LSW COMBINED SET QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
Strategic Family Therapy - Answer-a social worker initiates what happens during
therapy, designs a specific
approach for each person's presenting problem, and takes responsibility for directly
influencing
people.
Therapy focuses on problem resolution by altering the feedback cycle or loop that
maintains the
symptomatic behavior. The social worker's task is to formulate the problem in solvable,
behavioral
terms and to design an intervention plan to change the dysfunctional family pattern.
Differentiation - Answer-is the core concept of this approach. The more differentiated,
the more a client
can be an individual while in emotional contact with the family. This allows a client to
think through a
situation without being drawn to act by either internal or external emotional pressures
Societal regression (Bowenian Family Therapy) - Answer-in contrast to progression, is
manifested by problems such as the depletion
of natural resources. Bowen's theory can be used to explain societal anxieties and
social problems,
because Bowen viewed society as a family—an emotional system complete with its own
multigenerational transmission, chronic anxiety, emotional triangles, cutoffs, projection
processes,
and fusion/differentiation struggles.
Psychodrama - Answer-is a treatment approach in which roles are enacted in a group
context. Members of
the group re-create their problems and devote themselves to the role dilemmas of each
member.
group think - Answer-is when a group makes faulty decisions because of group
pressures. Groups affected by
by this ignore alternatives and tend to take irrational actions that dehumanize other
groups. A
group is especially vulnerable to group-think when its members are similar in
background, when the
,group is insulated from outside opinions, and when there are no clear rules for decision
making.
conscious - Answer-contains all the information that a client is paying attention to at any
given time
Preconcious - Answer-level of consciousness outside of awareness, contains memories
and feelings that can be brought into the conciousness
unconscious - Answer-according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts,
wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information
processing of which we are unaware.
what is the first stage in Freuds psychosexual development - Answer-Oral: birth to 12
months
sources of pleasure: sucking, biting, chewing
results of fixation: smoking, over eating, dependence on others
what is the second stage in freuds psychosocial development - Answer-anal: age 2
when kid is being trained
sources of pleasure: bowel movements
results of fixation: anally retentive person or an explosive person
what is freuds 3rd stage in psychosexual development - Answer-Phallic: age 3-5
sources of pleasure: genitals
results of fixation: guilt or anxiety about sex
Freuds 4th stage in psychosexual development - Answer-Latency: age five to puberty
sources of pleasure: sexuality is dormant during this time
no fixations at this stage
Freud's 5th Stage of Psychosexual Development - Answer-Genital: Begins at puberty
sources of pleasure: the genitals, sexual urges return, no fixations at this stage
In vivo desensitization - Answer-Pairing and movement through a hierarchy of anxiety,
from least
to most anxiety provoking situations; takes place in "real" setting.
Modeling - Answer-Method of instruction that involves an individual (the model)
demonstrating
the behavior to be acquired by a client.
Rational emotive therapy (RET) - Answer-A cognitively oriented therapy in which a
social
worker seeks to change a client's irrational beliefs by argument, persuasion, and
rational
,reevaluation and by teaching a client to counter self-defeating thinking with new,
nondistressing self-statements
systematic desensitization - Answer-An anxiety-inhibiting response cannot occur at the
same
time as the anxiety response. Anxiety-producing stimulus is paired with relaxation
producing response so that eventually an anxiety-producing stimulus produces a
relaxation response. At each step a client's reaction of fear or dread is overcome by
pleasant feelings engendered as the new behavior is reinforced by receiving a reward.
The reward could be a compliment, a gift, or relaxation.
token economy - Answer-A client receives tokens as reinforcement for performing
specified
behaviors. The tokens function as currency within the environment and can be
exchanged
for desired goods, services, or privileges.
coercive power - Answer-power from control of punishment
ex: Threats and punishment. This power is used when you imply or threaten that
someone will be fired, demoted or denied privileges. While your position may allow you
to do this, though, it doesn't mean that you have the will or the justification to do so.
reward power - Answer-power from control of rewards. This power is difficult because
sometimes the below examples are hard to promise.
ex: raises, promotions, desirable assignments, training opportunities, and simple
compliments
expert power - Answer-power from superior ability or knowledge
ex: knowledge and skills that enable you to understand a situation, suggest solutions,
use solid judgment, and generally outperform others, people will listen to you, trust you,
and respect what you say.
referent power - Answer-power from having charisma or identification with others who
have power
ex: one person liking and respecting another, and identifying with her in some way.
