INTRO SOCIAL WORK "Final"

_____ strategies for alcohol or other drug misuse are based on the premise that alcohol or other drug use ranges across a continuum, starting with no consequences for use and ending with devastating consequences for use, with lots of stages in between.

Harm reduction

With some _____ disorders, people experience episodes characterized by abnormally elevated affect and feelings of euphoria, to periods of depression and extreme irritability.

Bipolar

The act of breaking into a house or other building with the intent to steal is called:

Burglary

The specific type of T cell that is vulnerable to HIV is the _____ cell.

CD4T

In managed care, _____ is a form of payment involving a fixed, predetermined payment per person for a specified range of services for a fixed period of time.

Capitation

The social work role of choice for clients with chronic mental illness who have many ongoing needs is:

Case Manager

Current government policy regarding alcohol and drug problems emphasizes and funds all of the following strategies except:

Classification

_____ provide psychotherapy in mental health settings.

Clinical social workers

Opioids include all of the following except:

Cocaine

The second stage in the four-stage recovery model for substance dependence treatment is:

Confrontation

Regarding intervention with groups, traditional strategies in substance abuse groups often have had a _____ focus for the purpose of targeting denial and rationalization processes.

Confrontational

______ is described in the text as the efficient ongoing provision of services by different or the same agencies to meet clients' needs as their circumstances and needs change.

Continuity of care

_____ is a state in which people develop numerous cognitive problems due to some medical problem; an example is Alzheimer's disease.

Dementia

The most prevalent defense used by people who are substance dependent is:

Denial

Which of the following is (are) true about inpatient mental and psychiatric hospitals:

Depending on the problem, the time period clients reside in the facility might be as short as days and as long as a lifetime

_____ is short-term treatment designed to oversee the client's safe withdrawal from the substance to which he or she is addicted.

Detoxification

______ disorders involve a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception:.

Dissociative

_____ was formerly referred to as multiple personality disorder.

Dissociative Disorders

_____ is the conception that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them.

Fatalism

_____ is the process of giving people information, positive or negative, about their performance or behavior.

Feedback

______ social work involves the law and the legal system.

Forensic

Stage three of the four-stage recovery model for substance dependence treatment is:

Growth

Which of the following was (were) listed in the text as a specific provision(s) to improve legislation to protect clients and their rights:

Guarantee patients the right to choose a doctor outside their health plans' networks if they agree to share the cost of services Require companies to set up procedures under which providers could appeal denials of coverage Ensure patients access to detailed information about coverage and treatment options

Which of the following is (are) true:

HIV can be transmitted by having sexual intercourse with an HIV-positive partner

Organizations that provide a wide range of health-care services for participants and employers who typically pay an established monthly fee for services are called:

HMO's

______ diseases are conditions and infections that themselves are usually not life threatening but that take advantage of a weakened immune system and invade it.

Opportunistic

The method of substance administration that takes the most time to take effect is:

Oral Ingestion

Samantha is a staff member in a residential treatment center. Samantha says to Billy (a resident), "Hey, Billy, you really did a nice job completing your chores this week. Way to go!" Samantha is attempting a procedure called ________, hoping that this will increase the frequency of Billy doing his chores on time.

Positive reinforcement

_____ takes place when a person is convicted but the judge determines that confinement is not warranted. Instead, that person is allowed to live in society but under the court's supervision.

Probation

_____ are medical doctors with additional training which focuses on mental health treatment. They are the only professionals who can prescribe psychotropic drugs.

Psychiatrists

_____ is any number of serious mental disorders characterized by disturbed, inappropriate behavior and loss of contact with reality.

Psychosis

______ is described as the practice of targeting suspects on the basis of race.

Racial profiling

_____ is the defense mechanism that involves making excuses for the problems caused by the dependence on the substance.

Rationalization

_____ involves restoring a person to a state of productive, noncriminal functioning in society.

Rehabilitation

The act of stealing property in the hands of another person by using force or the threat of force is called:

Robbery

_____ are thought patterns that sustain a person's convictions and notions about how the world works.

Schemata

______ is a severe mental disturbance characterized by delusions; hallucinations; confused, incoherent speech; bizarre behavior; flattened emotional responses; short, empty verbal responses that lack attentiveness; and inability to participate in goal-directed activities.

Schizophrenia

The text discussed _____, which has developed educational programming in addition to having cut taxes on condoms and gotten religious leaders to participate in AIDS education, thus, sharply reducing infection rates.

Senegal

This route of administration of a substance is quicker than drinking/swallowing, but slower than either inhalation or injection.

Snorting

One of the barriers that multicultural clients might have toward seeking mental health services is that of _____, which is a smear of shame and reproach upon one's reputation.

Stigma

____ cells fight off disease invading the body.

T

What is the common thread between these practices in mental health: (1) comprehensive community support, (2) family education and support, and (3) work encourage and assistance?

They are all evidence based practices

Illegal acts such as prostitution, selling illegal drugs, and unlawful gambling are considered _____ crimes.

Victimless

_____ is a type of test to determine if a person has been exposed to the AIDS virus that is expensive and difficult to administer and, therefore, not used for mass blood screening.

Western blot

Potential questions to ask about a client during substance abuse or dependence assessment that focus on the confusion area include which of the following:

What happens when the client loses self-control over his/her drinking/drugging

Which of the following is (are) true regarding crime rates:

Because lower-class members lack legitimate means to acquire material goods, they may turn to crime

The crime rate for female adolescents has increased by _____ percent.

