Comp Exam Flashcards
periods of an irrepressible need to sleep, lapsing into sleep, or napping occurring within the same day
Narcolepsy
The assessment of couples and families has been influenced by the theoretical approach of many marriage and family therapists. This theoretical approach is
SYSTEMIC
Researcher things there is a difference between groups when there isn’t
false positive
Type I Error
Concept of Bowen
involvement of third person in a rx of a troubled dyad
Triangle
Stage of Group Formation
Intimacy stage; the group is beginning to build cohesion.
Norming stage
Concept of Bowen
1st born - power, authority, confidence/later born - oppression, rebellious, explorers, iconoclasts
Sibling Position
what an instrument measures & how well it does the task (including various forms)
Validity
Part of cluster B
pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity; manipulative; mood dysregulation; self-harm, suicide attempts
Borderling Personality D/O
degree to which the evidence indicated that the items adequately represent the intended behavior domain
E.g., does a test of a third-grade spelling contain words that educators would expect third graders to know how to spell
Content Related Validity
4 main categories of PTSD
- Intrusion Symptoms
- Avoidance Symptoms
- Alterations in Cognitions and Mood
- Alterations in Arousal and Reactivity
Severity based on number of symptoms for SUD
2-3 = Mild
4-5 = moderate
6+ = severe
Observational tasks and techniques in the assessment of couples and families tend to
Low reliability
Cluster A personality D/O (ODD/ECCENTRIC)
P S S
- Paranoid
- Schizoid
- Schizotypal
One of the General Ethical Principles
Fairness to all, equality, minimal bias, recognition of boundaries
Justice
Intervention of _____
Impact q’s for problem description→ take curious/non-blaming stance to have family members describe the problem, its causes, and effects
Relational Reframing/normalizing→change meanings about the problem as relational
CBT interventions: communications/assertiveness trainings, anger management, parenting
Connecting family w/external resources to ensure continued success.
Finding noble intentions behind the each family members (ex. Mother nagging about client’s grade → Mother cares about client’s future or for client to have what she didn’t have).
Functional Family Therapy
ROT Structural
Expert, slightly MANIPULATIVE ,
DIRECT but caring.
Therapist’s bx becomes part of the system in therapy.
Facilitate the RESTRUCTURING of the system.
Systems dealing with EMOTIONAL INTENSITY
- Smoke detector (amygdala)
- Watchtower (medial prefrontal cortex [MPC])
Principle of Group Dynamics: An informal leader generally arises when a team member shows leadership qualities that others see as critical for a specific situation.
Leadership Dynamic
Concepts of SFBT
Philosophy: If it isn’t broken, then don’t fix it.
Solutions are not necessarily related to the problem,
change is constant and inevitable
CLT’s are experts of their own lives
Problem vs. Solution talk
the increased probability that one partner’s negativity will instigate another’s negativity. This is the most consistent correlate of marital satisfaction and dissatisfaction.
Negative affect Reciprocity
Legal age of consent
12 years old
The parent is there sometimes but not all the time
Tries to get the parents attention and when they get the attention they don’t know how to calm down
“FEELING BUT NOT DEALING”
Constantly draw attention to themselves by crying, yelling, clinging or screaming.
They seem to have concluded thart unless they make a spectacle, nobody is going to pay attention to them
Are not comforted or relieved when their mother returns.
Anxious
Type of Group Leadership Style
the group leader’s efforts to facilitate group member’s expression of affect, values, and personal belief and attitudes
Emotional Stimulation
Interventions of Solution Focused
- Goal setting
- Exceptions
- Miracle Question
- Scaling questions
- Highlight Strengths
How many people in phenomenology research
5-25 people
Part of cluster B
pattern of excessive emotionality/attention seeking
Histrionic Personality D/O
Basic coping mechanism to reduce anxiety by isolating and repressing undesirable features of caregivers
Concept associated with ____
Splitting
Object relations/psychodynamic
main premise of attachment theory
Goal: increasing or maintaining proximity to attachment figures to feel safe and/or comforted
Ex. Kid playing on the playground peeking over his shoulder to make sure mom is watching. Once mom is gossiping with her friend, kid will walk over to make sure mom is still paying attention to him.
Similar to PTSD; lasting 3 days to 1 month; 9+ sxs from ANY 5 categories (intrusion, negative mood, dissociation, avoidance, and arousal)
Exposure to traumatic event (experienced, witnessed, learn of someone else, and repeated exposure)
o not through media
Acute Stress D/O
o Specially the frontal lobe. Youngest part of our brain.
o Rational thinking, impulse control, abstraction, symbolic ideas, planning, coordination with others, language
o The most complex structure.
o Not as active in times of threat.
o The newest part of the brain
Neocortex
Interventions of Experiential
H, H and N, F, 5, EE
- use of Humor
- Her and Now experiences
- Family Sculpting/ TOUCH
- 5 freedoms/ingredients of interaction
- Facilitating emotional expression
Conceptualization of Solution Focused
Focus on present/future except for the past in terms of exceptions
not focused on the past in terms of changing the past.