Celebrities have this type of power, which is why they can influence everything from
what people buy to which politician they elect.
legitimate power - Answer-power from having legitimate authority. This type of power,
however, can be unpredictable and unstable. If you lose the title or position, your power
can instantly disappear, because people were influenced by the position you held rather
than by you.
, ex: A president, prime minister or monarch, CEO, religious minister, or a fire chief.
Electoral mandates, social hierarchies, cultural norms, and organizational structure all
provide the basis for this type of power
informational power - Answer-power derived from control over information
ex: Having access to confidential financial reports, being aware of who's due to be laid
off, and knowing where your team is going for its annual "away day" This type of power
can be used to harm or help people
Conversion defense mechanism - Answer-Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a
disturbance of body function usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (ex:pain,
deafness, blindness,paralysis, convulsions)
Devaluation - Answer-Defense mechanism in which a person attributes excessively
negative qualities to self or others
Dissociation - Answer-A process that enables a person to split mental functions in a
manner that allows themselves to Express forbidden or unconscious impulses without
taking responsibility for the action, either because they are unable to remember the
disowned behavior or because it is not experienced as their own.
white american - Answer-Family: parents with young children; divorce common;
personal desires put over family;
parents try to be friends with their children; avoid physical punishment
Communication: language—American Standard English; communication can be long-
winded
and impersonal
Spirituality: religion is a private affair, but mainly Protestant and Bible-based
Values: capitalism (i.e., the future is what you make it); poverty is a moral failing and
wealth is
held in high esteem; physical beauty is valued with white skin, blond hair, and thin body
being
the ideal; sports are an important part of life (baseball, American football, basketball);
American Indian/Alaska Native - Answer-complex family organizations that include
relatives without blood ties; strong kinship
bonds (multigenerational, extended families); group takes preference over individual;
husband
and wife show a tendency to communicate more with their gender group than with each
other;
harmony within the group is very important; common sharing of material goods; group
decision making
Communication: indirectness; being still and quiet; comfortable with silence; value
listening
WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
Strategic Family Therapy - Answer-a social worker initiates what happens during
therapy, designs a specific
approach for each person's presenting problem, and takes responsibility for directly
influencing
people.
Therapy focuses on problem resolution by altering the feedback cycle or loop that
maintains the
symptomatic behavior. The social worker's task is to formulate the problem in solvable,
behavioral
terms and to design an intervention plan to change the dysfunctional family pattern.
Differentiation - Answer-is the core concept of this approach. The more differentiated,
the more a client
can be an individual while in emotional contact with the family. This allows a client to
think through a
situation without being drawn to act by either internal or external emotional pressures
Societal regression (Bowenian Family Therapy) - Answer-in contrast to progression, is
manifested by problems such as the depletion
of natural resources. Bowen's theory can be used to explain societal anxieties and
social problems,
because Bowen viewed society as a family—an emotional system complete with its own
multigenerational transmission, chronic anxiety, emotional triangles, cutoffs, projection
processes,
and fusion/differentiation struggles.
Psychodrama - Answer-is a treatment approach in which roles are enacted in a group
context. Members of
the group re-create their problems and devote themselves to the role dilemmas of each
member.
group think - Answer-is when a group makes faulty decisions because of group
pressures. Groups affected by
by this ignore alternatives and tend to take irrational actions that dehumanize other
groups. A
group is especially vulnerable to group-think when its members are similar in
background, when the
,group is insulated from outside opinions, and when there are no clear rules for decision
making.
conscious - Answer-contains all the information that a client is paying attention to at any
given time
Preconcious - Answer-level of consciousness outside of awareness, contains memories
and feelings that can be brought into the conciousness
unconscious - Answer-according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts,
wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information
processing of which we are unaware.
what is the first stage in Freuds psychosexual development - Answer-Oral: birth to 12
months
sources of pleasure: sucking, biting, chewing
results of fixation: smoking, over eating, dependence on others
what is the second stage in freuds psychosocial development - Answer-anal: age 2
when kid is being trained
sources of pleasure: bowel movements
results of fixation: anally retentive person or an explosive person
what is freuds 3rd stage in psychosexual development - Answer-Phallic: age 3-5
sources of pleasure: genitals
results of fixation: guilt or anxiety about sex
Freuds 4th stage in psychosexual development - Answer-Latency: age five to puberty
sources of pleasure: sexuality is dormant during this time
no fixations at this stage
Freud's 5th Stage of Psychosexual Development - Answer-Genital: Begins at puberty
sources of pleasure: the genitals, sexual urges return, no fixations at this stage
In vivo desensitization - Answer-Pairing and movement through a hierarchy of anxiety,
from least
to most anxiety provoking situations; takes place in "real" setting.
