BSW Exam Vocab part 2
Social Workers - correct answer Who focuses on assisting clients to identify
problems and areas of strength, as well as increasing problem-solving strategies.
- should also make sure that the needs are based on an unbiased assessment and client wishes. They
should not be driven by funding and time constraints.
problem-solving process - correct answer What process is it essential that
social workers view clients as experts in their lives?
- Social workers should listen carefully for, and work hard to respect, the directions in which clients want
to go with their lives (their goals) and the words they use to express these directions.
clients - correct answer Who should be asked what they would like to see
changed in their lives and clients' definitions of problems should be accepted?
Also asked what will be different in their lives when their problems are solved?
should be asked about the paths that they would like to take to make desired changes?
clients - correct answer Whose perceptions should be respected and clients'
inner resources (strengths) should be maximized as part of treatment?
Electrodes - correct answer They are also called leads) What are small devices
that are attached to wires and carry the electrical energy of the brain to a machine for reading
- Clients are then exposed to a variety of external stimuli—including bright or flashing light, noise, or
certain drugs—or are asked to open and close their eyes or to change breathing patterns.
- transmit the resulting changes in brain wave patterns.
A very low electrical current is sent through the electrodes and the baseline brain energy is recorded.
- Since movement and nervousness can change brain wave patterns, clients usually recline in a chair or
on a bed during the test, which takes up to an hour.
A series of cup-like electrodes - correct answer What are attached to the
scalp, either with a special conducting paste or with extremely fine needles?
,at least 3 hours - correct answer Testing for certain disorders requires
performing an EEG during sleep, How many hour would it take to complete?
Hallucinations - correct answer What are a common symptom of
Schizophrenia, but they can also be caused by drug abuse or excessive alcohol intake, fever,
bereavement, depression, or dementia?
halluncinations - correct answer What has various forms with some involving
voices that can be heard and others involving nonexistent smells or tastes
Auditory hallucinations - correct answer the most common form of
hallucination in those with Schizophrenia and refer to the perception of nonexistent sounds.
Visual hallucinations - correct answer when something is seen that does not
exist.
Olfactory hallucinations - correct answer involves smelling odors that do not
exist; these odors are usually unpleasant, such as vomit, urine, feces, smoke, or rotting flesh.
Tactile hallucinations - correct answer refers to when a client senses that he or
she is being touched when he or she is not being touched.
Psychological or emotional abuse - correct answer What is sustained,
repetitive, and inappropriate behavior aimed at threatening, isolating, discrediting, belittling, teasing,
humiliating, bullying, confusing, and/or ignoring?
- can be seen in constant criticism, belittling, teasing, ignoring or withholding of praise or affection, and
placing excessive or unreasonable demands, including expectations above what is appropriate.
- It can impact intelligence, memory, recognition, perception, attention, imagination, and moral
development. Individuals who have been psychologically abused are likely to be fearful, withdrawn,
and/or resentful, distressed, and despairing.
psychological or emotional abuse - correct answer They are likely to feel
unloved, worthless, and unwanted, or only valued in meeting another's needs. Those victims of
,____________________________________ often avoid eye contact and experience deep loneliness,
anxiety, and/or despair; have a flat and superficial way of relating, with little empathy toward others;
have a lowered capacity to engage appropriately with others; engage in bullying, disruptive, or
aggressive behaviors toward others; and/or engage in self-harming and/or self-destructive behaviors
(i.e., cutting, physical aggression, reckless behavior showing a disregard for self and safety, drug taking).
Comorbidity - correct answer What occurs when a client has conditions or
diagnoses which occur simultaneously. For example, a client may possess a physical illness and mental
health problem. In addition, a client would be considered to have comorbid conditions if he or she had
two or more distinct mental health diagnoses.
i.e. a client has two simultaneous issues—mental health and Substance Use Disorders—making them
comorbid.
Intellectual Disability (Intellectual Developmental Disorder) - correct answer
formerly known as Mental Retardation, includes intellectual deficits and difficulty functioning in daily life
in areas such as communication, self-care, housekeeping, social/interpersonal skills, self-direction,
academics, work, leisure, health, and safety. Its onset is during the developmental period. Intellectual
disability has many different etiologies.
70 or below. - correct answer rior to the publication of DSM-5 in 2013,
diagnostic criteria for Mental Retardation required an IQ score of what?
deemphasized - correct answer In the DSM-5, What happens to IQ scores?
There is no longer a cutoff score or threshold per se for establishing a diagnosis.
scaled IQ scores - correct answer What are evaluated in context with a client's
entire clinical picture?
Alzheimer's disease - correct answer Doctors cannot definitively diagnose
____________________ until after death, as the only truly definitive test for Alzheimer's is a brain
biopsy, which is almost never done.
brain biopsy - correct answer What are too invasive and risky, Alzheimer's
usually gets diagnosed by systematically ruling out other common possibilities for the symptoms.
, Alzheimer's - correct answer What is one of the most common causes of
confusion in older adults, but not the only cause. Confusion is never a typical part of aging?
Confusion and memory problems - correct answer can stem from a host of
things, including small strokes (so small the person may not show other signs of stroke), drug
interactions or side effects, Parkinson's, thyroid problems, brain tumors, pernicious anemia, depression,
low oxygen levels, high fluid pressures in the brain, and others.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - correct answer What implies that clients are
motivated to meet certain needs and when one need is fulfilled, a client seeks to fulfill the next one, and
so on?
- can be a useful tool for helping decide in what order problems should be addressed.
- Those related to basic well-being or safety must be considered before those related to socialization
and happiness
Maslow - correct answer Who saw these needs as comprising a five-stage
model with deficiency needs—physiological, safety, social, and esteem—coming before the growth need
of self-actualization?
family and friends - correct answer who may also provide important
information about the length or severity of issues or problems. It may also provide contextual or
background information that a client may not know?
Genogram - correct answer a family diagram that can be thought of as an
elaboration of a family tree.
provide a way of mapping family patterns and relationships.
report information on family structures.
can also be used to better understand their clients' medical and genetic histories.
genogram - correct answer What are widely used by social workers as a tool
to map family relations, giving both social workers and clients an overview of family issues,
relationships, and patterns?
