Intervention and Treatment Planning Flashcards
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A social worker using a strengths-based perspective in treatment planning would most likely:
Answer: Build interventions around the client's existing resources and capacities
Strengths-based practice centers treatment planning on identifying and mobilizing the client's existing strengths, resources, and natural supports rather than pathology.
A client in the contemplation stage of change is best supported by which type of intervention?
Answer: Exploring ambivalence and increasing discrepancy between current behavior and goals
Clients in contemplation are aware of a problem but ambivalent; exploring ambivalence and raising discrepancy is the appropriate stage-matched intervention.
A social worker includes 'client will attend three community support group meetings per month' in a treatment plan. This goal best addresses which domain?
Answer: Social support and community integration
Community support group attendance directly targets building social support networks and community integration as part of a holistic treatment approach.
Which of the following is the FIRST step in a structured crisis intervention model such as Roberts' Seven-Stage model?
Answer: Assess lethality and safety
Roberts' Seven-Stage model begins with assessing lethality, imminent danger, and safety needs before building rapport or exploring emotions.
A social worker is using Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) with a rape survivor. A core component of this intervention is:
Answer: Identifying and challenging 'stuck points' — distorted beliefs about the trauma
CPT specifically targets 'stuck points,' which are maladaptive cognitions about the trauma, self, and world that maintain PTSD symptoms.
When a treatment plan is not producing expected progress, the social worker should FIRST:
Answer: Review and reassess the accuracy of the initial assessment and goal relevance
Lack of progress warrants a reassessment of whether the initial assessment was accurate and whether goals and interventions remain appropriate before making other changes.
A social worker helping a client with anger management chooses to use a cognitive-behavioral intervention. Which technique is most consistent with this approach?
Answer: Identifying triggers, automatic thoughts, and replacing them with adaptive responses
CBT for anger management focuses on identifying triggering situations, automatic thoughts, and developing more adaptive cognitive and behavioral responses.