Modeling - Answer-Method of instruction that involves an individual (the model)
demonstrating
the behavior to be acquired by a client.
Rational emotive therapy (RET) - Answer-A cognitively oriented therapy in which a
social
worker seeks to change a client's irrational beliefs by argument, persuasion, and
rational
,reevaluation and by teaching a client to counter self-defeating thinking with new,
nondistressing self-statements
systematic desensitization - Answer-An anxiety-inhibiting response cannot occur at the
same
time as the anxiety response. Anxiety-producing stimulus is paired with relaxation
producing response so that eventually an anxiety-producing stimulus produces a
relaxation response. At each step a client's reaction of fear or dread is overcome by
pleasant feelings engendered as the new behavior is reinforced by receiving a reward.
The reward could be a compliment, a gift, or relaxation.
token economy - Answer-A client receives tokens as reinforcement for performing
specified
behaviors. The tokens function as currency within the environment and can be
exchanged
for desired goods, services, or privileges.
coercive power - Answer-power from control of punishment
ex: Threats and punishment. This power is used when you imply or threaten that
someone will be fired, demoted or denied privileges. While your position may allow you
to do this, though, it doesn't mean that you have the will or the justification to do so.
reward power - Answer-power from control of rewards. This power is difficult because
sometimes the below examples are hard to promise.
ex: raises, promotions, desirable assignments, training opportunities, and simple
compliments
expert power - Answer-power from superior ability or knowledge
ex: knowledge and skills that enable you to understand a situation, suggest solutions,
use solid judgment, and generally outperform others, people will listen to you, trust you,
and respect what you say.
referent power - Answer-power from having charisma or identification with others who
have power
ex: one person liking and respecting another, and identifying with her in some way.
Celebrities have this type of power, which is why they can influence everything from
what people buy to which politician they elect.
legitimate power - Answer-power from having legitimate authority. This type of power,
however, can be unpredictable and unstable. If you lose the title or position, your power
can instantly disappear, because people were influenced by the position you held rather
than by you.
, ex: A president, prime minister or monarch, CEO, religious minister, or a fire chief.
Electoral mandates, social hierarchies, cultural norms, and organizational structure all
provide the basis for this type of power
informational power - Answer-power derived from control over information
ex: Having access to confidential financial reports, being aware of who's due to be laid
off, and knowing where your team is going for its annual "away day" This type of power
can be used to harm or help people
Conversion defense mechanism - Answer-Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a
disturbance of body function usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (ex:pain,
deafness, blindness,paralysis, convulsions)
Devaluation - Answer-Defense mechanism in which a person attributes excessively
negative qualities to self or others
Dissociation - Answer-A process that enables a person to split mental functions in a
manner that allows themselves to Express forbidden or unconscious impulses without
taking responsibility for the action, either because they are unable to remember the
disowned behavior or because it is not experienced as their own.
white american - Answer-Family: parents with young children; divorce common;
personal desires put over family;
parents try to be friends with their children; avoid physical punishment
Communication: language—American Standard English; communication can be long-
winded
and impersonal
Spirituality: religion is a private affair, but mainly Protestant and Bible-based
Values: capitalism (i.e., the future is what you make it); poverty is a moral failing and
wealth is
held in high esteem; physical beauty is valued with white skin, blond hair, and thin body
being
the ideal; sports are an important part of life (baseball, American football, basketball);
American Indian/Alaska Native - Answer-complex family organizations that include
relatives without blood ties; strong kinship
bonds (multigenerational, extended families); group takes preference over individual;
husband
and wife show a tendency to communicate more with their gender group than with each
other;
harmony within the group is very important; common sharing of material goods; group
decision making
Communication: indirectness; being still and quiet; comfortable with silence; value
listening
