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Levels of Conscious?

1. Conscious


2. Preconscious


3. Unconscious

Refers to mental activities of which we are fully aware

Conscious

refer to feelings, thoughts and ideas of which we are not currently aware but can bring to awareness relatively easily

Preconscious

Refers to feelings, thoughts and ideas of which we are unaware

Unconscious

Pleasure Principle

ID (Freud Personality)

Reality Principle

Ego (Freud Personality)

Morality Principle

Superego (Freud Personality)

-stage represents child's initial ability to distinguish between self & others


(uses mouth as a means of investigating the world)

Stage 1: Oral Stage (birth-1yr. of age)



Stages of Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development

1. Oral Stage (birth-1 yr)


2. Anal Stage (2-3 yrs)


3. Phallic Stage (3-6 yrs)


4. Latency Period (6-11 yrs)


5. Genital Stage (12-adulthood)

-Stage mostly focuses on teaching child control over bowel & urinary function


(Area associated with erotic pleasure is the anus)

Stage 2: Anal Stage (2-3yrs)

-During this stage the penis, clitoris, and vulva become sources of erotic pleasure


(child begins to associate pleasure derived from self-stimulation with a love object)

Stage 3: Phallic Stage (3-6 yrs)

Founder of Individual Psychology

Alfred Adler

-Service


-Social Justice


-Dignity & Worth of the Person


-Importance of Human Relationships


-Integrity


-Competence

Core Values of Social Work

(1)ethical responsibilities to clients


(2)ethical responsibilities to colleagues


(3)ethical responsibilities in practice settings


(4)ethical responsibilities as professionals


(5)ethical responsibilities to the social work profession


(6)ethical responsibilities to the broader society

Six areas of ethical standards of behavior for social workers

-Commitment to clients


-self-determination


-informed consent


-competence


-cultural competence & social diversity


-conflicts of interest


-privacy & confidentiality


-access to records


-sexual relationships


-physical contact


-sexual harassment


-derogatory language


-payment for services


-clients who lack decision making capacity


-interruption of services


-termination of services

SW ethical responsibilities to Clients

-Respect


-confidentiality


-interdisciplinary collaboration


-disputes involving colleagues


-consultation


-referral for services


-sexual relationships


-sexual harassment


-impairment of colleagues


-incompetence of colleagues


-unethical conduct of colleagues

SW ethical responsibilities to Colleagues

-Supervision & consultation


-education & training


-Performance evaluation


-client records


-billing


-client transfer


-administration


-continuing education & staff development


-commitment to employers


-labor-management disputes

SW ethical responsibilities in practice settings

-competence


-discrimination


-private conduct


-dishonesty, fraud, and deception


-impairment


-misrepresentation


-solicitations


-acknowledging credit

SW ethical responsibilities as professionals

-integrity of the profession


-evaluation and research

SW ethical responsibilities to the Social work profession

-social welfare


-public participation


-public emergencies


-social & political action

SW ethical responsibilities to the boarder society

Primary goal is to help people in need and address social problems

Ethical Principle: Service

Challenges social injustice

Ethical Principle: Social Justice

Respect the inherent dignity & worth of the person

Ethical Principle: Dignity & Worth of the Person

Recognize the central importance of human relationships

Ethical Principle: Importance of Human Relationships

Behave in trustworthy manner

Ethical Principle: Integrity

Practice within their areas of competence & develop and enhance their professional expertise

Ethical Principle: Competence

-Empathy


-Warmth


-Authenticity/genuineness


-Trust

Components of a strong therapeutic relationship

-Viewing client as a unique individual


-allowing client to express feelings in a purposeful way


-interacting with client on a professional emotional level


-responding to client in a non-judgmental manner


-honoring clients right to self-determination & confidentiality

Principles of the casework relationship

The following are all examples of what:


-furthering responses


-paraphrasing


-seeking concreteness


-summarizing


-questioning

Verbal following skills



-open-ended questions


-seeking concreteness


-empathic responding

Focusing skills



method of helping client become more self-aware of components of the thoughts, feelings and behaviors of which client is unaware

