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Always good, often test-relevant, a new Social Work Podcast is up–this one’s an interview with Cynthia Conley, PhD:
Cynthia Conley, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Her research focuses on parental concerns about having gay and lesbian children. Currently, Professor Conley is investigating the types of clinical interventions used with heterosexual parents of gay and lesbian children to develop a best practice model to improve family cohesion during the coming out crisis. Professor Conley has worked with LGBT adolescents and their parents since the late 1990s, focusing on heterosexual parent’s acceptance of their LGBT children. She provides consultation to organizations, educational institutions, and service providers on working with families of LGBT children. She received her B.A. from Purdue University, her MSW from Indiana University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Louisville.
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So says a recent study.
“Taking practice tests — particularly ones that involve attempting to recall something from memory — can drastically increase the likelihood that you’ll be able to remember that information again later,” Rawson said.
A new (as of mid-September) Social Work Podcast Is up: The Wisdom To Know the Difference: Interview with Eileen Flanagan
Most episodes of the Social Work Podcast take huge topics – like stigma, suicide, and cognitive-behavior therapy, and try to distill them into 30-minute overviews. Today’s podcast flips that on its head. Today we’re spending over thirty minutes to unpack 25 words. My hope is that listeners learn something about the Serenity prayer – something that they can incorporate into their social work education or practice.
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A welcome to new social work exam blog, LCSW Study Buddy. Just a handful of posts up as of this writing, but useful stuff and made fun, as in this post looking at ego defenses as exemplified by Friends characters. From there:
Intellectualization – Related to rationalization, intellectualization involves removing the emotion from emotional experiences, and discussing painful events in detached, uncaring, sterile ways. Someone who intellectualizes becomes very distant from their feelings, and when asked to describe their feelings may find it difficult. They may understand all the words that describe feelings, but have no idea what they really feel.
A good example is when Rachel dates Bruce Willis and tries to get to know him. He intellectualizes past painful relationships, without emotion. When he finally realizes his pain, of course, he can’t stop crying, which effectively, ends their relationship!
A new-ish Social Work Podcast: Social Skills Training with Children and Adolescents. Among the topics covered:
- What is social skills training?
- Who are some of the folks that it is used with – who are the target populations?
- Could you give some examples of what it is and how it’s done?
- Are the skills that you work on specific to a given diagnosis, or is it not diagnosis specific?
As ever, may help for the test, may not…but good to be saturated in social work as you prep.
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Prep-helpful? Incorporating Religion and Spirituality into Social Work Practice with African Americans.
…Or at least that’s the official title. The unofficial title is, “If my client brings God into the conversation, what should I do?” I spoke with Nancy Boyd-Franklin, best-selling author, multicultural researcher, family therapist and clinical trainer, and recipient of awards from the American Psychological Association, Association of Black Psychologists, and the American Family Therapy academy…
Name this therapy:
THIS THERAPY is a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). The primary focus of this treatment approach is to suggest changes in thinking that will lead to changes in behavior, thereby alleviating or improving symptoms. The therapy emphasizes changing irrational thinking patterns that cause emotional distress into thoughts that are more reasonable and rational. THIS THERAPY can be used to treat people affected from disorders such as anxiety, depression and stess.
Answer in comments or at the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders, source of the text.
The latest Social Work Podcast, is up–all about working abroad as a social worker. Not exam-prep content, but maybe exam-prep inspiration.
[I]f you’re interested in learning more about working abroad means, if you’re really interested in traveling to the U.K., or Australia… if you have questions about, “How do I finance it?”, “Can I bring my cat?”, “Do I need a license,” “Do I have to be a community organizer, do I have to be a policy person, can I do direct practice?” this podcast is for you – all of these questions will be answered.
Name this therapy/CBT treatment:
THIS THERAPY identifies the cognitions, emotions and physiological arousal that accompany a fear-inducing stimulus, and attempts to break the pattern of escape that strengthens the fear response through measured exposure to progressively stronger stimuli until habituation is reached. The technique involves the creation of a program of steadily escalating steps or challenges, which can be explicit or implicit, that work towards a final goal representing a ‘non-phobic’ behavior. The patient then voluntarily moves through the steps with a means of terminating each step which is under voluntary control.
Answer in comments or at wikipedia, source of the text.
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