Sw300 Quiz 2

What are the risk factors associated with suicide?

1. Feelings of despair and hopelessness 2. previous suicide attempts 3. concrete, available, and lethal plans to commit suicide 4. family history of suicide 5. perseveration about suicide 6.lack of support systems and other forms of isolation 7. feelings of worthlessness 8. belief that others would be better off if the client were dead 9. advanced age 10. substance abuse

What are the 4 areas of maltreatment?

1. Physical 2. Sexual 3. Emotional 4. Neglect

What are the common types of maltreatment that children and older adults may experience?

1. Physical injuries 2. lack of physical care 3. unusual behaviors 4. Financial irregularities

What are the 7 common verbal barriers that can have a negative effect on communication? and give an example of each

1. Reassuring, sympathizing, consoling, or excusing 2. advising and giving suggestions or solutions prematurely 3. using sarcasm or employing humor that is distracting or makes light of client's problems 4. judging, criticizing, or placing blame 5. trying to convince the client about the right point of view through logical arguments, lecturing, instructing, or arguing 6. analyzing, diagnosing, making a glib or dogmatic interpretations 7. Threatening, warning, or counterattacking

List the sources of information for assessments.

1. background sheets or other intake forms the clients complete 2. Interviews with clients 3. Direct observation of nonverbal behavior 4. Direct observation of interaction between partners, family members and group member's 5. Collateral info from relatives, friends, physicians, teachers, employees, and other professionals 6. tests or assessment instruments 7. personal experiences of the practitioner based on direct interaction with clients

Describe the two-dimensional matrix Cowger (1994) developed for assessment that can assist social workers in attending to both needs and strengths?

1. give preeminence to the clients understanding of the facts 2. Discover what the client wants 3. assess personal and environmental strengths on personal level The 2-dimensional matrix framework for assessment that can assist social workers in attending to both needs and strengths. on the vertical axis, potential strengths and resources are depicted at one end and potential deficits, challenges, and obstacles at the other end.

According to the text, what three questioned should be assessed in all situations

1. what does the client see as his or her primary concern? 2. What (if any) current or impending legal mandates must the client and social worker consider? 3. what (if any) potentially serious health or safety concerns might require the social worker's and client's attention?

Define: Assessment

A process designed to develop an understanding of problem, the cause and how to minimize or change it culminating in a professional written document with all of the relevant information synthesized in a cohesive manner.

The Enabler

Assumes primary functions of a family; often a spouse

What is the difference between assessment and diagnosis?

Diagnoses may result from assessments, but the tell only part of the story.

The Hero

Does well at everything provides family with self-worth

Why is it challenging to assess suicide risk in adolescents?

Suicide risk in Children and adolescents - Loss of appetite, use of drugs or alcohol, and deterioration in personal habits

What are the possible roles family members take on in families struggling with addiction?

The addict, the enabler, the hero, the scapegoat, the lost child, and the mascot

Define: Cognitive flexability

The human ability to adapt the cognitive processing strategies to face new and unexpected conditions in the environment

Define: Comorbitity

The simultaneous presence of two chronic diseases or conditions in a patient.

Define: Physical Attending

a basic skill critical to the helping process. communicated by behaviors such as facing the client squarely, leaning forward, maintaining eye contact and staying relaxed.

What is cognitive bias?

a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive process, often occurring as a result of holding onto one's preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information

Define: Genogram

a pictorial display of a person's family relationships and medical history. It goes beyond a traditional family tree by allowing the user to visualize hereditary patterns and psychological factors that punctuate relationships. It can be used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior and to recognize hereditary tendencies.

Define: Assessment

a process occurring between a social worker and client in which information is gathered, analyzed, and synthesized to provide a concise picture of the client and his or her needs and strengths.

Define: self-concept

an idea of the self constructed from the beliefs one holds about oneself and the responses of others.

What specifically can reassuring a client prematurely or without a genuine basis for hope do to a client?

conveys a lack of understanding of clients' feelings

Define: Interpersonal

elating to or involving relations between people : existing or happening between people

The mascot

joker, masks own feelings with humor

What is needed to conduct a culturally competent assessment?

knowledge of cultural norms, acculturation, and language differences. The ability to differentiate between the individual and culturally linked attributes.

Define: Diagnosis

labels or terms that may be applied to an individual or his or her situation.

Define: Intrapersonal

occurring within the individual mind or self

The scapegoat

target of blame for family issues

What is cultural relativism?

the principle of regarding the beliefs, values, and practices of a culture from the viewpoint of that culture itself. Originating in the work of Franz Boas in the early 20th century, cultural relativism has greatly influenced social sciences such as anthropology.

The lost child

un-involved but little trouble