Confrontation

-support the goals of therapy and meet the clients needs


-specific


-appropriately timed


-client based

Components of effective confrontation



emotional reaction that an individual has toward another person based on the individuals previous experiences with a different person

Transference

Refers to the range of reaction and responses that the social workers has toward the client

counter-transference

Includes:


-ecological systems (systems perspective)


-Family systems (systems perspective)

Systems Theory

Focus of theory:


How persons interact with their environment. How the family system affects the individual & family functioning across the life span

Systems theory

Suggests that individuals cannot be understood in isolation from one another, but rather as a part of their family, as the family is an emotional unit

Family systems Perspective

Includes:


-Cognitive theory


-behavioral theory


-social learning theory (Social behavior perspective)

Behaviorism & Social Learning theory

Focus of theory:


How individuals develop functioning and learn through acting on their environment

Behaviorism & Social learning theory

Includes:


-Classical psychodynamic theory


-ego-psychology


-object-relations theory


-self-psychology (psychodynamic perspective)

Psychodynamic Theory

Focus of theory:


How inner energies and external forces interact to impact emotional development

Psychodynamic Theory



Focus of theory:


How power structures & power disparities impact people's lives

Conflict theory

A victim of incest, no longer remembers the reason for which she has always hated the uncle who molested her.

Defense mechanism: Repression

Unconscious & involuntary forgetting of painful ideas, events and conflicts

Repression

Unconscious refusal to admit an unacceptable idea or behavior

Denial

A student initially refuses to admit that he is flunking a course despite an F on the first test.

Defense mechanism: Denial

Voluntary exclusion from awareness, anxiety-producing feelings, ideas and situations

Suppression

Michelle states to the nurse that she is not ready to talk about her recent divorce

Defense mechanism: Suppresson

attempts to make or prove that one's feelings or behaviors are justifiable

rationalization

A student initially states, "I got a C on the test because the teacher asked stupid questions"

Defense mechanism: rationalization

Using only logical explanations without feelings or an affective component

Intellectualization

A mom talks about her son's death from cancer as being merciful and shows no signs of her sadness and anger

defense mechanism: Intellectualization

Conscious or unconscious attempt to model oneself after a respected person

Identification

when a little girl dresses up as her mother to play house, she tries to talk and act as her mother

defense mechanism: identification

Unconsciously incorporating wishes, values, and attitudes of others as if they were your own

intojection

while her mother is gone, a young girl disciplines her brother exactly as her mother would

defense mechanism: Introjection

Covering up for a weakness by overemphasizing or making up a desirable trait

compensation

an academically weak high school student becomes a start in the school play

defense mechanism:Compensation

a conscious behavior that is exact opposite of an unconscious feeling

Reaction formation

an older brother who dislikes his younger brother still sends him gifts for every holiday

defense mechanism:reaction formation

channeling instinctual drives into acceptable activities

sublimation

an adolescent with developing sexual interests takes a class on sexually transmitted diseases

defense mechanism:sublimation

discharging pent-up feelings to a less-threatening object

displacement

a husband comes home after a bad day at work and yells at his wife

defense mechanism:Displacement

blaming someone else for one's difficulties or placing one's unethical desires on someone else

Projection

an adolescent comes home late from a dance and states that her date would not bring her home on time

defense mechanism: projection

the unconscious expression of intrapsychic conflict symbolically through physical symptoms

Conversion

a client suddenly develops impotence after his wife discovers he is having an affair with his secretary

defense mechanism: conversion

Doing something to counteract or make up for a transgression or wrongdoing

Undoing

after disciplining her son, a mother bakes his favorite cookies

defense mechanism: undoing

the unconscious separation of painful feelings and emotions from an unacceptable idea, situation, or object

Dissociation

during a stressful class about domestic violence, a student finds herself daydreaming about the holidays

defense mechanism: dissociation

return to an earlier and more comfortable developmental level

Regression

a 6 year old child wets the bed at night since the birth of his baby sister

defense mechanism: regression

(1) Sensorimotor (0-2yr)


