A main goal of Problem Solving Therapy is:
a) Improve problem-solving ability
b) Decrease the tendency to be avoidant
c) Minimize the tendency to be impulsive
d) All of the above
The founder of psychiatric social work was
a) Mary Jarrett
b) Anna Freud
c) Edith Burleigh
d) Clifford Beers
A consumer with bipolar disorder comes into the social worker's office complaining that she wanted
her family caregivers to come to session to learn more about her illness, but they refused. This type
of caregiving is MOST likely considered:
a) Stigmatized
b) Burdened
c) Effective
d) Complex
The Tarasoff rulings put pressure on mental health workers because:
a) They have to determine whether patients can refuse antipsychotic medications
b) It forces them to come up with the least restrictive alternative
c) They have to determine whether treatment for mental illness and mental retardation is humane
d) The are in positiion to assess a client's dangerousness and predict if he/she is a threat to others
A core concept of the problem-solving conceptualization of depression is:
a) Distorted thinking
b) Unsatisfactory social relationships
c) Negative orientation
d) Fixation at the oral stage of development
Dorothea Dix was
a) a famous patient in a psychiatric hospital
b) the founder of moral treatment
c) an opponent of institutionalization
d) an advocate for treatment of people with mental illness
A conflict with recovery-oriented thinking may occur when a social worker:
a) Enables a consumer to identify his/her own goals
b) Focuses on a consumer's strengths
c) Suspects that a consumer's illness will never improve
d) Offers hope to a consumer that improvements can be made
The role of the therapist in Interpersonal Therapy is:
a) Problem solver
b) Shaper
c) Client advocate
d) Interpreter
The father of American psychiatry was
a) Adolf Meyer
b) Benjamin Ruch
c) Sigmund Freud
d) Clifford Beers
A 35-year-old female with serious mental illness is referred to an Illness Management and Recovery
program.
The consumer expresses doubts to the social worker about the program because she states
she has been in too many programs where she sits around doing nothing. The social worker should
FIRST:
a) Spend one or more sessions orienting her to the structure of the program
b) Suggest that the program may not be for her
c) Evaluate her for delusional thinking
d) Ask her whether she has been compliant on her medications
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