Orientation to Addiction Studies Final Review – Flashcards
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Providing services for people who need ongoing support of some kind best describe the role of
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caregiver
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The criterion used by clients and workers to make choices is
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valuing
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An individual, a small group, or a geographic area are examples of
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clients
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All but ONE of the following activities demonstrates commitment to the client:
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helping outside area of expertise
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Awareness and sensitivity are keys to working with
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clients from other cultures
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The who, what, where, when, and why of a message is the
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cognitive component
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A strategy or technique that helps the client become more comfortable with the setting and the helper is
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icebreakers
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The key to responding to a client's message is for the helper to
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know his or her intent before speaking
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Making recommendations for expenditures to support client needs is an activity of the
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Planner
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Resolution-focused brief therapy includes ALL but one of the following stages
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identifying client weaknesses
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Self-determination is a critical value because
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the client needs to assume responsibility
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Which of the following is the best way of eliciting information about a client's educational history?
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Let's talk about your school experiences.
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Providing direct service to clients, one of three areas of responsibility for human service professionals, is illustrated by which roles?
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behavior changer, caregiver, educator
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A typical job responsibility for the human service professional is all but ONE of the following:
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researching community needs
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Missing appointments, rejecting the helper and inattentiveness are examples of
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resistance.
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"What is helpful?" and "How can the needs of the client be met?" are the two questions that guide
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helping.
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To think through issues of confidentiality, the beginning human service professional can use all EXCEPT
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client code of ethics
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When a certain act is being evaluated to determine its ethical nature, one model would have the evaluators ask whether the professional acted with
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autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.
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The helper "experiences conflict in determining an appropriate standard of conduct regarding obligations to two or more constituencies" in which of the following situations?
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ethical dilemmas
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The lens that we use to evaluate the moral rightness of a behavior is often
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determined by the outcome.
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The informal sharing of information that occurs in an agency or organizational setting among co-workers or treatment team members and supervisors is referred to as
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relative confidentiality
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What type of communication is a right granted to a group of professionals by state law-making bodies?
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privileged
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Statements in codes of ethics about academic training and supervised experience refer to
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competence
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A code of ethics includes all but
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instructions for all ethical dilemmas
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The ethical decision making model includes all but one of the following steps
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examine evidence
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The worker's assurance that information the client divulges will remain between the two of them reflects a commitment to
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confidentiality
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Individuals who are motivated primarily by emotions are often
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emotionally unstable
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Most people will find themselves caught in a tug-of-war between their ethical standards and their
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emotional desires
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Many times an individual acts in a way that is later perceived to be unethical, when at the time they were committing the act they may have believed they were acting in a very ethical manner, but were forced to choose among
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competing values.
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Numerous professions espouse basic ethical principles, which serve as a foundation for their business
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practices and standards.
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Which of the following assists in the establishment of a professional identity for members of a profession?
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a code of ethics
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Tarasoff vs Regents of the University of California underscores the responsibility of the helping professional to
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warn others of client's intended harm
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Individuals in the United States must be aware of the international dimension of human services because
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over ¾ of the world's population growth is less developed countries.
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The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 was passed to
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provide outpatient prescription drug benefits for individuals on Medicare
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The settlement house movement is best known for its belief that
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the best way to achieve reform was through social engineering
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All of the following are features of the Elizabethan Poor Law EXCEPT
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inhumane treatment for those in institutions
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Human services flourished under all but ONE of the following presidents
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Reagan
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By the 1850s, special institutions for the blind, the mentally ill, criminals, and other groups were established because of the belief that
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reform, rehabilitation, and education were possible
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Human service professionals can improve their relationship to managed care by
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contracting with managed care to provide services.
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Human service delivery in the rural areas has increased
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to serve the increased relocation of people to rural areas
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The beginnings of the human service movement can be found in the impact of all EXCEPT
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welfare reform
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President Carter involved five departments in reorganizing the federal executive branch to include two new departments
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Health and Human Services and Education
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Reading, traveling, television, and interacting with others are ways to learn about:
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diversity
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Technology is changing human services in ONE of the following ways:
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creatively using technology to serve professionals and clients
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Relief for the poor during the Middle Ages was the responsibility of each of the following except?
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the church
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Characteristics of wraparound services include all but
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technology
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Reasons that racial and ethnic minorities bear a greater burden from unmet mental health needs include all but
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mental health problems.
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Healthy People is a national public health effort to improve the health of all people by
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defining a prevention agenda.
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Moving clients to self-sufficiency means all of the following EXCEPT:
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increase in family harmony
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The relationship the human service professional has with other professionals is described in all but ONE of the following statements:
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The human service worker is the mental health specialist.
