LSW Exam 2023 with 100% correct answers

Reframing a technique used by many family therapists to help families understand a symptom or pattern of behavior by seeing it in a different context. For example, a family might see a child who is being disrespectful or detached from the family. By reframing the problem we can look at the entire family as a family problem or a response that the child is independent. Social Work Obligation with Suicide Social worker must report if they believe a person will seriously harm themselves or others. Empathy Understanding of another's feelings the ability to identify with and understand somebody else's feelings or difficulties. It is important to convey to the client that you understand how the feel. ethics of social work Service, Social justice, integrity, competence, dignity and worth of a person, importance of human relationships. Freud's Stages Oral (0-18 months) Anal (18-36) Phallic (3-6 years) Latency (6-11 years) Genital (11-19 years) Double-bind a conflict created when a person receives contradictory messages in an important relationship and cannot leave or comment on the relationship. Institutional Discrimination Prejudicial treatment in organizations based on official policies, overt behaviors, or behavior that may be covert by approved by those in power. Institutional Racism Unequal outcomes for people of color, beliefs that someone of a different race is inferior. Discrimination The prejudicial and negative treatment of people based on identifiable characteristics such as race, gender, or ethnicity. 2) the process of distinguishing two objects from one another. Ethnocentrism an orientation or set of beliefs that one's own culture, racial, or ethnic group, or nations inherently superior to others. Racism stereotyping and generalizing about people, usually negatively, because of their race, commonly a basis of discrimination. Remember racism is an ideology. Goal of case management the primary goal of case management is to optimize client functioning by providing quality services in the most efficient and effector manor to individuals with multiple complex needs. Projection taking our own unacceptable qualities, feelings and ascribing them to other people. Intellectualization reduction of anxiety by thinking about events in a cold, clinical way to avoid emotions. Client Empowerment help client to assume personal responsbility Most common suicide methods guns- 60 percent of all suicides (80 percent by white males) Men-hanging Women- self-poisoning including overdose men more lethal female more often