Intervention and Treatment Planning Flashcards

A social worker using a strengths-based perspective in treatment planning would most likely:

Answer: Build interventions around the client's existing resources and capacities

Strengths-based practice centers treatment planning on identifying and mobilizing the client's existing strengths, resources, and natural supports rather than pathology.

A client in the contemplation stage of change is best supported by which type of intervention?

Answer: Exploring ambivalence and increasing discrepancy between current behavior and goals

Clients in contemplation are aware of a problem but ambivalent; exploring ambivalence and raising discrepancy is the appropriate stage-matched intervention.

A social worker includes 'client will attend three community support group meetings per month' in a treatment plan. This goal best addresses which domain?

Answer: Social support and community integration

Community support group attendance directly targets building social support networks and community integration as part of a holistic treatment approach.

Which of the following is the FIRST step in a structured crisis intervention model such as Roberts' Seven-Stage model?

Answer: Assess lethality and safety

Roberts' Seven-Stage model begins with assessing lethality, imminent danger, and safety needs before building rapport or exploring emotions.

A social worker is using Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) with a rape survivor. A core component of this intervention is:

Answer: Identifying and challenging 'stuck points' — distorted beliefs about the trauma

CPT specifically targets 'stuck points,' which are maladaptive cognitions about the trauma, self, and world that maintain PTSD symptoms.

When a treatment plan is not producing expected progress, the social worker should FIRST:

Answer: Review and reassess the accuracy of the initial assessment and goal relevance

Lack of progress warrants a reassessment of whether the initial assessment was accurate and whether goals and interventions remain appropriate before making other changes.

A social worker helping a client with anger management chooses to use a cognitive-behavioral intervention. Which technique is most consistent with this approach?

Answer: Identifying triggers, automatic thoughts, and replacing them with adaptive responses

CBT for anger management focuses on identifying triggering situations, automatic thoughts, and developing more adaptive cognitive and behavioral responses.