tell me a little about yourself

Place- where do you live

Time- when did these problems begin

 

Term
When the client insist he is someone else like George bush or sumshit its called
Definition
Delusions of Granger
Term
The beliefe that thoughts are being take and broadcast so that others know what one is thinking
Definition
Thought broadcasting
Term
delusions-
Definition
what the client believs to be true, convinced that rare powers are real and extremely important
Term
an obsessions is always a _______ while compulsion is always a ________
Definition

Though

Deed

Term
people with ________ delusions believe they are being singled out for harassment or are being controlled by forces outside of themselves
Definition
Paranoid
Term
confused shuold be reserved for and means
Definition
not oriented/ disoriented
Term
perseverative
Definition
the person goes over and over the same point or idea
Term
The final part of the MSE is to documen the clients______
Definition
Attitude
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