(2) Preoperational (2-7yr)


(3) Concrete Operational (7-11yr)


(4) Formal Operational (11+yr)

Piaget's Cognitive Theory states of Development

On the micro level, social workers use this theory to view families in terms of roles, relationships, and family dynamics, and the effect that those factors have on individuals family members

Systems theory

adapting to the events of the environment

Accommodation

the integration of external elements into the evolving structure of the organism

Assimilation

Direct practice

Micro Practice

Indirect practice

Macro Practice

On Macro level, sw use this theory in understanding the interrelated social structure of communities and then use policy advocacy to improve the welfare of society and communities

Systems theory

Refers to working with individuals, couples, families and groups

Direct practice (Micro)

(1) Situational


(2) Maturational


(3)Type of crises developed due to cultural values or societal factors (homosexuality in a heterosexually-oriented society)

3 types of Crises

defined as program planning and development, policy analysis, administration and program evaluation

indirect practice (Macro)

The following are examples of:


Professional therapeutic services include psychotherapy, education, advocacy, referral, mediation and social services

Direct practice

stage 1: Relationship-building, exploration, engagement, assessment and planning


stage 2: implementation and goal attainment


stage 3: termination, planning maintenance strategies, and evaluation

The helping process

_________ theory refers to the relationship of the parts of a system to one another and the effects of those relationships on the system

Systems theory

_______ theory states that society is actually held together through conflict rather than function

Conflict theory (Social conflict theory)

type of crises developed by a stressful event


(seeing someone decapitated)

situational

type of crises developed by a developmentally-based crises (starting school)

Maturational

Social relationships as viewed through this model are about power and explotiation

Conflict theory or Social Conflict theory

1. conduct a thorough biopsychosocial & imminent danger assessment


2. rapidly establish rapport with the client


3. identify the major problems or crisis precipitants


4. deal with the client's feelings and emotions


5. generate and explore alternatives and new coping strategies


6. restore functioning through implementation of an action plan


7. plan a follow-up time to meet with the client

Seven stage Crisis intervention model

_________ incidents are traumatic events that create powerful emotional reactions in the individuals who have been exposed to those events (multiple-casualty, line of duty, workplace violence)

Critical incident stress management (CISM)

Is a specific, 7 phase, small group, crisis intervention process that is conducted 24-72 hours after an incident in which participants talk about their experiences and the positive and negative emotions associated with the incident.


(group leader normalizes reactions & teaches stress response strategies)

Formal Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)

-engagement


-problem-centered assessment


-the development of problem-solving tasks or planning implementation


-performing problem solving tasks


-at beginning of each session, reviewing progress in achieving a task


-SW and client planning a new task or dealing with obstacles to task completion


-evaluation


-termination

Stages of Task-centered treatment

goal of _________ therapy is to enable client to take better control of his or her life. Focuses on current behaviors & beliefs rather than past behaviors. Transference is detrimental to the therapy process.

Reality therapy

__________ therapy uses Classical conditioning and systematic desensitization

Behavioral therapy

these types of therapies basic premise is that our thoughts & beliefs control how we feel and behave

Cognitive Behavior therapies

a short-term approach to treatment based on learning and cognitive theories

Task-centered treatment



involves helping the client unlearn maladaptive responses to environmental stimuli


(fear of riding in car after accident)

Classical conditioning

a counter-conditioning intervention frequently used in treating phobias that utilizes relaxation training, construction of the anxiety hierarchy, and desensitization in imagination

Systematic desensitization

involves the pairing of relaxation and real-life experience with an anxiety-producing stimulus until the person no longer responds to the experience with anxiety

In Vivo Desensitization

training an individual to communicate his or her feeling sin a direct and honest manner. Behavioral rehearsal is an important component of assertiveness training

Assertiveness training

states that individuals have a number of innate needs, including 4 psychological needs


-belonging


-power


-freedom


-fun

Reality therapy

3 ___________ perspectives:1. Cognitive therapy (Beck)2. Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) (Ellis)3. Self-management/self instruction (Meichenbaum)

