Clinical Flashcards
Freudian Psychoanalysis
goal of superego
The Superego tries to squash the Id
Freudian Psychoanalysis
Personality Theory
Life is made up of drives, when the Id cannot fulfill those drives, one feels tension.
The Ego operates by the reality principle
Freudian Psychoanalysis
View of Maladaptive Behavior
mania
repression of libidinal urges
Freudian Psychoanalysis
View of Maladaptive Behavior
phobias
- phobias are anxious displacement
Freudian Psychoanalysis
View of Maladaptive Behavior
- unconscious, childhood conflicts
Freudian Psychoanalysis
Therapy Goals and Techniques
In psychoanalysis, the analysis of free associations, dreams, resistances, and transferences consists of a combination of
- confrontation
- clarification
- interpretation
- working through
Freudian Analysis
- confrontation
- clarification
- [ ]
- working through
interpretation
Freudian Psychoanalysis
Pithy Summary
pessimistic, deterministic, focused on past events
Freudian Psychoanalysis
Defense Mechanisms
According to Freud, when the ego is unable to ward off danger (anxiety) through rational, realistic means, it may resort to one of its defense mechanisms (e.g., repression, reaction formation) which share two characteristics: They operate on an unconscious level and they serve to deny or distort reality.
Adler’s Individual Psychology
Summary
Adler’s personality theory and approach to therapy stress the unity of the individual and the belief that behavior is purposeful and goal-directed.
Adler’s Individual Psychology
Key Concepts
Key concepts are inferiority feelings, striving for superiority, and style of life (which unifies the various aspects of an individual’s personality).
Adler’s Individual Psychology
View of Maladaptive Behavior
Maladaptive behavior represents a mistaken style of life that reflects inadequate social interest.
Adler’s Individual Psychology
Therapy Goals and Techniques
teleological
- Adler’s teleological approach regards behavior as being largely motivated by a person’s future goals rather than determined by past events.
- understand style of life and its consequences
- lifestyle investigation
- “basic mistakes”
- distorted beliefs
Adler’s Individual Psychology
Pithy Summary
Less focused on unconscious, focused on the future
Jung’s Analytical Psychotherapy
Personality Theory
Analytical psychotherapy views behavior as being determined by both conscious and unconscious factors, including the collective unconscious which is the repository of latent memory traces that have been passed down from one generation to the next.
Jung’s Analytical Psychotherapy
View of Maladaptive Behavior
Messages from the unconscious to the individual that something is awry
Jung’s Analytical Psychotherapy
Archetypes
Included in the collective unconscious are archetypes (primordial images) that cause people to experience certain phenomena in universal ways.
Jung’s Analytical Psychotherapy
Therapy Goals and Techniques
- Therapeutic strategies include the interpretation of dreams and transferences (which reflects projections of both the personal and collective unconscious).
Jungian
individuation
integration of the conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche that occurs in the later years and leads to a unique identity and the development of wisdom.
Jung’s Analytical Psychotherapy
Pithy Summary
optimistic and future-based
Object Relations Theory
Personality Theory
Mahler’s version of object relations theory focuses on the processes by which an infant assumes his/her own physical and psychological identity, and her model of early development involves several phases. The development of object relations occurs during the separation-individuation phase, which begins at four to five months of age.
Object Relations Theory
View of Maladaptive Behavior
According to Mahler, adult psychopathology can be traced to problems that occurred during separation-individuation.
Object Relations Theory
Therapy Goals and Techniques
- expose maladaptive relationship dynamics into consciousness
Object Relations Theory
Projective Identification
a defense mechanism in which the individual projects qualities that are unacceptable to the self onto another person, and that person introjects the projected qualities and believes him/herself to be characterized by them appropriately and justifiably.
Object Relations Theory
Splitting
the failure in a person’s thinking to bring together the dichotomy of both perceived positive and negative qualities of something into a cohesive, realistic whole.
Object Relations Theory
introject
an internalized representation
Person Centered Therapy (Rogers)
Personality Theory
Rogers’ person-centered therapy is based on the assumptions that people possess an inherent ability for growth and self-actualization
Person Centered Therapy (Rogers)
View of Maladaptive Behavior
Maladaptive behavior occurs when “incongruence between self and experience” disrupts this natural tendency.
Person Centered Therapy (Rogers)
incongruence leads to
incongruence → stress → defensive maneuvers
Person Centered Therapy (Rogers)
Therapy Goals and Techniques
The therapist’s role is to provide the client with three facilitative conditions (empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard) that enable the client to return to his/her natural tendency for self-actualization.
Gestalt Therapy
Personality Theory
- Self- creative aspect
- Self-image- hinders growth and self-actualization
Gestalt Therapy
View of Maladaptive Behavior
- abandonment of self in favor of self-image (boundary disturbance)
Gestalt Therapy
View of Transference
- counterproductive
- helping the client recognize the difference between his/her “transference fantasy” and reality.
