Clinical Social Work Intervention
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Double-Bind Communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A set of contradictory or
logically inconsistent communications from the same person along with an injunction that the
receiver of the communications must not communicate on the inconsistency
Structural Family Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Family therapy approach that
emphasizes altering the family's structure - rigid triangles, power hierarchies - in order to
change the behavior patterns of family members. Stages: Join the Family System Evaluate the
Family Structure Restructure the family using techniques such as enactment and reframing
Focus is on behavior change rather than insight
Regression - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Defense Mechanism: Occurs when a person
retreats to an earlier, safer stage of development and behaves in ways characteristic of that
stage
Family Myths - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Beliefs shared by all family members with
regard to each other and their relative positions in the family. Myths go unchallenged and
maintain family homeostasis.
Pursuer - Distancer - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A term to illustrate polarity that results in a
dyadic relationship when the members have opposing responses to anxiety or conflict. The
pursuer believes that the solution lies in external action or moving toward another for
comfort. The distancer avoids anxiety or conflict by withdrawing and moving away from
others.
Triangulation - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅According to Minuchin - a form of rigid triad
involving usually two parents and a child. The two parents avoid conflict by involving he
child - thereby stabilizing their own relationship. Can refer to any triangle in which one
person experiences a loyalty conflict.
Narrowing the Focus:Funneling - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A helping skill that involves
asking a series of questions designed to help the client describe his/her concerns or situations
with more specificity.
, Counterconditioning - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅In classical conditioning - the elimination
of a response by pairing the response or associated stimuli with a stimulus that naturally
elicits an incompatible and more desirable response.
Libido - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅According to Freud - the psychic energy that is
generated by the instinctual drives of the id
I-Statements - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Statement used to send clear and direct messages
to reduce the possibility of defensiveness. Consists of a brief, clear description of the tangible
impact another person's behavior has had on the speaker or others.
Ventilation Procedure - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Techniques used to assist clients to
identify and appropriately express their feelings - effective for establishing a foundation for
self-exploration and rational discussion in work with a client because, once verbalized a
client's emotions become accessible to support and reassurance from the social worker.
Time-out - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A form of negative punishment in which the
individual is removed from all opportunities for reinforcement for a pre-specified period of
time following a misbehavior in order to decrease the occurrence of that behavior.
Abreaction - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅An emotional release after recalling a painful
experience that has been repressed because it was not tolerable to the conscious mind.
General Systems Theory - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Theory that the "whole" can be
understood only in terms of the organization and interactions of its components - the
theoretical framework underlying family therapy. Systems can be Open or Closed.
Open System - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Receive input from and discharge output to the
environment. Families are primarily open systems.
Closed System - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅No exchange with the evironment
Feminist Theory - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Form of therapy that is based on the premise
that "the personal is political". Focuses on empowerment and social change and
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Double-Bind Communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A set of contradictory or
logically inconsistent communications from the same person along with an injunction that the
receiver of the communications must not communicate on the inconsistency
Structural Family Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Family therapy approach that
emphasizes altering the family's structure - rigid triangles, power hierarchies - in order to
change the behavior patterns of family members. Stages: Join the Family System Evaluate the
Family Structure Restructure the family using techniques such as enactment and reframing
Focus is on behavior change rather than insight
Regression - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Defense Mechanism: Occurs when a person
retreats to an earlier, safer stage of development and behaves in ways characteristic of that
stage
Family Myths - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Beliefs shared by all family members with
regard to each other and their relative positions in the family. Myths go unchallenged and
maintain family homeostasis.
Pursuer - Distancer - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A term to illustrate polarity that results in a
dyadic relationship when the members have opposing responses to anxiety or conflict. The
pursuer believes that the solution lies in external action or moving toward another for
comfort. The distancer avoids anxiety or conflict by withdrawing and moving away from
others.
Triangulation - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅According to Minuchin - a form of rigid triad
involving usually two parents and a child. The two parents avoid conflict by involving he
child - thereby stabilizing their own relationship. Can refer to any triangle in which one
person experiences a loyalty conflict.
Narrowing the Focus:Funneling - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A helping skill that involves
asking a series of questions designed to help the client describe his/her concerns or situations
with more specificity.
, Counterconditioning - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅In classical conditioning - the elimination
of a response by pairing the response or associated stimuli with a stimulus that naturally
elicits an incompatible and more desirable response.
Libido - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅According to Freud - the psychic energy that is
generated by the instinctual drives of the id
I-Statements - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Statement used to send clear and direct messages
to reduce the possibility of defensiveness. Consists of a brief, clear description of the tangible
impact another person's behavior has had on the speaker or others.
Ventilation Procedure - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Techniques used to assist clients to
identify and appropriately express their feelings - effective for establishing a foundation for
self-exploration and rational discussion in work with a client because, once verbalized a
client's emotions become accessible to support and reassurance from the social worker.
Time-out - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A form of negative punishment in which the
individual is removed from all opportunities for reinforcement for a pre-specified period of
time following a misbehavior in order to decrease the occurrence of that behavior.
Abreaction - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅An emotional release after recalling a painful
experience that has been repressed because it was not tolerable to the conscious mind.
General Systems Theory - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Theory that the "whole" can be
understood only in terms of the organization and interactions of its components - the
theoretical framework underlying family therapy. Systems can be Open or Closed.
Open System - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Receive input from and discharge output to the
environment. Families are primarily open systems.
Closed System - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅No exchange with the evironment
Feminist Theory - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Form of therapy that is based on the premise
that "the personal is political". Focuses on empowerment and social change and
