Clinical Psychology Flashcards
What are c’mon strategies used by therapists using structured learning therapy?
Social skills training Modeling Role playing Skill instruction Performance appraisal
What is the difference in the use if transference between brief and long-term psychodynamic therapy?
Brief discourages a full-scale transference neurosis. Positive transference is seen as an important contributor to therapy process.
Abnormal regulation of melatonin levels is associated with which disorder?
Mood disorder with seasonal pattern bc it tends to respond to light therapy and melatonin levels are affected by lgbt-dark cycles
What symptom of depression are older adults least likely to demonstrate?
Sadness
What did Eysenck’s 1952 study find?
72% of untreated subjects improved vs 64% of subjects of eclectic and 44% of psychoanalytic. Results challenged the effectiveness of psychotherapy tx.
What therapy is Bowen known for?
Extended family therapy…rooted in psychoanalytic therapy
Characteristics of successful smoking cessation
Age 35 or older
Married or living with partner
Later age when started
Risk factors for smoking relapse
Young
Single
Early onset
According to RET, pathology is created and maintained by…
Biological predisposition and early life experiences. Symptoms are maintained by self-indoctrination-the internalization of attitudes of parents and others
What is the focus of logotherapy?
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life and we have freedom to find meaning in what we do and what we experience
What is the focus of Glasser’s reality therapy?
Current issues and current problems
What is the focus of solution focused therapy?
Here and now orientation on identifying solutions to problems
Focus of Kelly’s personal construct therapy?
Combines cognitive, behavioral, and humanistic concepts and focuses on the impact of the individual’s perspective on his/her experience of the world
Primary goal of gestalt therapy
Awareness
Primary goal of rational emotive therapy
Giving up irrational beliefs and ideas
Primary goal of psychoanalysis
Understanding of underlying intrapsychic conflicts
Primary goal of client-centered therapy
Congruence between self and experience
Self-in-relation theory suggests:
One’s self depends on how connects to others.
Self is viewed as progressing from infantile dependence towards a mature state of interdependence
What are scales 1,2,3 on MMPI
Scale 1 - hypochondriasis
Scale 2 - depression
Scale 3 - hysteria
A defensive pattern on the MMPI is obtained when:
The F scale score is significantly lower than scores on the L and K scales
A psychotic V profile is indicated on the MMPI when
Scale 7 is lower than than scores on scales 6 and 8
A passive aggressive profile is indicated when
Scale 5 is lower than 4 and 6
A conversion V profile is indicated when
Scale 2 is lower than 1 and 3
What is a “folie a deux”?
Shared psychotic disorder. An individual has developed a delusional system as a consequence of a close relationship with another person, the “primary case”, who already has an established delusion.
Multi-systemic therapy
Goal-oriented approach with intensive family and community-based tx that addresses the multiple determinants and factors in each youths social network that are contributing to his or her antisocial behavior. Home based care. Approx. 4 months.
Naikan Therapy
Psychology of reflection - based in clients asking themselves three questions: what have I received from? What have I given to? What troubles or difficulties have I caused to?
-increases awareness of the role you play in the relationship or situation, the amount of support received and an appreciation for others
Morita therapy
Called psychology of action
Emphasis on learning to accept the internal fluctuations of thoughts and feelings and ground behavior in reality and the purpose of movement. Focus on what is and is not controllable. Emotions are valid, pain is inevitable, and there is no attempt to control feelings
Success identify and failure identity are associated with what therapy?
Glasser’s reality therapy
- if able to fulfill needs for survival, power, belonging, freedom, and fun without harming self or other then one will develop a success identity
Personality disorders with high genetic component
Antisocial
Paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal
Wolfgang Kohler is associated with
Insight learning or “a-ha experience” - a sudden novel solution to the problem. Insight learning cannot be explained by traditional heaviest theories if learning based on reinforcement and associations between stimuli.
Chimpanzee and two stick study
Rationalist cognitive therapy vs constructivist cognitive therapy
Rationalist - irrationality is primary source of neurotic pathology
Constructivist - based in more complex and abstract assumptions in which unconscious, developmental, and interaction all processes are emphasized
What is introspection according to Gestalt therapy
Involves absorbing the values or behaviors of others, including the larger society, without really understanding it assimilating those values or behaviors. The person does or believes things that are not reflective of self.
According to Berry, marginalization is characterized by
A member of a minority group that does not identify strongly with either minority or mainstream culture
