The process of engaging a reactant/ambivalent client in a working relationship.

What will be an ideal response?


Papers should be evaluated on the extent to which the following issues are addressed:
• Allowing the client to state the cause of referral from his or her own viewpoint
• Expressing empathy for pressures experienced
• Avoiding labeling the client in negative ways
• Identifying nonnegotiable legal and agency requirements
• Affirming client rights
• Reaffirming choices and negotiable options
• Not using authority to impose personal standards of conduct, but only to exercise the precise level of authority delegated by the sanctioning body

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Explain what mindfulness is using the example of washing dishes.

What will be an ideal response?

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An effective policy framework

a. is not concerned with the political process and political stakeholders. b. is focused on only one policy at a time. c. evaluates the congruence of a policy with the mission and goals of the social welfare state. d. owes as much to intuition as it does to rational analysis.

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Developmental disabilities can be severe and chronic, likely lasting over a person's lifetime

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Self-efficacy in clients is enhanced when a. clients succeed in solving the problems they themselves have identified. b. practitioners tell the clients that they have self-efficacy

c. the clients fail to meet identified goals. d. the clients grow older.

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