Cognitive Behavioral therapies

Believed that depression was a bias of negative thought and that most mental illnesses were based on pervasive negative thoughts

Beck

the belief that it is either one way or another, bu there is no gray area

All-or-nothing thinking/ black-and-white (dichotomous) thinking

refers to an individual believing that something is true because the individual feels strongly about it and ignores evidence to the contrary

Emotional reasoning

occurs when an individual arrives at broad principles derived from minimal information

Overgeneralization

refers to an individual magnifying the negative and minimizing the positive in evaluations of himself or herself and others

magnification & minimization

is a thinking error that occurs when person "A" erroneously believes that the negative behavior of person "B" is the result of something that person "A" has done

Personalization

Assuming that the worst will happen

Catastrophizing

takes place when an individual assumes that he/she knows another person's thoughts on an issue

Mind reading

-all-or-nothing thinking


-emotional reasoning


-overgeneralization


-magnification & minimization


-personalization


-catastrophizing


-mind reading

Common thinking errors

therapy requires:


-formation & maintenance of a good therapeutic alliance


-collaborative effort between client & SW


-is goal-oriented & problem focused


-focus primarily on the present & has a large educational component


-time limited and relatively strict structure


-emphasizes relapse prevention


-client taught how to identify, evaluate and change dysfunctional thoughts & beliefs

Beck's Cognitive Therapy

___________ therapy methods include:


-collaborative empiricism


-socratic dialogue


-guided discovery


-decatastrophizing


-reattribution training


-decentering

Cognitive

Techniques used:


-miracle question


-exception-finding questions


-presuppositional questions


- compliments


-listening skills


-empathy


-scaling questions

Techniques used in Solution Focused therapy

is a method during which the client and sw work in tandem to test the validity of the client's beliefs

Collaborative Empiricism

is a technique to help clients see that events are really not the end of the world, even if they are relatively difficult

decatastrophizing

is the use of questions to lead the individual to discover a reality

Socratic Dialogue

involves the identification of cognitive errors & distortions in thinking followed by the consideration of alternative beliefs

Reattribution training

is a process whereby interventions are structured, including the use of progression of questions, to enable clients to discover inaccuracies in their thinking

Guided Discovery

directly attacks the clients belief system and encourages the client to challenge him/her own belief




-identifies common irrational beliefs, which are series of demands and absolutes

Ellis Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

Components of ____________ therapy include:


- describing the problem (not the focus of treatment)


-develop well-formulated goals


-work cooperatively to identify solutions to problems


-end of session feedback


-evaluation of client progress

Solution Focused therapy

Karen Horney


Harry Stack Sullivan


Erich Fromm

Neo-Freudians

involves helping the client to break his/her pattern of seeing self as the reference point for all life events

Decentering

-SW educates client about principles


-SW challenges the rationality of the client's belief & assists client in learning how to challenge his/her own beliefs


-SW & client work together to dispute the irrational beliefs that result in distressing negative consequences


-client homework includes reading relevant books & critiquing tapes of his therapy sessions an effort to increase awareness of his irrational beliefs

Rational Emotive Therapy

A= Activating Events


B= Belief System of Individual


C= Consequent Emotion of A & B


D= Disputing Irrational Thoughts & Beliefs


E= Emotional & Cognitive effects of revised beliefs

Ellis Explanation of Personality

Focus on the clients self-statement


maladaptive self-statments ofern underlie problems

Self-Instruction Training

- a therapeutic approach developed in part from behavioral and cognitive therapy


- short-term, strength based treatment model which emphasizes an empowerment strategy to allow the client to take action himself


(client is capable of change & growth)

Solution focused therapy

interventions strategies include:


-encouraging client to talk about childhood experiences


-interpretation of the impact of childhood experiences on present functioning and relationships


-dream analysis


-analysis of transference or resistance


-provision of a therapeutic environment that supports adjustments in the individuals sense of self, in his functioning

Object Relations therapy

used to obtain a quantitative measure from client on different issues and progress at different points in therapy




(example: on a scale from 1 to 10)

scaling questions

used to help client start to envision what he wants to be different in life




(if you were to wake up tomorrow......)

