LMSW, LMSW STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

What to do first correct answer: Feelings- acknowledge client's feelings Assessment- collect info Refer Educate- teach skills Facilitate- use empathy, positive regard, genuineness to enable clients to make their own changes Intervene- "Therapy" Communication Skills correct answer: Non-Verbal Prompt Minimal Prompts Paraphrase Reflexive Listening Accurate Empathy Summarization Ethnic Note: Convey Acceptance with/without Approval Motivational Interviewing 5 Steps correct answer: 1. Use empathy to establish a connection 2. Note discrepancies between clients' behavior and their goals 3. Avoid Arguments- stay out of power struggles 4. Roll with Resistance- Acknowledge clients' reluctance to change 5. Support Self-Efficacy- Acknowledge that clients are in charge of their own lives Contact Phase: Problem Identification and Definition correct answer: -Problem as the client sees it -Problem as defined by significant systems with which the client system is in interaction -Problem as the worker sees it -Problem-for-work (place of beginning together) Abreaction correct answer: Psychoanalytic term for reliving an experience in order to purge it's emotional distress Aichmophobia correct answer: A specific phobia that focuses on the fear of sharp objects Amenorrhea correct answer: Most commonly diagnosed when a woman misses three or more periods in a row. Anamnesis correct answer: Remembering past events. A clients medical or psychiatric history Process of memory Antecedent Behavior correct answer: Stimulus that elicits a behavior. What happens just prior to the behavior you are observing Classical Conditioning correct answer: A form of learning in which existing responses are attached to new stimuli by paring those stimuli with those that naturally elicit the response. Also can be thought of as stimulus response in that the same as respondent stimulus elicits a response