Maslow's hierarchy of needs - ✔✔Clients are motivated to meet certain needs, when one is
filled they seek the next one. (physiological, safety, social, esteem, self-actualization)
Physiological needs - ✔✔Maintain the physical organism. Biological needs such as
food/water/oxygen/ temperature.
Safety needs - ✔✔Need to feel safe from harm/danger/threat.
Social needs - ✔✔Friendship, intimacy, affection, and love are needed.
Esteem needs - ✔✔Need of a stable, firmly based level of self respect and respect from
others.
Self-actualization - ✔✔Ongoing process of need to be oneself, act consistently with whom
one is.
Humanistic approach - ✔✔clients have the capacity to grow, change, and adapt.
Strength - ✔✔Any ability that helps and individual to confront and deal with a stressful life
situation and to grow from it.
Strengths perspective - ✔✔Focuses on understanding clients on the basis of their strengths
and resources and mobilizing the resources to improve their situations.
, Defense mechanisms - ✔✔Behaviors that protect people from anxiety. Automatic,
involuntary, usually unconscious psychological activities to exclude unacceptable thoughts,
urges, threats, and impulses form awareness for fear of disapproval, punishment, or other
negative outcomes. (NOT coping mechanisms-voluntary)
Examples of defense mechanisms - ✔✔Turning against self, Splitting, repression... (SEE PAGE
57)
Erikson - ✔✔Psychosocial model (8 stages)
Group work - ✔✔Method of social work that helps individuals enhance their social
functioning as well as cope with their problems. Individuals help each other change/learn social
roles, social worker helps change environment/behavior.
Individual self-actualization occurs when: - ✔✔Release of feelings that block social
performance, support from others, reappraisal of self.
Psychodrama - ✔✔Treatment approach in which roles are enacted in a group context
Stages of group development - ✔✔Preaffiliation (forming), Power and Control (storming),
Intimacy (norming), Differentiation (performing), Termination (adjourning).
Individuals to keep out of group work - ✔✔Clients in crisis, suicidal, compulsive, needs
attentjion, psychotic, paranoid.
Groupthink - ✔✔Group makes faulty decisions because of group pressure.
Group polarization - ✔✔Discussion strengthens a dominant point of view and results in a
shift to a more extreme position than any of the members would adopt on their own.
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