14

During the 1990s, simply breathing the air in Mexico City during one day was the equivalent of smoking _____ pack(s) of

2

It is _____ times more likely for African American women to go without prenatal care than white women.

2

About ____ percent of the U.S. population who suffer from some form of mental illness or substance abuse disorder receive no treatment for their condition.

40

Over ____ million Americans lack any health insurance.

46

The life expectancy for white males is ____ years greater than for African American males.

6

_____ percent of the world's children who have HIV/AIDS live in Sub-Saharan Africa.

88

_____ is a term referring to dependence on some substance.

Addiction

_____ means passing legal judgment.

Adjudication

Which of the following is (are) true about health care in the United States:

Administrative overhead is the highest in the world

Written, witnessed, signed instructions regarding what individuals wish to have done in the event that they are unable to make decisions are called:

Advanced directives

The act of attacking another person with the intent to inflict serious harm or kill that person is called:

Aggravated assault

______ disorders are persistent or periodic states of extreme anxiety characterized by excessive worry and dread of the future.

Anxiety

In the treatment process for chemical dependence, the _____ interview is one of the goals to determine the best course of treatment.

Assessment

Which of the following is true regarding electroconvulsive therapy (ECT):

ECT is not considered long-term protection against suicide, but rather a short-term treatment for acute illness

_____ is a test to determine if a person has been exposed to the AIDS virus, and is used as the first test. It can also be used to screen donated blood to prevent the AIDS virus from being transmitted to blood transfusions.

ELISA

______ are services provided by organizations that focus on workers' mental health and on adjustment problems that interfere with their work performance.

Employee assistance programs

In a family where substance dependence is involved, _____ assume increasing responsibility for maintaining family functioning and making excuses on the abuser's behalf.

Enablers

Asian American and Pacific Islander values center on the individual decision-making process.

False

At the micro level, generalist social workers conduct group therapy and provide various kinds of family treatment.

False

Bipolar disorder was formerly referred to as multiple personality disorder.

False

Empathy is the process of giving people information, positive or negative, about their performance or behavior.

False

Fatalism is a devotion to and compliance with parental and familial authority, to the point of sacrificing individual desires and ambitions.

False

On the global level, disease such as cholera and typhoid are now extinct.

False

People with Medicaid benefits were found to receive needed surgeries at the same rate as people with private insurances.

False

Positive reinforcement is the act of not only understanding how another person feels but also conveying to that person an awareness of how he or she feels.

False

Psychotherapy is a treatment process that is used by both BSWs and MSWs.

False

Research has found Asians to be more comfortable with more physical contact and smaller interpersonal distances than Western cultures.

False

The United States Congress has passed a national health insurance plan.

False

To date, no industrialized countries have established any national health insurance plans.

False

Many _____ usually work with suicidal, homicidal, or resistant clients and have a strong 12-step group orientation, with clients being expected to attend multiple 12-step meetings during the week.

Inpatient treatment facilities

_____ are professionals from a variety of fields working together for the benefit of clients.

Interdisciplinary teams

_____, linked to drug abuse and dependence, is the development of a series of symptoms, often involving psychological or behavioral changes, directly related to intake of the substance and its influence on the central nervous system.

Intoxication

Which of the following is (are) true about the DSM-IV-TR:

It is the most commonly used classification system for defining and diagnosing mental illness

Dissociative anesthetics include which of the following:

Ketamine

The act of stealing property is called:

Larceny

_____ is the defense mechanism used by people with alcohol problems by assigning little importance to drinking or its consequences.

Minimization

Pompous and pretentious behavior, constant search for admiration, and lack of empathy describes _____ personality disorder.

Narcissistic

_____ is described in the text as a publicly-funded program that would expand the current system of health-care provision to provide some level of coverage to everyone regardless of their ability to pay.

National health insurance

_____ is a mental disorder characterized by feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease that occur in various degrees and patterns:.

Neurosis

The use of _____ is responsible for more than 400,000 deaths in the United States each year.

Nicotine

_____ is known as bottom shelf stimulants.

Nicotine

_____ social work is the provision of mental health treatment by social workers in the workplace under the auspices of employers.

Occupational

Resistance to a drug's effects developed over time as the body adapts to the repeated administration of a chemical compound is called:

Tolerance

A family service association is a type of outpatient treatment agency that offers various types of counseling, often in addition to child welfare services such as adoption and foster care.

True

Almost half of all members of the National Association of Social Workers are employed in the health or mental health fields.

True

Public health departments can assess the sanitation of the environment.

True

Social workers can provide health education aimed at establishing a healthy lifestyle and preventing illness.

True

Social workers have historically served as significant forces in advocating for health-care legislation, policies, and resources.

True

The focus of cognitive therapy is on understanding distorted beliefs and using techniques to change maladaptive thinking.

True

The process of providing services and care for people within their own communities rather than in inpatient mental hospitals is called deinstitutionalization.

True

Which of the following issues was (were) listed in the text as plaguing the U.S. health care system today:

Unequal access to health care Escalating cost of health care Cultural competence

The document listing the official statistics of crimes reported to police is called:

Uniform crime report

All of the following principles are important regardless of the treatment approach or program for chemical dependence except:

Using a choice component