Field Manual for 2013-2014 - University of Maryland School of ...

* Developmental life-cycle perspective
1. Identifies the normal developmental stage of the client and the developmental tasks associated with
that stage.
2. Identifies constitutional fads that influence behavior.
* Personality development
1. Identifies the nature and source of anxiety and the characteristic ways people reduce anxiety.
2. Identifies and assesses specific ego functions and ego defenses.
3. Recognizes the specific adaptive techniques people develop in stressful environments.
4. Identifies the coping and progressive forces of the personality.
5. Distinguishes between what is in conscious awareness and what is outside of awareness.
6. Impact of early attachments on relationships.
* Theories of psychopathology
1. Views mental health and mental illness as a continuum, rather than as the presence or absence of
disease.
2. Recognizes the psychological and socio-cultural factors in mental illness.
3. Understands that socio-cultural factors influence the definition of and responses to mental illness.
4. Understands the implications of the labeling process.
5. Identifies dysfunction in the family and in other systems that relate to the mental illness of the client.
6. Uses perspectives on psychopathology that reduce the distance between the worker and client.
*Trauma
1. Recognizes different types of trauma over the lifecycle.
2. Understands the difference between interpersonal and impersonal trauma.
3. Recognizes the effect of trauma on personality development and relationships.
4. Identifies a range of evidence-based treatment approaches.
D. Knowledge about the structure and dynamics of groups.
1. Identifies the ways in which groups can be helpful to people.
2. Is aware of the types of groups that can be useful in a clinical setting (e.g., socialization, education,
therapy, activity, social action).
3. Identifies group processes as they occur in client, staff and student groups (e.g., setting norms,
subgroup formation, cohesion, control, and decision making).
4. Identifies phases of group development.
5. Understands the use of programs as a tool in work with groups.
6. Knows the issues and steps in organizing and starting a group.
E. Knowledge about the structure and dynamics of families.
1. Understands how the family organizes itself to accomplish its goals.
2. Understands that the family contributes to and reacts to the presenting problem.
3. Understands that individual change affects the family and that family change affects the individual.
4. Understands communication patterns among family members.
5. Recognizes the ways in which family interviews contribute to diagnosis and treatment.
F. Knowledge of communication processes, including these for populations at risk.
1. Describes her/his own communication style as well as that of the client
2. Recognizes:
a. Non-verbal and verbal communication.
b. Incongruities between verbal and non-verbal communication.
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