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The following characteristics or themes are part of the model of human services EXCEPT:
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institutionalization
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Integrated services reflect work with the client that is
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Coordinated
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Treatment in the medical model includes all EXCEPT:
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societal control
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The human service professional needs to develop networks primarily to
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link clients to services
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The goal of case management is
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to provide short term or long term care when needed
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All of the following are characteristics of the public health model EXCEPT:
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focuses on the interaction between the individual and the environment
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Among the challenges facing those who practice the medical model today are cure versus control, the development of new drugs, and
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the control of medical services.
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A new way that human service agencies relate to each other is by
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combining resources to serve clients better
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Information about models of service delivery is important to human service professionals because
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they are likely to be working with professionals who practice other models.
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Three basic models of service delivery include traditional psychiatry, the public health approach, and the
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human service model.
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Rehabilitation is relevant when
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a client is injured in an automobile accident
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Social Care
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Social care in England is defined as the provision of social work, personal care, protection or social support services to children or adults in need or at risk, or adults with needs arising from illness, disability, old age or poverty.
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Interdisiplinary nature of Social Workers
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Human services is an interdisciplinary discipline with the objective of meeting human needs through an applied knowledge base, focusing on prevention as well as remediation of problems, and maintaining a commitment to improving the overall quality of life of service populations. The process involves the study of social technologies (practice methods, models, and theories), service technologies (programs, organizations, and systems), and scientific innovations that are designed to ameliorate problems and enhance the quality of life of individuals, families and communities to improve the delivery of service with better coordination, accessibility and accountability.[1] The mission of human services is to promote a practice that involves simultaneously working at all levels of society (whole-person approach) in the process of promoting the autonomy of individuals or groups,making informal or formal human services systems more efficient and effective, and advocating for positive social change within society.
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Evidence based practice
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EBP is the integration of clinical expertise, patient values, and the best research evidence into the decision making process for patient care.
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Ethical standards
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In their simplest form, ethics are the moral standards you rely on when you make a decision. They define what's right and wrong, and outline the kind of behavior that businesses should not engage in. For responsible decision making in a business environment, a good set of ethics is key.
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historical reasons for mental illness
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supernatural
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Elizabethan Poor Laws
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The Poor Relief Act 1601 (43 Eliz 1 c 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England. The Act for the Relief of the Poor 1601, popularly known as the "Elizabethan Poor Law", "43rd Elizabeth" or the "Old Poor Law" was passed in 1601 and created a national poor law system for England and Wales.
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Laissez faire economics
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laissez-faire [(les-ay-fair, lay-zay-fair)] French for "Let (people) do (as they choose)." It describes a system or point of view that opposes regulation or interference by the government in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary to allow the free enterprise system to operate according to its own laws.
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Social Darwinism
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the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.
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"Less elgibility"
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Less eligibility was a British government policy passed into law in the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. It stated that conditions in workhouses had to be worse than conditions available outside so that there was a deterrence to claiming poor relief.
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Social reform
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A reform movement is a kind of social movement that aims to make gradual change, or change in certain aspects of society, rather than rapid or fundamental changes. A reform movement is distinguished from more radical social movements such as revolutionary movements.
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Immigration
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the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
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migration
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movement from one part of something to another.
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Social security act of 1935
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DEFINITION of 'Social Security Act' A law enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people.
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Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health
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The Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health was created in 1955 by the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association
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National Institute of Mental Health
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National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., NIMH's mission is to "provide national leadership dedicated to understanding, treating, and preventing mental illnesses through basic research on the brain and behavior, and through clinical, epidemiological, and services
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Managed care
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a system of health care in which patients agree to visit only certain doctors and hospitals, and in which the cost of treatment is monitored by a managing company.
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Case management
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Case management is a collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation, care coordination, evaluation, and advocacy for options and services to meet an individual's and family's comprehensive health needs through communication and available resources to promote quality, cost-effective outcomes.
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Human service organizations
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The field of Human Services is broadly defined, uniquely approaching the objective of meeting human needs through an interdisciplinary knowledge base, focusing on prevention as well as remediation of problems, and maintaining a commitment to improving the overall quality of life of service populations.
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Results of combat duty
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is a term used within the military to describe acute behavioral disorganization seen by medical personnel as a direct result of the trauma of war
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Developmental stage
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Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, as articulated by Erik Erikson, is a psychoanalytic theory which identifies eight stages through which a healthily developing human should pass from infancy to late adulthood. In each stage, the person confronts, and hopefully masters, new challenges.
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Identity stage
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Identity Versus Confusion. ... Identity versus role confusion is the fifth stage of psychosocial development
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Generativity Stage
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In this stage generativity refers to the adult's ability to care for anotherperson.
