Chance to Excel 3 Flashcards
Psychotherapy intergration
- attempts to look beyond and across the confines of single-school approaches to see what could be learned from different perspectives
- goal is to enhance the efficiency and applicability of psychotherapy
technical intergration
- selecting the best treatment techniques for the person and the problem without necessarily subscribing to the theoretical positions that spawned them
- multimodal therapy
theoretical intergration
goal of producing a conceptual framework that synthesizes the best aspects of two or more theoretical approaches
assimilative integration
- an approach is grounded in a particular school of psychotherapy, yet selectively incorporates practices from other theories
syncretism
the counselor, lacking in knowledge and skill in selecting interventions, looks for anything that seems to work; making little attempt to determine if it is effective
facilitating change in family systems
viewing family therapy as a joint or collaborative process (enactments & assignment of tasks)
Bowen’s Family System approach
- 3 generation perspective
- patterns connect family members across generations
- family is seen as an emotional unit
differentiation of self
- a psychological separation from others
triangulation
a third party is recruited to reduce anxiety and stabilize a couples’ relationship
sculpting and family reconstruction
- the development of a nurturing triad
- two people working for the well-being of another person
human validation process model
- emphasizes communication and emotional experiencing
- bring family patterns to life in the present through sculpting and family reconstructions
genogram
a diagram illustrating a person’s family members, how they are related, and their medical history
Founders of Post-modern theories
- Berg and Shazer (SBFT)
- White and Epston (Narrative)
solution-focused brief therapy
a future-focused, goal-oriented therapeutic approach to brief therapy
- emphasizes strengths and resiliencies
SFBT Tecniques
- pretherapy change, exception question, miracle question
scaling questions, homework
miracle question
“If a miracle happened and the problem you have was solved overnight, how would you know it was solved, and what would be different?”
SFBT 7 stages in treatment
- identifying solvable complaint
- establishing goals
- designing intervention
- strategic tasks (window shoppers, complainants, customers)
- positive new behaviors emphasized
- stabilization
- termination
goals of narrative
- invite people to describe their experience in new and fresh language
- seek to enlarge the perspective and facilitate the discovery or creation of new options
constructivism
- reality is constructed, not discovered
- there is no one objective view of the world
social constructivism
values the client’s reality without disputing whether it is accurate or rational
importance of storytelling
creates space for individuals to externalize their experiences and give new meaning to their lives through writing or rewriting narratives
goals of feminist theory
- empowerment,
- valuing and affirming diversity
- striving for change
- equality
- social change
- self-nurturance
liberal feminism
- helping individual women overcome limits and constraints of their socialization patterns
- goals: empowerment, dignity, self-fulfillment, equality
cultural feminism
- Oppression stems from society’s devaluation of women’s strengths
- Emphasize the differences between women and men
- Believe the solution to oppression lies in feminization of the culture
- Society becomes more nurturing, cooperative, and relational
- goal: infusion of society with values based on cooperation
radical feminism
- oppression of women that is embedded in patriarchy
- seek to change society through activism
- therapy is viewed as a political enterprise with the goal of transformation of society
socialist feminism
- goal of societal change
- emphasis on multiple oppressions
- believe solutions to society’s problems must include consideration of class, race and other forms of discrimination
key assumptions of feminist theory
- problems viewed in a sociopolitical and cultural context
- the client knows best
- acknowledgement of psychological oppression
- individual change can occur through social change
self-disclosure in feminist theory
- helps equalize the therapeutic relationship and provide modeling for the client
- values, beliefs about society, and therapeutic interventions discussed
- allows the client to make an informed choice
founders of realuty theory
William Glasser and Robert Wubbolding
Reality therapy basic beliefs
- symptoms are the results of the choices we make
- we can choose to think, feel, and behave differently
- rejects focus on past, dwelling on feelings or insight, transference and the unconscious
basic needs (reality)
- belonging, power, freedom, fun, and survival
reality view of human nature
- we are not born blank slates
- we are born with 5 genetically encoded needs that drive our lives: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun
founder of REBT
Albert Ellis
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
- emphasizes thinking, assessing, deciding, analyzing, and doing
- people contribute to their own psychological problems, by the rigid and extreme beliefs they hold about events and situations
ABC framework
A) activating event
B) belief about A
C) emotional consequence
founders of CBT
Aaron Beck and Judith Beck
founders of behavior therapy
BF Skinner and Albert Bandura
CBT Techniques
- identifying negative thoughts
- goal setting
- problem solving
- self- monitoring
4 areas of development behavior theory
classical conditioning, operant conditioning, social-cognitive theory, CBT