Miracle question

view of therapy include:


-an authentic collaborative & egalitarian relationship between SW & client


-belief that to understand a person, one must understand his subjective experience


-rejects traditional assessments techniques and disgnostic labels

Humanistic/existential model

helps client conceptualize goal attainment (the who, what, how, why and where)

Presuppositional questions

help client to identify what has previously worked concerning the problem with which he was confronted and to engage in more of the effective action or behavior

Exception-finding questions

typically downplay importance of instinctual forces in personality and emphasize interpersonal and social influences

Neo-freudians

believed that personality consists of the relationships that contributed to its formation along with the dynamisms, or reciprocal patterns, that resulted from these relationships




-emphasis on importance of relationships over the lifespan

Harry Stack Sullivan

the first few months of life are related to a discreet series of momentary states

Prototaxic mode

entails seeing causal connections between events that occur at about the same time but that are actually unrelated


(maladaptive behavior are thought to attribute to these)

Parataxic mode

occurs at the end of the first year of life and is characterized by logical, sequential, internally-consistent and modifiable thinking

Syntaxic mode

Therapy focuses on early childhood experiences and relationships with significant others in childhood, in particular, Mother, as well as the resulting personality structure

Object Relations Therapy

characteristics of this model include an emphasis on the uniqueness and wholeness of the individual, a belief in the individuals inherent striving for self determination and self-actualization, and a focus on current behavior

Humanistic/existential model

-directed awareness


-no questions


-I language


-enactment


-guided fantasy visualization


-loosening/integrating


-body techniques


-dreamwork


-stay with it/feel it out

Focusing techniques

theory includes the belief that human beings have an inherent tendency toward self-actualization (achievement of their full potential)

Person-Centered Therapy

-Introjection


-projection


-retroflection


-confluence

Four Major boundary disturbances

is the absence of a boundary between the self and the environment. Causes intolerance of any differences between oneself & others and often underlies feelings of guilt & resentment

Confluence

occurs when a person believes the external perception of whole. difficulty distinguishing between "me" and "not me"

Introjection

described as doing to oneself what one wants to do to others. redirecting anger one has for another person inward

Retroflection

a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Fritz Perls that focuses on insight into gestalts in patients and their relations to the world, and often uses role-playing to aid the resolution of past conflicts.

Gestalt

is a technique that involves the SW use of "I" statements rather than making impersonal interpretations (what the SW sees and hears)

"I language"

a technique whereby the social worker helps the client become aware of his immediate experiences

Directed awareness

a technique which involves asking the client to act out feelings or thoughts to increase awareness (e.g. empty chair, role playing, psychodrama, exaggerating a thought, feeling or motion)

Enactment

a technique which places the focus on increasing one's own awareness of his experiences in the here and now

"No questions"

Goal if therapy is to help the client achieve integration of the various aspects of the self in order to become a unified whole

Gestalt Therapy

is a technique that involves having the client create mental image of an experience

Guided fantasy visualization

techniques used for increasing the clients' awareness of their bodies, and helping them to learn new ways of using their bodies to create additional self awareness

Body techniques

is a technique which focuses on recurring dreams

Dreamwork

techniques involve encouraging the client to think in a new way (asking the client to imagine believing the opposite of what he believes about something)

Loosening/integrating

a technique that involves encouraging the client to allow himself to continue to feel the emotion of the moment. This technique increases the client's capacity to experience his feelings fully

Stay with it/feel it out

Assist members in negotiating developmental stages & adapting to changes in roles or environment (e.g. a group for new immigrants)

Socialization Groups



Provide group members with personal growth opportunities as opposed to remediation (e.g. a marriage enrichment group)

Growth groups

Provide members with remediation and/or rehabilitation (e.g. a group for adults molested as children)

Therapy group

help members learn specific info & skills that will be personally beneficial (e.g. a group to educate adolescents about AIDS)

Educational groups

comprised of members with a common problem or set of circumstances (e.g. a group for single fathers) who provide each other with assistance in dealing effectively with their situation

Support groups