ASWB licensing exam
A in SOAP - ANS-Assessment - pull together the S and O for a short assessment
administration of practical services - ANS-method of treatment in which a social worker
provides assistance to a client by helping that client choose and use social resources
that are paid for by the community like legal aid, foster homes, medical care
Asceticism - ANS-characterized by rigor and self‐denial. *An adult uses this defense
mechanism when she refuses to eat or sleep until a major work project is complete.
aversion therapy - ANS-any treatment aimed at reducing the attractiveness of a
stimulus or a behavior by repeated or pairing of it with an aversive stimulus.
Behavioral Theory - ANS-suggests that personality is a result of interactions between
the individual and the environment. Theorists study observable and measurable
behaviors, rejecting theories that take internal thoughts and feelings into account. These
theories represent the systematic application of principles of learning to the analysis and
treatment of behaviors. Behaviors determine feelings. Thus, changing behaviors will
also change or eliminate undesired feelings. There are 2 fundamental classes of
behavior: respondent (involuntary) and operant (voluntary).
biofeedback - ANS-behavior training program that teaches a person how to control
certain functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, temp and muscular tension.
Bowenian family therapy - ANS-Bowenian-trained social worker is interested in
improving the intergenerational transmission process. The focus within this approach is
consistent whether a social worker is working with an individual, couple, or the entire
family. It assumes that improving on overall functioning will ultimately reduce a family
members symptomatology. It has eight major theoretical constructs.
Closed system - ANS-Uses up its energy and dies
cognitive dissonance - ANS-arises when a person has to choose between two
contradictory attitudes and beliefs. The most dissonance arises when two options are
equally attractive
Cognitive Theory - ANS-Piaget- these stages address the acquisition of knowledge and
how humans come to gradually acquire it.
, 1. Sensorimotor- 0-2 years
2. Preoperational 2-7 years
3. Concrete operations 7-11 years
4. Formal Operations 11-maturity
Community based decision making - ANS-Orientation stage
Conflict stage
Emergence stage
Reinforcement stage
concordance rates - ANS-refer to the percentage of instances in which both twins show
a particular trait when it is present in one twin.
congruence - ANS-matching of awareness, experience, and communication
crystallized intelligence - ANS-the collection of skills that depend on accumulated
knowledge and experience, good judgement, and mastery of social conventions
cultural identity - ANS-the identity of a group or culture of an individual who is influenced
by his or her self-identification with that group or culture.
defense mechanisms - ANS-behaviors that protect people from anxiety. Automatic,
involuntary, usually unconscious psychological activities. not to be confused with coping
mechanisms which are voluntary.
Denial - ANS-distorts reality and does not acknowledge emotion
Differential Diagnosis - ANS-A systematic diagnostic method used to identify the
presence of an entity where multiple alternatives are possible
Differentiation - ANS-Becoming specialized in structure and function
Differentiation (Bowenian) - ANS-the core concept of this approach. The more
differentiated, the more a client can be an individual while in emotional contact with the
family. Allows the client to think through a situation without being drawn to act by either
internal or external emotional pressures.
Displacement - ANS-a defense mechanism in which affect is transferred from one object
to another.
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