NASW Prep Course For ASWB LCSW
Questions And Answers.
SOAP Note -
\Subjective
Objective
Assessment
Plan
Systems Theory
(family, couple, group) -
\Dynamic interaction of the components
Interaction among the parts if the system
Problems are defined in transactional terms; therefore, the responsibility for change dies
not rest on the identified client alone.
Ecological/Life Systems Model -
\Theory: Focuses on the interactedness between people and their environment.
Goodness of fit
The degree of fit between person and environment
Transactional relationship
Focus of intervention: the interface between client (person, family, group, etc) and the
client's environment.
Aim of intervention: to make the client's environment more responsive to his/her needs
and to release the client's adaptive potential by altering the transactions between the
client and environment.
Functional Approach -
\Growth with the center of change residing in the client, not in the worker.
"Helping rather than treating".
Principles: time phases (beginning, middle, ending); use of structure; de-emphasize
diagnosis; function of agency; and use of relationship.
Planned Short-Term Task-Centered Treatment (Reed, Epstein) -
, \Hallmarks: restricting the duration of treatment at the outset and using interventions
from learning theory and behavior modification to promote completion of a well-defined
task. (Access, Set Goals, Define Tasks)
Primary aim: to quickly engage clients in the problem-solving process and to maximize
their responsibility for treatment outcome.
Highly Structured
Time Limited (8 to 12 sessions)
Process, Access, Goals, Tasks
Problem Solving Aporoach -
\Goals of action:
Motivation
Capacities for coping
Opportunities and resources
Four P's: Person, Problem, Place (agency), Process (therapeutic relationship)
Psychosocial Aporoach -
\The diagnosis is based on this theory (psychosocial history).
Psychoanalytic Theory -
\Three personality structures:
1. Id: unconscious source of motives and drives; pleasure principle, seeks immediate
gratification.
2. Ego: emerges at approximately 6 months and represents logic and reason; mediates
between id, superego and reality; reality principle.
3. Superego: incorporates parental and societal values and standards into personality;
developed between ages if four and five.
Ego strength -
\The ability of the ego to effectively deal with the demands of the ID, the superego, and
reality.
Ego strength helps us maintain emotional stability and cope with internal and external
stress.
Ego Syntonic / Ego Dystonic -
\Syntonic = behaviors "in-sync" with ego (no guilt)
Dystonic = behaviors "dis-in-sync" with ego (guilt)
The ego's job is to determine the best course of action based on information from the id,
reality, and the superego. When the ego is comfortable with its conclusion ps and
Questions And Answers.
SOAP Note -
\Subjective
Objective
Assessment
Plan
Systems Theory
(family, couple, group) -
\Dynamic interaction of the components
Interaction among the parts if the system
Problems are defined in transactional terms; therefore, the responsibility for change dies
not rest on the identified client alone.
Ecological/Life Systems Model -
\Theory: Focuses on the interactedness between people and their environment.
Goodness of fit
The degree of fit between person and environment
Transactional relationship
Focus of intervention: the interface between client (person, family, group, etc) and the
client's environment.
Aim of intervention: to make the client's environment more responsive to his/her needs
and to release the client's adaptive potential by altering the transactions between the
client and environment.
Functional Approach -
\Growth with the center of change residing in the client, not in the worker.
"Helping rather than treating".
Principles: time phases (beginning, middle, ending); use of structure; de-emphasize
diagnosis; function of agency; and use of relationship.
Planned Short-Term Task-Centered Treatment (Reed, Epstein) -
, \Hallmarks: restricting the duration of treatment at the outset and using interventions
from learning theory and behavior modification to promote completion of a well-defined
task. (Access, Set Goals, Define Tasks)
Primary aim: to quickly engage clients in the problem-solving process and to maximize
their responsibility for treatment outcome.
Highly Structured
Time Limited (8 to 12 sessions)
Process, Access, Goals, Tasks
Problem Solving Aporoach -
\Goals of action:
Motivation
Capacities for coping
Opportunities and resources
Four P's: Person, Problem, Place (agency), Process (therapeutic relationship)
Psychosocial Aporoach -
\The diagnosis is based on this theory (psychosocial history).
Psychoanalytic Theory -
\Three personality structures:
1. Id: unconscious source of motives and drives; pleasure principle, seeks immediate
gratification.
2. Ego: emerges at approximately 6 months and represents logic and reason; mediates
between id, superego and reality; reality principle.
3. Superego: incorporates parental and societal values and standards into personality;
developed between ages if four and five.
Ego strength -
\The ability of the ego to effectively deal with the demands of the ID, the superego, and
reality.
Ego strength helps us maintain emotional stability and cope with internal and external
stress.
Ego Syntonic / Ego Dystonic -
\Syntonic = behaviors "in-sync" with ego (no guilt)
Dystonic = behaviors "dis-in-sync" with ego (guilt)
The ego's job is to determine the best course of action based on information from the id,
reality, and the superego. When the ego is comfortable with its conclusion ps and
