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Theories - correct answer ✅Are general explanations supported by evidence obtained through the scientific method. Psychoanalytic Theory - correct answer ✅Sigmund Freud Client is a product of his past Treatment involves dealing with repressed material in the unconscious Personalities arise because of attempts to resolve conflicts between the unconscious sexual and aggressive impulses and social demands to restrain these impulses 3 Levels of Awareness - correct answer ✅Preconscious, Conscious, Unconscious Preconscious (3 Levels of Awareness) - correct answer ✅Info outside of the client's attention but available and easy to bring to consciousness. Conscious (3 Levels of Awareness) - correct answer ✅Info the client is paying attention to at any given time.
Unconscious (3 Levels of Awareness) - correct answer ✅Thoughts, feelings, desires and memories of which a client has no awareness but that influences every aspect of their day-to-day lives. 3 Components of Personalities - correct answer ✅Id, Ego, Superego Id (3 Components of Personalities) - correct answer ✅Instinctual energy, biological urges, impulses toward survival, sex and aggression. Unconscious. Pleasure principle - the drive to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. Ego (3 Components of Personalities) - correct answer ✅Manages conflict between Id and the real world. Has unconscious, preconscious or conscious parts. Reality principle - the awareness that gratification of impulses has to be delayed in order to accommodate the demands of the real world. Role is to prevent the Id from gratifying its impulses in socially inappropriate ways.
Oral (Stage of Development) - correct answer ✅Birth-12 months Pleasure centers on mouth; sucking, biting, chewing. If not satisfied result is excessive smoking, overeating, or dependence on others. Anal (Stage of Development) - correct answer ✅Age 2 (during toilet training) Pleasure centers on Bowel movements. If not satisfied result is an overly controlling (anal-retentive) personality or an easily angered (anal-expulsive) personality. Phallic (Stage of Development) - correct answer ✅Age 3 to 5 Pleasure centers on Genitals. If not satisfied result is Guilt or anxiety about sex. Latency (Stage of Development) - correct answer ✅Age 5 to Puberty Pleasure centers on Sexuality is latent, or dormant, during this period.
No fixations at this stage. Genital (Stage of Development) - correct answer ✅Begins at puberty Pleasure centers on The genitals; sexual urges return. No fixations at this stage. Fixation - correct answer ✅Is an inability to progress normally from one stage into another. Oedipus complex - correct answer ✅A male child's sexual desire for his mother and hostility toward his father. Castration anxiety - correct answer ✅Fear of penis being cut off, child accepts father and authority results in superego. Primary techniques used in psychoanalytic psychotherapy - correct answer ✅analysis of dreams, resistances, transferences, and free associations
Mirroring (3 self object needs) - correct answer ✅Validates the child's sense of a perfect self. Idealization (3 self object needs) - correct answer ✅Child borrows strength from others and identifies with someone more capable. Twinship/Twinning (3 self object needs) - correct answer ✅Child needs an alter ego for a sense of belonging. Ego Psychology - correct answer ✅Based on an assessment of a client as presented in the present (here and now) focuses on the rational, conscious processes of the ego. The goal is to maintain and enhance the ego's control and management of stress and its effects. Psychosocial Stages of Development - correct answer ✅Erik Erikson Focus on how children socialize and how this affects their sense of self.
8 Stages of Psychosocial Development (Erik Erikson) - correct answer ✅Trust vs. Mistrust Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt Initiative vs. Guilt Industry vs. Inferiority Identity vs. Role Confusion Intimacy vs. Isolation Generativity vs. Stagnation Ego Integrity vs. Despair Trust vs. Mistrust (8 Stages of Psychosocial Development) - correct answer ✅Birth to 1 year Trust based upon consistency of caregiver. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (8 Stages of Psychosocial Development) - correct answer ✅Age 1 to 3 Child asserts their independence, walks away from caregiver, picks likes and dislikes. Initiative vs. Guilt (8 Stages of Psychosocial Development) - correct answer ✅Age 3 to 6
Child establishes career, settles down begins family develops a sense of being a part of the bigger picture. Ego Integrity vs. Despair (8 Stages of Psychosocial Development) - correct answer ✅Senior Citizens Slow down, explore life as a retired person. Object Relations Theory - correct answer ✅Margaret Mahler Lifelong relationship skills are strongly rooted in early attachments with parents, especially mothers. Objects refer to people, parts of people, or physical items that symbolically represent either a person or part of a person. Normal Autism (Phases of Object Relations) - correct answer ✅0-1 month Infant is detached and self-absorbed. Spends most time sleeping. Normal Symbiotic (Phases of Object Relations) - correct answer ✅1-5 months Child is aware of mother.
