Social Work Practice Models Flashcards
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In the Task-Centered Model, what is the primary focus of the social worker's role?
Answer: Collaboratively identifying and completing specific tasks
The Task-Centered Model focuses on helping clients identify specific problems and complete concrete tasks within a brief, structured timeframe.
Which practice model is most closely associated with Erik Erikson's stages of psychosocial development?
Answer: Psychosocial Developmental Model
The Psychosocial Developmental Model draws on Erikson's eight stages of psychosocial development and the concept of epigenesis.
A social worker using the Narrative Model would MOST likely ask which of the following questions?
Answer: What unique outcomes have occurred when the problem did not dominate your life?
Narrative therapy seeks 'unique outcomes' or exceptions to the problem-saturated story to help clients re-author their lives.
The concept of 'circular causality' is MOST central to which practice model?
Answer: Systems/Family Systems Theory
Circular causality, the idea that events are mutually influencing rather than linear, is a foundational concept in systems and family systems theory.
Which of the following BEST describes the concept of 'functional analysis' in Behavioral Social Work?
Answer: Identifying antecedents, behaviors, and consequences (ABC) of a target behavior
Functional analysis (ABC model) examines the antecedents, the behavior itself, and its consequences to understand and modify behavior.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) was primarily developed by which theorists?
Answer: Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg
SFBT was developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee.
In Motivational Interviewing (MI), the acronym OARS refers to which set of techniques?
Answer: Open questions, Affirmations, Reflective listening, Summaries
OARS—Open questions, Affirmations, Reflective listening, and Summaries—are the core communication techniques in Motivational Interviewing.