Clinical Flashcards
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A social worker using a strengths-based approach would MOST likely:
Answer: Identify and build upon the client's existing resources and capacities
The strengths-based approach emphasizes identifying clients' existing capabilities, resources, and resilience as the foundation for intervention.
Which condition is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states with recurrent gaps in autobiographical memory beyond ordinary forgetting?
Answer: Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dissociative Identity Disorder involves two or more distinct personality states and significant amnesia for everyday events, personal information, or traumatic events.
A social worker is working with a client from a collectivist culture who defers all treatment decisions to family elders. The MOST clinically appropriate response is to:
Answer: Explore how family involvement aligns with the client's values and incorporate it into treatment
Culturally competent practice requires adapting the treatment approach to honor the client's cultural values, including family-centered decision-making in collectivist cultures.
A social worker notices feeling overly protective of a young client who reminds her of her own child. This reaction is an example of:
Answer: Countertransference
Countertransference occurs when the clinician's own unresolved issues or personal reactions are evoked by and directed toward the client.
Which intervention is MOST consistent with a crisis intervention model?
Answer: Focusing on restoring pre-crisis functioning in the short term
Crisis intervention is time-limited and aims to stabilize the individual and restore functioning to the pre-crisis baseline as quickly as possible.
A client diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder reports that her depressive episodes coincide with shorter daylight hours each fall and remit every spring. The specifier for this pattern is:
Answer: With seasonal pattern
The 'with seasonal pattern' specifier applies when depressive episodes have a regular temporal relationship to a particular season, typically fall/winter onset with spring remission.
In dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), which skill module specifically teaches clients to tolerate distressing situations without making them worse?
Answer: Distress tolerance
The distress tolerance module in DBT teaches skills for surviving crises and accepting reality without engaging in harmful impulsive behaviors.