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What is a homogeneous group composed of? - ✔✔members based on similarities rather than
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diversity (ie. same gender, presenting problem, race)
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To diagnose Adjustment Disorder, the client's symptoms must begin within _______ months of an
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identifiable stressor. Once the stressor or the consequences of the stressor are gone, symptoms
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cannot persist beyond _______ months. - ✔✔three, six
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Solution Focused Brief Therapy - ✔✔Focuses on solutions and not problems. Uses the miracle
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question, client is responsible for change, scaling, identifying exceptions, problem free talking,
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flagging the minefield. Used with other approaches and use for depression and anxiety, also acute
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symptoms as an adjustment disorder. || || || ||
Examples of SFBT coping questions - ✔✔What is the least that you would like to achieve? What
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would be different in your life when you have reached your goal? How would that change make a
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difference for you? How will you know that your goal has been reached? This question is
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intended to help clients recognize their own resiliency and identify some of the ways in which
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they already cope with their problems effectively.
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The Premack Principle indicates that you can use _______-probability behavior to reinforce
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_______-probability behavior. - ✔✔high, low || || || ||
Substance abuse is a common comorbidity with what disorder? - ✔✔Adjustment
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Stress Inoculation Training involves - ✔✔teaching coping skills to manage stress and anxiety.
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This may include training in deep muscle relaxation, cognitive restructuring, breathing exercises,
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assertiveness skills, thought stopping, role playing, and guided self-dialogue. || || || || || || || ||
, Reaction formation (defense mechanism) - ✔✔when people express the opposite of their true
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feelings, sometimes to an exaggerated extent.
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Stonewalling - ✔✔when someone completely shuts down in a conversation or is refusing to
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communicate with another person. || || ||
Regression (defense mechanism) - ✔✔A person goes back to an earlier or less mature state or
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behavior
Strongest linear correlation occurs when the slope is between - ✔✔0.85 and 1
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When asked to evaluate a client's level of mental functioning, you are assessing how the client
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functions in specific domains. You can use the acronym "ROSE" which stands for what -
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✔✔relational, occupational, social, and educational. || || || ||
When using motivational interviewing, the therapist determines which stage of change the client
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is currently in. What are the 5 stages of change? - ✔✔Pre-contemplation: no intention of
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changing behavior ||
Contemplation: aware problem exists but no commitment to action || || || || || || || ||
Preparation: intent on taking action to address the problem || || || || || || || ||
Action: active modification of behavior
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Maintenance: sustained change || ||
Partial remission for adhd : full criteria for the disorder has not been met for _______ months but
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functional impairment still exists - ✔✔six || || || || ||
What is paresthesia? - ✔✔abnormal skin sensation characterized by tingling, burning, pricking,
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itching, or numbness.|| ||
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What is a homogeneous group composed of? - ✔✔members based on similarities rather than
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diversity (ie. same gender, presenting problem, race)
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To diagnose Adjustment Disorder, the client's symptoms must begin within _______ months of an
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identifiable stressor. Once the stressor or the consequences of the stressor are gone, symptoms
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cannot persist beyond _______ months. - ✔✔three, six
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Solution Focused Brief Therapy - ✔✔Focuses on solutions and not problems. Uses the miracle
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question, client is responsible for change, scaling, identifying exceptions, problem free talking,
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flagging the minefield. Used with other approaches and use for depression and anxiety, also acute
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symptoms as an adjustment disorder. || || || ||
Examples of SFBT coping questions - ✔✔What is the least that you would like to achieve? What
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would be different in your life when you have reached your goal? How would that change make a
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difference for you? How will you know that your goal has been reached? This question is
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
intended to help clients recognize their own resiliency and identify some of the ways in which
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they already cope with their problems effectively.
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The Premack Principle indicates that you can use _______-probability behavior to reinforce
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_______-probability behavior. - ✔✔high, low || || || ||
Substance abuse is a common comorbidity with what disorder? - ✔✔Adjustment
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Stress Inoculation Training involves - ✔✔teaching coping skills to manage stress and anxiety.
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This may include training in deep muscle relaxation, cognitive restructuring, breathing exercises,
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
assertiveness skills, thought stopping, role playing, and guided self-dialogue. || || || || || || || ||
, Reaction formation (defense mechanism) - ✔✔when people express the opposite of their true
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feelings, sometimes to an exaggerated extent.
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Stonewalling - ✔✔when someone completely shuts down in a conversation or is refusing to
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communicate with another person. || || ||
Regression (defense mechanism) - ✔✔A person goes back to an earlier or less mature state or
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behavior
Strongest linear correlation occurs when the slope is between - ✔✔0.85 and 1
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When asked to evaluate a client's level of mental functioning, you are assessing how the client
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
functions in specific domains. You can use the acronym "ROSE" which stands for what -
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✔✔relational, occupational, social, and educational. || || || ||
When using motivational interviewing, the therapist determines which stage of change the client
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is currently in. What are the 5 stages of change? - ✔✔Pre-contemplation: no intention of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
changing behavior ||
Contemplation: aware problem exists but no commitment to action || || || || || || || ||
Preparation: intent on taking action to address the problem || || || || || || || ||
Action: active modification of behavior
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Maintenance: sustained change || ||
Partial remission for adhd : full criteria for the disorder has not been met for _______ months but
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functional impairment still exists - ✔✔six || || || || ||
What is paresthesia? - ✔✔abnormal skin sensation characterized by tingling, burning, pricking,
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itching, or numbness.|| ||
