As an advanced-practice social worker, your toolbox should include tried and true interventions
Assignment: Practice Toolbox: Adult Intervention
As an advanced-practice social worker, your toolbox should include tried and true interventions for use with adults (like cognitive behavioral therapy [CBT]) but should also make room for emerging interventions that could be promising. Virtual reality therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), mindfulness-based stress reduction, and trauma-informed care have all been developed relatively recently, for example.
As you stay abreast of developments in the field, you may even want to gain certification or training in new therapeutic interventions. This is all part of being an informed, competent practitioner who desires to hone their knowledge and continue to evolve.
In this Assignment, you explore interventions for use with adults.
To Prepare
explore three different interventions for use with adults.
Strength-based therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy and counseling that focuses more on your internal strengths and resourcefulness, and less on weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings. This focus sets up a positive mindset that helps you build on you best qualities, find your strengths, improve resilience and change worldview to one that is more positive. A positive attitude, in turn, can help your expectations of yourself and others become more reasonable.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) provides clients with new skills to manage painful emotions and decrease conflict in relationships. DBT specifically focuses on providing therapeutic skills in four key areas. First, mindfulness focuses on improving an individual’s ability to accept and be present in the current moment. Second, distress tolerance is geared toward increasing a person’s tolerance of negative emotion, rather than trying to escape from it. Third, emotion regulation covers strategies to manage and change intense emotions that are causing problems in a person’s life. Fourth, interpersonal effectiveness consists of techniques that allow a person to communicate with others in a way that is assertive, maintains self-respect, and strengthens relationships.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a short-term form of psychotherapy based on the idea that the way someone thinks and feels affects the way he or she behaves. CBT aims to help clients resolve present-day challenges like depression or anxiety, relationship problems, anger issues, stress, or other common concerns that negatively affect mental health and quality of life. The goal of treatment is to help clients identify, challenge, and change maladaptive thought patterns in order to change their responses to difficult situations.
Select one that you can see yourself using in practice with adult clients. Do not use an intervention that you have chosen previously.
Consider why you have chosen this intervention and its strengths and limitations.
By Day 7
Submit a 1-page paper analyzing the adult intervention you have chosen:
Why did you select the intervention?
Why might it be especially helpful for use with adults?
What challenges or limitations might there be for this intervention?
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