MSW Exam Study Guide with Complete
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Structural family theory - Answer-family roles and relational organizations
strategic family theory - Answer-reduce symptoms through altering styles of feedback that is thought
to maintain the problem.
Bowenian therapy - Answer-attempts to improve d...
emergence - Answer✔✔-path forward that emerges from conflict
reinforcement - Answer✔✔-final decision making stage of the process and its justification by group
social policy analysis - Answer✔✔-1st- verify, define, and detail the problem,
2nd- establish evaluation criteria,
3rd- identify alternative policies,
4th- evaluate alternative policies
5th- distinguish between alternative policies,
6th- monitor the implemented policy.
advantages of empathic communication - Answer✔✔-basic to assisting clients in motivational change. it
encourages clients to greater long-term change, increases motivation and lowers the innate resistance to
change found in most clients.
systems theory - Answer✔✔-can be used in indirect and direct practices
indirect practices - Answer✔✔-social work activities such as administration, research, policy
development.
direct practices - Answer✔✔-structural family therapy, crisis theory and intervention and behaviroal
theory are only used in direct practices when working directly with individual clients or families.
enactment - Answer✔✔-acting out dysfunctional patterns of behaviors so that therapist can intervene
and suggest more positive interactions to use outside of therapy
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