Exam 10: Assessing

People in the _____ stage of the Transtheoretical Model tend to reflect ambivalence, uncertainty, disinterest, or denial.

The _____ stage of the Transtheoretical Model is characterized by a significant increase in thinking about solutions and resolutions.

Social work assessments are static processes.

According to the _____, long-term change in the person-issue-situation generally tends to proceed sequentially in five stages. 1.Precontemplation 2)Contemplation 3)Preparation 4)Action "5)Maintenance Prochaska and Norcross (2007) suggest that people who make significant changes in their behavior proceed through all stages of the TTM.Although the process may sometimes be spiral rather than linear in nature, they conclude that people who make durable change eventually address each stage."

Social work assessments are standardized and do not vary according to practice settings.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-5, mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupational, or other important activities.

Write an assessment section of the DAC (Description, Assessment, and Contract) on a client who has been assigned to you.

Whether theoretical or atheoretical in nature, the assessment process enables you and others to reach agreement about a "theory of the case."

The first step in the assessment process is to organize the information gained through exploration.

_____ builds upon the data collected during the exploring phase when a social worker and client addressed questions about the history and evolution of the issue of concern.

According to the Transtheoretical Model, long-term change in the person-issue-situation generally tends to proceed through five stages.Which of the following is the first step in this process? 1.Precontemplation 2)Contemplation 3)Preparation 4)Action "5)Maintenance Prochaska and Norcross (2007) suggest that people who make significant changes in their behavior proceed through all stages of the TTM.Although the process may sometimes be spiral rather than linear in nature, they conclude that people who make durable change eventually address each stage."

The _____ stage, the fifth stage, of the Transtheoretical Model represents the greatest challenge for a client, requiring ongoing motivation and commitment.

As social workers engage in assessment processes, we apply the primary critical thinking skills of analysis and synthesis.

In the context of professional social work, _____ involves scientific inquiry, critical thinking, and lifelong learning as a social worker brings his or her professional knowledge together with clients' firsthand experience in a collaborative process of reflection, analysis, and synthesis.

Which of the following is a tool used by social workers to assess clients' ability to shop, prepare food, cook, keep house, arrange for transportation, manage medications, use the telephone, bathe, dress, and feed themselves?

The Social Functioning Problems listed in the Person-in-Environment system of classifying problems include:

The _____ stage, the fourth stage of the Transtheoretical Model, is characterized by motivation, purposefulness, activity, and optimism.

Laila, a teenage drug addict, is sent to George, a social worker, for counseling.Initially, Laila denies her associations with drugs.However, gradually she accepts that she is depressed because her parents are getting divorced.George discusses the matter with Laila's parents and asks them to convince Laila that they still loved her.After three months of counseling sessions, George sees some positive changes in Laila.She seems happier and her drug tests are negative.Her grades have improved at school and she expresses the desire to become a social worker in the future.Laila is in the _____ stage of the Transtheoretical Model.

In the assessment stage of a working relationship between a social worker and a client, explanatory hypotheses logically guide us toward _____.

Which of the following statements is true of social work assessments?