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Strengths Perspective - correct answer ✔✔The professional lens that helps social workers
maintain a focus on the strengths and resources of clients and client system upon which to build
interventions.
Transtheoretical Model - correct answer ✔✔The process that assists practitioners in monitoring
a clients intentional change in behaviors that need to be modified for the improvement of the
biopsychosocial self.
Counseling - correct answer ✔✔In the process by which the social worker helps an individual
understand and solve problems to help them cope with mental or emotional stressors.
Therapy - correct answer ✔✔Usually involves active engagement in conversation regarding a
situation in an attempt to gain more understanding about issues such as mood, feelings,
behaviors, and ways of thinking.
motivational interviewing - correct answer ✔✔A technique in which a social worker becomes a
helper in the change process and express acceptance of the client. Mostly utilized as a way to
interact with substance-using clients as a style of counseling that can help resolve the
ambivalence that prevents clients from realizing personal goals.
Solution Focused Counseling - correct answer ✔✔A form of counseling where the social worker
focuses more on the clients present and future circumstances, as opposed to the past issues in
an attempt to assist the client in actualizing their goals.
, What is the transtheoretical model? - correct answer ✔✔A model that uses decisional balance,
self-efficacy and process of change to reduce resistance, facilitate process and prevent relapse.
decisional balance - correct answer ✔✔Pro/cons to maintain a change, the pros of change
should out-weight the cons.
self-efficacy - correct answer ✔✔Reflects the degree of confidence individuals have in
maintaining their desired behavior change in situations that often trigger relapse (Bandura's
Theory).
Process of change - correct answer ✔✔While the stages of change are useful in explaining when
changes in cognitive emotion, and behavior take place, the processes of change help to explain
how those changes occur.
What are the cognitive and experiential process when talking about process of change in the
transtheoretical model? - correct answer ✔✔Conciousness Raising (Get the Facts)
Dramatic Relief (Paying attention to feelings)
Environmental Reevaluation (notice your effect on others)
Self Reevaluation (Create a new Self-Image)
Social Liberation (Notice Public Support)
What is the behavioral process when talking about process of change in the transtheoretical
model? - correct answer ✔✔Self Liberation (Make a commitment)
Counter Conditioning (Use Substitutes)
Helping Relationships (Get Support)
Reinforcement Management (Use Rewards)
Stimulus Control (Manage your Environment)
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Strengths Perspective - correct answer ✔✔The professional lens that helps social workers
maintain a focus on the strengths and resources of clients and client system upon which to build
interventions.
Transtheoretical Model - correct answer ✔✔The process that assists practitioners in monitoring
a clients intentional change in behaviors that need to be modified for the improvement of the
biopsychosocial self.
Counseling - correct answer ✔✔In the process by which the social worker helps an individual
understand and solve problems to help them cope with mental or emotional stressors.
Therapy - correct answer ✔✔Usually involves active engagement in conversation regarding a
situation in an attempt to gain more understanding about issues such as mood, feelings,
behaviors, and ways of thinking.
motivational interviewing - correct answer ✔✔A technique in which a social worker becomes a
helper in the change process and express acceptance of the client. Mostly utilized as a way to
interact with substance-using clients as a style of counseling that can help resolve the
ambivalence that prevents clients from realizing personal goals.
Solution Focused Counseling - correct answer ✔✔A form of counseling where the social worker
focuses more on the clients present and future circumstances, as opposed to the past issues in
an attempt to assist the client in actualizing their goals.
, What is the transtheoretical model? - correct answer ✔✔A model that uses decisional balance,
self-efficacy and process of change to reduce resistance, facilitate process and prevent relapse.
decisional balance - correct answer ✔✔Pro/cons to maintain a change, the pros of change
should out-weight the cons.
self-efficacy - correct answer ✔✔Reflects the degree of confidence individuals have in
maintaining their desired behavior change in situations that often trigger relapse (Bandura's
Theory).
Process of change - correct answer ✔✔While the stages of change are useful in explaining when
changes in cognitive emotion, and behavior take place, the processes of change help to explain
how those changes occur.
What are the cognitive and experiential process when talking about process of change in the
transtheoretical model? - correct answer ✔✔Conciousness Raising (Get the Facts)
Dramatic Relief (Paying attention to feelings)
Environmental Reevaluation (notice your effect on others)
Self Reevaluation (Create a new Self-Image)
Social Liberation (Notice Public Support)
What is the behavioral process when talking about process of change in the transtheoretical
model? - correct answer ✔✔Self Liberation (Make a commitment)
Counter Conditioning (Use Substitutes)
Helping Relationships (Get Support)
Reinforcement Management (Use Rewards)
Stimulus Control (Manage your Environment)
