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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 Reaction Formation Reduces anxiety by taking up the opposite feelings, impulses or behaviors. Systematic Desensitization anxiety-producing stimulus is paired with relaxing response so that eventually anxiety-producing stimulus produces a relaxation response. Cognitive Approach Human functioning is seen as a product of reciprocal interaction between personal and environmental variables. Emphasis is placed on cognitive skills from problem-solving. Partialization Work with the client to break the problem into manageable sub-goals. Self-determination Determination of one's own fate or course of action without compulsion- never develop the plan, the contract, intervention, plan or make goals, without the input of client with the client. Safety Net Approach the idea that if some social service programs are eliminated through economic cutbacks, benefits, and programs of last resort will remain for individuals or families that cannot find needed resources on their own. Residual Welfare Position The idea that the public should provide social services and public assistance only to those people who, because of unusual circumstances are unable to receive help through family or the normal social structure and marketplace. Chi Square test of statistical significance that measures differences between observed and expected frequencies. Gerontology the multidisciplinary study of the biological, psychological, and social aspects of aging. Geriatrics a branch of the medical profession that specializes in the prevention and treatment of disease and old age.