Clinical Flashcards
When a family has a high degree of fusion but one member is more differentiated than the others, what should the therapist do?
Work with the most differentiated member
Patient in preparation phase will plan to change when?
Immediate future (within next month)
Patient in contemplation phase will plan to change in the next _____ months?
6
BDI Score: 0-13
Minimal depression
BDI score: 14-19
Mild depression
BDI score: 20-28
Moderate depression
BDI score: 29+
Severe depression
Distortion:
Focusing solely on a detail that is taken out of context
Selective abstraction
When working with Native American clients, a therapist using Network Therapy would act primarily as?
A catalyst
According to Heinz Kohut, what should a therapist use when working with a narcissistic client?
Empathy
He posited a lack of parental empathy is what led to narcissism in the child
The primary goal of Gestalt therapy
Increase awareness
Which form of therapy helps clients find meaning in life?
Logotherapy
Created by Victor Frankl - Man’s Search for Meaning
The strongest bond among Hispanic-American families is typically between?
Parent and child
especially mother-son/father-son
Emphasis on contact, awareness, and experimentation is central to what type of therapy?
Gestalt
Which population yields better treatment outcomes from being matched with a therapist from the same race?
Hispanic clients
alloplastic vs. autoplastic approach
allo: changing environment
auto: changing oneself
Stages of Helms’ White Racial Identity Development Model
- Contact
- Disintegration
- Reintegration
- Pseudo-independence
- Immersion/Emersion
- Autonomy
Black American Racial Identity Model
(Cross)
- Pre-encounter
- Encounter
- Immersion/Emersion
- Internalization/Commitment
Triangulation
Child’s loyalty to one parent leads to rejection of the other parent
Individuation (Jung)
Integrating all parts of self to create a unique identity
What does Boyd-Franklin’s Multisystems Model emphasize?
Strengths
Detouring
When tension between husband and wife is reduced by paying extra attention to the child
Behavioral interventions + nicotine replacement is most effective in terms of short-term or long-term effects?
Long-term
What type of therapy focuses on the connection between the presenting problem and the client’s current relationships?
(Including the client/therapist relationship)
Interpersonal therapy
Most important factor in culturally sensitive therapy
Credibility!
Prerequisite for restructuring families (Minuchin)
Joining
Jay Haley is associated with which type of therapy?
Strategic Family Therapy
Adler’s Individual Psychology
Style of life!
Healthy style of life = personal achievement and care for others
Unhealthy style of life = overcompensating for inferiority and no care for others
Tx goal: move from unhealthy > healthy style of life
Troiden’s Homosexual Identity Development Model
- Sensitization
- Confusion
- Assumption
- Integration
Atkinson’s Racial/Cultural Identity Development Model
- Conformity
- Dissonance
- Resistance/Immersion
- Introspection
- Integrative Awareness
The 3 typical stages of group therapy development
- Orientation
- Conflict
- Cohesion
Strongest predictor of positive outcome in group therapy
Cohesion
Id
Have to satisfy needs
Superego
Rejects id’s impulses
You can’t be an animal
Ego
Tries to satisfy both id and superego by resolving the id’s needs realistically
Defense mechanism: sublimation
Turning an impulse into acceptable behavior
Interjection (Gestalt)
Adoptions values of the society as our own
Reality Therapy (Glasser)
People have basic needs and how they fulfill them either leads to a success or duality identity
Tx goal: help client take responsibility for actions and adopt appropriate ways to meet needs
W - current wants
D - what client is currently doing
E - evaluating behavior
P - plan of action
WDEP is associated with which type of therapy?
Reality therapy (Glasser)
Stages of moving from unconscious to conscious (CCIW)
Confrontation, clarification, interpretation, working through
Selligman is associated with which type of psychology?
Positive psychology
Which type of family therapy focuses on boundaries?
Structural Family Therapy
Which type of family therapy focuses on differentiation of self?
Extended Family Systems Therapy
Bowen is associated with which type of family therapy?
Extended systems
Minuchin is associated with which type of family therapy?
Structural
Which type of family therapy proposes that maladaptive behavior is the result of trying to gain control?
Strategic Family Therapy (Haley)
3 phases of Stress Inoculation Training
- Education
- Rehearsal
- Application
Cognitive distortion: arbitrary inference
Drawing a conclusion with no evidence
Ex. “Everyone hates me”
Cognitive distortion: selective abstraction
Only focusing on negative details of an event
Cognitive distortion: personalization
Attributing external events to self
Cognitive distortion: overgeneralization
Drawing a conclusion from ONE event and generalizing it to other events
Ex. “No one really talked to me at the party so all parties will be that way.”
Pleasure principle
Tension is avoided through immediate gratification (Id)
Freud’s 5 Pyschosexual Stages
- Oral
- Anal
- Phallic
- Latent
- Genital
Transference Neurosis
A transference reaction that becomes very intense during analysis
What is the view of transference in psychoanalytic therapy?
It is a sign that treatment is working
Adler’s Individual Psychology focuses on what factors?
Social
Self-actualization is associated with which type of therapy?
Humanistic
3 facilitators conditions for a parting tent to achieve self-actualization (Person-Centered Therapy)
- Unconditional positive regard
- Genuineness (warmth)
- Empathy
Phenomenology (subjective experience) is a focus of which type of therapy?
Person-centered
Interpersonal Therapy stresses interpersonal problems in what 4 domains?
- Grief
- Role transitions
- Interpersonal role disputes
- Interpersonal deficits
According to Interpersonal Therapy, distress is the result of what?
Lack of strong attachments in childhood
T/F: Reframing is used in Strategic Family Therapy to increase treatment compliance
True
Self-in-relation theory
(Derived from object-relations theory)
Gender differences are due to mother/child relationship
Nonsexist therapy differs from feminist therapy in what way?
It emphasizes individual factors for behavior change
Eysenck (1952) outcome study
Psychotherapy isn’t any more helpful than no treatment
Smith, Glass, & Miller (1980 meta-analysis) challenged Eysenck’s study by coming to what conclusion?
The average patient in therapy is better off than 80% of those not receiving treatment
Effect size of Smith, Glass, & Miller’s meta-analysis
.85
Howard et al. (1986) established a dose-dependent effect that showed _____% of patients showed marked improvement in 26 sessions.
75%
3 stages of Howard’s (1986) phase model
1. Remoralization (hope responds in first sessions) 2. Remediation (focus on symptoms) 3. Rehabilitation
Efficacy
Establishes if a treatment has an effect
Clinical trials
Effectiveness
Is treatment generalizable?
What is now considered the “fourth force” in psychology?
Multiculturalism
Who are the most frequent callers to suicide hotlines?
Young White females
What is the single most stressful aspect of a therapist’s work?
Lack of therapeutic respect
Who has the highest premature termination rates?
Black clients
Multicultural competence requires what 3 things?
Awareness, knowledge, skills
Who typically overutilizes mental health services?
Black individuals
Black families usually adhere to what type of family system?
Egalitarian
According to psychoanalytic theory, what is the function of defense mechanisms?
To keep impulses or wishes from reaching consciousness