social work terms

Ego strengths

The individuals capacity for logical thinking, intelligence, perceptiveness, and self-control over impulses to achieve immediate gratification.

Privilege

Illegal rule that protects communications between the therapist and client from being shared in court proceeding without express permission, quarts often honor this unless there is a risk of public danger or threat to the public good in which case is social worker may be court order to share information

Reflective listening

A technique in which the social worker clarifies and shows the client what their feelings are in the moment and encourage further expression and understanding of those feelings often through paraphrasing

Consultation

A problem-solving process in which advice other helping activity is offered to an individual group or organization or community that is faced with a problem

Ego Syntonic

Traits of a personality thought behavior and values that are incorporated by the individual who considers them acceptable and consistent with his or her overall true self

Counter transference

A set of conscious or unconscious emotional reactions to a client experienced by the therapist these feelings usually originate in the therapist on developmental conflicts past

Negative reinforcement

And behavior modification the strengthening of a response through the removal of adverse stimuli

Empathy

The act of perceiving understanding experiencing and responding to the emotional state and ideas of another person

Extinction

And behavior modification the elimination, or weakening of a conditioned response by discontinuing the reinforcement after the response occurs.

Transference

A concept that refers to emotional reactions that are assigned to current relationships, but originated in earlier experiences often the feelings that client has toward their therapist

Positive reinforcement

And behavior modification a procedure that strengthens the tendency of a response to recur

enmeshment

A relationship pattern in which role boundaries between individuals are so vague or diffuse that there’s a little opportunity for independent functioning

Ego Dystonic

Traits of personality behavior, thought orientation considered to be unacceptable, repugnant or inconsistent with the individuals perceptions, conscious or unconscious of themselves