SWs engaging in problem-solving
Motivation
State of readiness or eagerness to change, which can fluctuate with time and depending on situation
**Empathy increases motivation and decreases resistance
Complete participant
Living the experience as a participant
Participant as observer
Interacting with those who are participating
Observer as participant
Limited relationship with other participants - mainly observing
Complete observer
Observer only, removed from activity
Congruence
Matching of awareness and experience with communication
Essential to client-sw relationship
Live modeling
Watching a real person perform a desired behavior
Symbolic modeling
Watching videotapes of specific behaviors
**Self-modeling = symbolic modeling = clients are videotaped doing something
Covert modeling
Clients asked to use their imagination and envision specific behaviors
Conflict resolution
Structuring techniques
Crisis precipitant
A crisis does NOT need to be precipitated by a major life event
Goals of crisis intervention
**focuses on here and now, directive, time limited, requires high levels of sw involvement
Stress Management
2. Identify what parts of the situation the client has control over
CBT
Goal - change patterns of thinking and thus behavior and how the client feels
Combines psychotherapy and behavioral therapy approaches
Active, collaborative, structured, time limited, goal oriented and problem focused
Steps in cognitive restructuring
Empowering clinets
Partializing
Breaking big goals into smaller goals so they are easier achieved
Change strategies
Task-centered approaches
Aim to quickly engage clients in problem-solving process and to maximize their responsibility for treatment outcomes
Time-limited, here and now focus
Psychoeducation methods
Education has a role in emotional and behavioral change
Group work
Contradictions for group work