Gestalt Therapy
Therapy Goals and Techniques
Gestalt therapy views “awareness” (a full understanding of one’s thoughts, feelings, and actions in the here-and-now) as the primary curative factor and defines
Existential Therapy
View of Maladaptive Behavior
dealing with questions of death and existence, one naturally feels existential anxiety. which has to be processed or it will lead to neurotic anxiety
concerns: death, freedom, existential isolation, and meaninglessness.
Existential Therapy
Therapy Goals and Techniques
- Therapist-client relationship important tool
- paradoxical intention- exaggerated and humerous
Reality Therapy (Glasser)
Personality Theory
- Glasser’s reality therapy is based on choice theory, which assumes that people are responsible for the choices they make and focuses on how people make choices that affect the course of their lives.
Reality Therapy (Glasser)
View of Maladaptive Behavior
result of individual choices - people “depress themselves” in order to fulfill a need
Reality Therapy (Glasser)
Therapy Goals and Techniques
- focuses on current behavior and beliefs
- use of judgmental statements
Personal Construct Theory (Kelly)
Personality Theory
assumes that a person’s psychological processes are determined by the way he or she “construes” (perceives, interprets, and predicts) events, with construing involving the use of personal constructs, which are bipolar dimensions of meaning (e.g., happy/sad, competent/incompetent) that begin to develop in infancy and may operate on an unconscious or conscious level.
Personal Construct Theory (Kelly)
Therapy Goals and Techniques
- self-characterization sketch “describe yourself as someone who knows you well would”
- “try on” other constructs
Personal Construct Theory (Kelly)
View of Maladaptive Behavior
- rejects medical model
- says distress is poor personal constructs
- anxiety, etc, comes from a lack of fit of constructs
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
Pithy Summary
psychodynamic + attachment
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
attachment analogs
Interpersonal challenges are traced to early life attachment issues
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
Originally Developed For
- was originally developed as a treatment for depression
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
Therapy Goals and Techniques
- psycho-ed, hope, modeling/role-playing
- improvement of interpersonal functioning
Solution Focused Therapy
Miracle, Exception, Scaling
- miracle - “you go to sleep and you’re better- what would have changed?
- exception - can you think of a time in the last week when you did not have the problem (or it wasn’t as bad)
- scaling questions- on a scale from 1-10 how did you feel, how motivated, etc
Solution-Focused Therapy
View of Maladaptive Behavior
irrelevant
Solution Focused Therapy
Pithy Summary
“you get more of what you talk about” so talk about the solution
Solution Focused Therapy
Therapy Goals and Techniques
3 special questions
- client is expert, therapist is consultant
- miracle, exception, scaling questions
- directive - gives the client a task
Transtheoretical Model
Stages of Change
pre-contemplation ➡ contemplation ➡ preparation ➡ action ➡ maintenance ➡ termination
Transtheoretical Model
Therapy Goals and Techniques
Guide clients through states of change
- decisional balance
- temptation (to engage in problem behavior)
- self-efficacy
Transtheoretical Model
View of Maladaptive Behavior
irrelevant
Motivational Interviewing
Therapy Goals (OARS)
The specific techniques of motivational interviewing are open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summaries (OARS).
Motivational Interviewing
Original Design
- Motivational interviewing was developed specifically for clients who are ambivalent about changing their behavior and combines the transtheoretical (stages of change) model with Rogers’ client-centered therapy and the Bandura concept of self-efficacy
- designed for smokers
Influences on Family Therapy
General Systems Theory (Summary)
interacting components are best understood in their context
Influences on Family Therapy
Homeostasis
problems go away, they will re-appear elsewhere
Cybernetics
negative feedback loop
reduces deviation, maintains status quo
Cybernetics
positive feedback loop
amplifies deviation, disrupts the system
Influences on Family Therapy
double-bind
two negatives, conflicting negative injunctions, one verbal one physical, no way to get help, tied with schizophrenia
Communication/Interaction Family Therapy
Pithy Summary
“people are always communicating, even when they’re doing nothing”
Communication/Interaction Family Therapy
Report/Command
communication consists of report/command
- report is info
- command is non-verbal
- contradiction between them is when issues arise
Communication/Interaction Family Therapy
Symmetrical vs. Complementary Communication
- symmetrical - equality between communicators
- complementary- reflect inequality (dominant + submissive)
Communication/Interaction Family Therapy
View of Maladaptive Behavior
- circular model of causality
- blaming/criticizing/mind-reading/over-generalizing
Communication/Interaction Family Therapy
Therapy Goals/Techniques
- direct strategies
- paradoxical intervention (prescribing the symptom)
- reframing
Extended Family Systems Therapy (Bowen)
Pithy Summary
differentiation - good
triangulation - bad
Extended Family Systems Therapy (Bowen)
differentiation
separation of emotional and intellectual functioning
Extended Family Systems Therapy (Bowen)
emotional triangle
bringing in a third person to decrease instability and reduce tension (maldaptive, “triangulation”)
Extended Family Systems Therapy (Bowen)
view of maladaptive behavior
result of multigenerational transmission