No individuality, the child and mother are one. Separation/Individuation (Phases of Object Relations) - correct answer ✅Subphase Differentiation/Hatching 5-9 months Aware of difference between self and mother. Increased alertness and interest in the world. Child uses mother as a point of orientation. Practicing (Phases of Object Relations) - correct answer ✅9-15 months Crawl and walk freely. Child explores and becomes more distant from the mother. Experiences self still as one with mother. Rapprochement (Phases of Object Relations) - correct answer ✅15-24 months Child becomes once again close to mother. Awareness of phsycial mobility = psychic separateness from mother. Toddler is tentative, wants mother in sight.
Formal Operations (Stage of Cognitive Development) - correct answer ✅11+ yrs; characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning beyond the here and now Attachment Theory - correct answer ✅theory based on John Bowlby's work that posits that children are biologically predisposed to develop attachments to caregivers as a means of increasing the chances of their own survival Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - correct answer ✅Physiological, Safety, Social (love and belonging), Esteem, Self actualization Think order of prioritizing problems or issues with a client 5 Stages of Grief - correct answer ✅Denial and isolation Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance
Person-In-Environment (PIE) Theory - correct answer ✅A perspective that recognizes the complexity of interactions between people and their environment, and promotes the notion that people both shape and are shaped by their environment. Defense Mechanisms - correct answer ✅Are automatic, involuntary, usually unconscious psychological activities to exclude unacceptable thoughts, urges, threats, and impulses from awareness for fear of disapproval, punishment, or other negative outcomes. Are sometimes confused with coping strategies, which are voluntary. Serves as an important protective function. Protect the ego. Acting Out, Splitting etc. What would a client be doing or saying while using a defense mechanism? Family Life Cycle - correct answer ✅1. Family of Origin Experiences
Leads to children who rank low in happiness and self regulation, experience problems with authority and perform poorly in school Uninvolved Parenting - correct answer ✅Few demands, low responsiveness, little communication. Fulfill basic needs generally detached from their children's lives. Lead to children ranking lowest across all domains, lack self-control have low self-esteem and less competent than peers Circular Questioning - correct answer ✅Is a technique that can be used to explore differences between the family members. Alcohol Withdrawal - correct answer ✅Includes Seizures Honeymoon phase of Domestic Violence - correct answer ✅ Borderline Personality disorder (Male/Female), major defense mechanisms -
correct answer ✅Men exhibit different patterns of impulse-related disorders Projective identificaction Paraphilias behaviors DSM 5 - correct answer ✅ Classical conditioning - correct answer ✅ Operant conditioning - correct answer ✅ negative reinforcement - correct answer ✅ Extinction - correct answer ✅ Geriatric Depression Inventory - correct answer ✅
Involuntary - correct answer ✅Right to refuse treatment. Right to refuse to give permission to the hospital to contact his family. Right to keep the record of his admission confidential. Does not have the right to leave the hospital regardless of his condition. Confrontation - correct answer ✅ Reflection - correct answer ✅ Clarification - correct answer ✅
Partialization - correct answer ✅ Malpractice Suit - correct answer ✅right to disclose client information to the court to defend against a malpractice lawsuit Boundaries (Code of Ethics) - correct answer ✅ Dual Relationship (Code of Ethics) - correct answer ✅Occur when social workers relate to clients in more than one relationship, whether professional, social, or business. Can occur simultaneously or consecutively. Mandated Reporting - correct answer ✅ Social Work Core Values - correct answer ✅Service Social Justice Dignity and Worth of the Person