Clinical Intervention Strategies Flashcards
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A social worker is treating a client with Major Depressive Disorder using Behavioral Activation. What is the core premise of this intervention?
Answer: Increasing engagement in rewarding activities disrupts the depression cycle
Behavioral Activation holds that increasing contact with positive reinforcement through scheduled activities breaks the withdrawal-depression feedback loop.
In Narrative Therapy, a clinician helps a client rewrite their dominant problem-saturated story by identifying times it did not apply. These are called:
Answer: Unique outcomes
Unique outcomes (or exceptions) are moments that contradict the problem story and become the foundation for constructing an alternative narrative.
A client describes feeling detached from their body after a car accident. This experience is most consistent with which trauma response?
Answer: Dissociation
Dissociation involves a disconnection from one's thoughts, feelings, or sense of body, and is a common response to overwhelming traumatic events.
Which crisis intervention model emphasizes assessing lethality, providing support, and restoring functioning within a brief, time-limited framework?
Answer: Roberts' Seven-Stage Crisis Intervention Model
Roberts' Seven-Stage Model provides a structured approach to crisis intervention from rapport-building through follow-up planning.
A social worker observes that a client consistently deflects emotional questions with humor. In psychodynamic terms, this is best described as:
Answer: Resistance
Resistance refers to behaviors that block therapeutic progress, often unconsciously protecting the client from anxiety-provoking material.
The CAMS (Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality) framework differs from traditional risk assessment primarily because it:
Answer: Positions the client as a co-author of their safety planning
CAMS is a therapeutic framework where the clinician and client work side-by-side to assess suicidal drivers and build a collaborative stabilization plan.
In group therapy, the therapeutic factor that involves clients recognizing they are not alone in their struggles is called:
Answer: Universality
Universality, identified by Yalom, is the therapeutic realization that others share similar problems, reducing shame and isolation.