Chapter 1

Question 1

Psychodynamic approaches

Answer 1

Psychoanalytic, adlerian

Question 2

Experiential and relationship-oriented therapies

Answer 2

Existential (humanistic), person-centered, gestalt

Question 3

Cognitive behavioral approaches

Answer 3

behavior therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, choice theory/reality therapy

Question 4

Systems & post-modern approaches

Answer 4

Feminist, post-modern (i.e. solution-focused, narrative), family systems therapy

Question 5

A theory of personality development, a philosophy of human nature, and a method of psychotherapy that focuses on unconscious factors that motivate behavior. Attention is given to the events of the first six years of life as determinants of the later development of personality

Answer 5

Psychoanalytic therapy

Question 6

Founder Alfred Adler

Answer 6

Adlerian therapy

Question 7

Rudolf Dreikurs is a key figure of this approach

Answer 7

Adlerian

Question 8

Growth model that stresses assuming responsibility, creating one’s own destiny, and finding meaning and goals to create a purposeful life.

Answer 8

Adlerian

Question 9

Key figures: Viktor Frankl, Rolls May, Irvin Yalom

Answer 9

Existential therapy

Question 10

Reacting against the tendency to view therapy as a system of well-defined techniques, this model stresses building therapy on the basic conditions of human existence, such as choice, the freedom and responsibility to shape one’s life, and self-determination. Focuses on the quality of the person-to-person therapeutic relationship

Answer 10

Existential therapy

Question 11

Developed during the 1940s as a non directive reaction against psychoanalysis. Based on a subjective view of human experiencing, it places faith in and gives responsibility to the client in dealing with problems and concerns

Answer 11

Person-centered

Question 12

Founders: Fritz and Laura Perls; key figures: Miriam and Erving Polster

Answer 12

Gestalt

Question 13

An experiential therapy stressing awareness and integration; grew as a reaction against analytic therapy. It integrates the functioning of body and mind and places emphasis on the therapeutic relationship

Answer 13

gestalt

Question 14

Conscious action, belonging, and social interest

Answer 14

Adlerian

Question 15

Stresses concern for what it means to be fully human; seeks to understand the subjective world of the person

Answer 15

Existential approach

Question 16

Places emphasis on the basic attitudes of the therapist

Answer 16

Person-centered

Question 17

Assumes clients have the capacity for self-determination without active intervention and direction on the part of the therpist

Answer 17

Person-centered

Question 18

Offers a range of experiments to help clients gain awareness of what they are experiencing in the here-and-now

Answer 18

Gestalt

Question 19

Approaches that emphasize emotion as a route to bringing about change (could be considered emotion-focused therapies)

Answer 19

Experiential and relationship-oriented therapies

Question 20

A complete therapy system must address what the client is ______, ________, and _______.

Answer 20

thinking, feeling, doing