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| The assessment that focuses on the family as a whole with full participation. All cultures and ethnicities are considered throughout. Families will identify their strengths, needs and resources in an effort to develop a functioning service plan to maintain safety and permanency. |
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| family-centered assessment |
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| Parents with _____________ limitations often demonstrate less positive child-rearing practices. They fail to recognize their children’s needs and lack the skills to advocate for them. A social worker should help the parents become aware of eligible community resources and make referrals as deemed appropriate. |
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| The assessment that gathers all background information on its members and evaluates the home environment. Contributing factors are discussed, such as domestic violence, lack of employment, alcohol/drug usage, and educational background. A social worker will also collect information on who lives in the home and the parent’s culture, health and finances. |
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| comprehensive family assessment |
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| The assessment that is the first priority with a new referral that may indicate a child’s needs are not being met. This is brief and determines whether there are concerns of significant harm, neglect, abuse, and whether services are required. If a child is found to be in need, further assessments will be completed. |
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| Seeing and speaking to family members as appropriate should be a part of what type of an assessment? |
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| A child with this disorder may demonstrate behaviors of defiance, aggressiveness and temper tantrums. |
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| What is the main component that justifies intervention in the best interest of a child. |
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| A type of assessment that is needs-based, team-based, strengths-based, and make use of family systems relationships. |
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| The study of drug-induced changes in thinking, mood and behavior. |
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| This drug is in a class of antidepressants increases the amount of serotonin in the brain. |
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| What is the first step in a psychological assessment? |
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| Type of assessment that involves identifying chief complaint, past psychological history, present illnesses, and current mental status. |
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| A disorder that includes the failure to resist a spontaneous act or behavior that may be detrimental to self or others. |
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| Individuals who suffer from this disorder generally display actions pertaining to stealing, fire starting and violence, but not necessarily insomnia. |
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| Causes of this disorder may be drug abuse and traumatic brain injury, and many people with this disorder have multiple psychiatric diagnoses that will need to be treated simultaneously. |
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| The nation’s leading medical problem is not cancer, lung or heart disease. It has definite causes and affects one in five adult Americans. Research suggests genetic, neurological, biochemical, psychological and environmental origins. What condition is being described? |
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| A mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, frustration, loss and anger interfere with day-to-day life for an extended period of time. Low self-esteem and anger are common. |
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| Fatigue, difficulty with concentration, and irritability are all common symptoms of this disorder. |
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| After a social worker has identified the target behavior of a client, it is time to start collaborative problem solving, including examining the problem situation and developing a hypothesis. There are three parts to this particular type of problem solving: identifying the antecedent, identifying the function of the behavior and: |
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| Identifying a positive replacement behavior. |
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| What are the four methods utilized to obtain a complete understanding of a person’s behavior? |
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| Direct observation, interviews, checklists and tests |
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| What is the term for the priority or most significant behavior? |
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| A type of therapy that places most of the focus on the members’ interactions. The family is viewed as a system that functions within a larger classification such as culture or community. Rules of interaction are established, and these form the family’s structure. Therapy should always focus on the presenting problem and the process of change. |
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| Structural family therapy |
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| A role social workers play that brings components together in an organized manner. This may include advocacy and identification of coordination opportunities. Another avenue would be providing technical assistance in the development and implementation of service linkages. |
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| Acceptance and growth are major themes of what type of therapy? |
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| The humanistic approach to therapy holds a belief that individuals |
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| have the capacity for self-understanding and choice and that human nature is basically good with a potential to maintain healthy relationships and responsible decisions. |
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| Humanistic therapy focuses on |
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| freeing people from disabling attitudes and enabling them to thrive. |
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| The idea that responsibility and freedom enable people to live meaningful lives, even amidst uncertainty, is a major theme of |
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| The existential therapist believes that the human experience is influenced by |
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| biology, culture and luck. |
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| Each individual is responsible for making meaning out of their lives. Therapy helps with |
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| the confrontation of negative internal forces. |
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| Family-centered assessment helps |
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| identify needs, strengths and resources to determine the best possible assistance for a family. The family unit is seen as a whole and full participation is expected. |
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| When completing a comprehensive family assessment, the social worker should consider possible contributing factors, including |
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| domestic violence, alcohol/drug usage, and educational background, and employment status. |
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| This disorder affects approximately 16% of school students. It is often recognized as an ongoing pattern of hostile, uncooperative and defiant behaviors displayed towards authority figures. Symptoms must be observed at home and school to be correctly diagnosis. |
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| Oppositional defiant disorder |
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| When completing an assessment for oppositional defiant disorder. The problem should be observed at _______________. Behaviors must occur in a manner that affects family, social life and academic life. |
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| In order to correctly diagnose ___________, a social worker must observe a specific set of behaviors, including frequent temper tantrums, hateful language directed at others, and annoyance at interacting with other people. |
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| oppositional defiant disorder |
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| _____________causes an individual to demonstrate confusion and major changes in thinking. The disorder worsens over time and there is currently no known cure. Brain cells will begin to fail, and the outcome is always fatal. |
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