Chance to Excel 2 Flashcards

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Goals of Existential Therapy

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  • aid client in dealing with life conditions (death, isolation, meaninglessness)
  • find value, meaning and purpose
  • develop awareness
  • confront fears and anxieties
  • become aware of freedom to aid in self-actualization
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Strengths of Existential Therapy

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  • highly relevant in working in a multicultural context
  • invites clients to examine the degree to which their behavior is being influenced by social and cultural conditioning
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Limitations of Existential Therapy

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  • may not work for all cultures (collectivistic)
  • may not account for real-life limitations for oppressed
  • very indirect, which may be off-putting for some
  • no specific techniques, making treatments hard to standardize
  • very individualistic; ignores social factors that cause human problems
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Philosophical Approach Existential Therapy

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  • phenomenological
  • humans are in a constant state of transition, evolving, and becoming
  • clients are searching for meaning in their subjective worlds
  • purpose, death, freedom, isolation, meaning
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4 givens of existence

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death, freedom, isolation, meaninglessness

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inevitability of death

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  • the realization that death is an outcome for everyone
  • the fear of non-existence can make life seem pointless
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meaninglessness

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  • only certainties in life are birth and death
  • lack of meaning in life can create a sense of hopelessness, despair, and emptiness
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isolation

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we are ultimately alone; everyone experiences feelings of alienation and loneliness; lacking true connection with others

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Anxiety (Existential)

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  • is an unavoidable result of being confronted with the “givens of existence”
  • part of living with awareness and being fully alive
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View of Diagnosis (Existential)

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opposed to diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis

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“Aloneness”

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the sense of isolation comes when we recognize that we can’t depend on anyone else for our own confirmation; we alone must give a sense of meaning to life

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Logotherapy

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  • designed to help clients find meaning in life
  • human suffering (the tragic and negative aspects of life) can be turned into human achievement by the stand an individual takes when face with it
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Freedom

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  • we have the ability and responsibility to make choices to lead a more purposeful life with the limited time that we have
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Goals of P.C. Therapy

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to assist clients in achieving a greater degree of independence and integration so they can better cope with problems as they identify them

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Strengths of P.C

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  • good multicultural application
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Limitations of P.C.

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  • not good for collectivistic cultures
  • new counselors may have a difficult time supporting while challenging the client
  • lack of techniques
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Role of Counselor P.C

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  • therapist uses themselves as an instrument of change by encountering clients on a person-to-person level
  • create a quality therapeutic environment
  • model
  • genuineness, openness, authenticity
  • deepens knowledge of self
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P.C. Techniques

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  • congruence
  • unconditional positive regard
  • accurate empathic understanding
  • reflection of feelings, presence, immediacy
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motivation towards change (P.C)

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  • self-actualizing tendency
  • humans have the inherent capacity to move away from maladjustment and toward growth
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P.C. Therapeutic relationship

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  • shared journey
  • accepting the client without judgment and being authentic in interactions.
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congruence

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  • genuineness/realness
  • behaviors match words
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unconditional positive regard

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  • acceptance and genuine caring
  • accepting clients for who the presently are
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empathy

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  • the ability to deeply grasp the client’s subjective world
  • attitudes are more important than knowledge
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reflection P.C

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Repeating what the client has shared about his or her feelings (AKA: active listening)

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third force (PC)

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Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow who emphasized self-actualization, health, creativity, becoming, and meaning-making.

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Motivational Interviewing (Stages of change)

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  • brief interview
  • focuses on self-responsibility
  • goal to reduce client ambivalence about change and increase the client’s own motivation for change
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Goals of Gestalt Therapy

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  • assist the client in attaining greater awareness and choice
  • increased self-awareness
  • assume ownership of their experience
  • learn to accept responsibility
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Strengths of Gestalt

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  • takes the client’s context into account
  • effective in helping clients integrate the polarities within themselves
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Limitations of Gestalt

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  • potential for power abuse by therapist
  • high focus on emotion may pose challenges or limitations for clients
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Resistance

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defenses we develop to prevent us from experiencing the present fully

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Introjection

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  • the tendency to uncritically accept others’ beliefs and standards without stimulating them to make them congruent with who we are
  • blocks you from self-actualizing
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Projection

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  • disown certain aspects of ourselves by assigning them to the environment
  • ex. blaming others for our problems
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Retroflection

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  • turning back onto ourselves what we would like to do to someone else or doing to ourselves what we would like someone else to do to or for us
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Confluence

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blurring the differentiation between the self and environment
- ex. avoidance of conflict, people pleasing

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deflection

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the process of distraction or veering off, so that it is difficult to maintain and sustain a sense of contact
- ex. beating around the bush, changing subject in the middle of an argument

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blocks to energy

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  • where energy is in the body, how it is used, and how it may be causing a blockage
  • a form of resistance, for example, tension in a part of the body, not breathing deeply, or avoiding eye contact.
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figure formation process

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  • tracks how the individual organizes experience from moment to moment
  • some aspect of the environmental field emerges from the background and becomes the focal point of the individuals attention and interest
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here-and-now

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  • our power is in the present
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impasse

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  • a stuck point; unfinished business
  • occurs when external support is not available or the customary way of being does not work