All clients have strengths and resources to change/cope with problems.
ROT of CBT
D C E
Directive, teaching family that emotional problems are caused by UNREALISTIC BELIEFS
coaching,
empathizing.
Type of delusion: the world is going to end tomorrow
Nihilistic
One of the General Ethical Principles
Do not harm
Nonmaleficence
Concept associated with EFT
How individuals process their experiences, their key attachment-oriented emotional responses
Intrapsychic
Stage of family life cycle
Exit of the first child/ dependent from intrafamilial world to larger world (school)
Shift from dependence to facilitation of beginning separations/ partial independence
Entrances
Stage of family life cycle
arrival and subsequent inclusion/incorporation of first child/ dependent member
Shift from interdependence to incorporation of dependence
Becoming 3
- physical safety of private information that is collected
- Maintain confidentiality of info & ensure integrity and availability of that info.
- There must be two locked mechanisms protecting client files.
Ex. Locked filing cabinet & locked office door.
Ex. Phone with passcode and locked filing cabinet
Security
_____ Stressor
predictable and unpredictable current events.
Ex. life threatening illness, divorce, death, job loss, etc.
Horizontal
historical Figures of Object Relations/Psychodynamic
Freud, Erikson, Ackerman, Scharff, Schnarch, Siegel, Bowlby
ittle by little shutting down
Person doesn’t have a sense of will
Dissociation is more common in babies and infants
Dopamine, Endorphins
Dissociative D/0
Depression
More common in females
Lower than normal heart rate
Dissociative Continums
Mandated reporting for child abuse
- Phone call immediately
- File report within 36 hours (including weekends)
Principle of Group Dynamics: Defined norms, established during the norming phase, assist the group in clarifying thinking and determining which behavior patterns are acceptable. Norms also keep the group functioning as a system and measure the performance of group members.
Group Norms
Type of Group Leadership Style
Concern for the well-being of group members and an investment in the leadership skills and interventions used
Caring
Clang
rhyming
Concept of Strategic
increasing family’s ability to love and nurture rather than dominate and control
Strategic Humanism
Neologisms
made up words
Oral Stage of Freuds PsychoSexual Stages
birth -18 mo. mouth is principal area of activity during infancy (weaning)
” Limbic system.
“ Thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala, and hippocampus
“ Manages the emotions
“ Emotional Regulation, Emotional Functioning
“ Monitors danger, discriminates between pleasurable and scary (amygdala)
“ How do we respond?
“ Contributes to memory (hippocampus)
The mammalian brain
Erickson stages of development
TM, ASD, IG, II, IR, II, GSA, ID
- trust & mistrust
- autonomy vs. shame, doubt
- initiative vs. guilt
- industry vs. inferiority
- identity vs. role confusion
- intimacy vs isolation
- generity vs. self absorption
- integrity vs. dispair
Ecological model of human development
- Microsystem (You)
- Mesosystem (Family Peers School)
- Exosystem (Society)
- Macrosystem (beliefs, culture)
- Chronosystem
o Doesn’t show social desire; focus on objects more so than people
o Deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple context:
- Failure to initiate or respond to social interactions
“ Nonverbal communicative behaviors
- Developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships
- Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities, at least 2:
- Repetitive motor movements, use of objects, or speech
- Insistence on sameness
- Highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal
- Hyper- or hyporeactivity to sensory input or unusual interest in sensory aspects of the environment
Autism Spectrum D/O
Underlying of _________
Family members often perpetuate problems by their actions (attempted solutions)– the problem is the problem maintenance (positive feedback escalations). Directives tailored to specific needs of a family can sometimes bring sudden/decisive change. People can resist change. People are ALWAYS communicating→ look at the process.
Strategic
Alogia
Speech difficulties
Concept associated with EFT
nag/withdrawal, pursuer/distancer, criticize/defend
Negative Interaction Style
If a person is the hospital for an extended period of time (18+), they are considered . . .
A dependent adult
pattern of social/interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by cognitive/perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior
-Magical thinking, odd beliefs/thinking/speech/bx
Schizotypal Personality d/o
Concepts of Contextual
R L L L E D
-Relational Effects
Focuses on roles of connectedness
- Legacy
we behave in ways we have been programed to
behave - Loyalty
when attachment in a relationship is preferred over
another - Ledgers
accounting, who still owes - Entitlement
amount of merit based on persons trustworthyness
-Destructive Entitlement
you were given a bad ledger so its okay for you to hand
it to the next person
Concept of Bowen
emotional/affective concept that refers to a person’s ability to separate intrapersonal and interpersonal distress
Differentiation
Concerns the ability to generalize the results of the research to the population of interest
External Validity
Underlying of ____
It is a contextually based behavioral treatment designed to help distressed couples achieve improved satisfaction and adjustment.
Behavior Exchange (BE) seeks to increase the ratio of positive to negative couple behaviors and is intended to produce rapid decreases in couple distress " Skills-based, change-oriented treatment that relies on two primary intervention components: (1) behavior exchange (BE) and (2) communication and problem-solving training (CPT). " Effective in short term, a humanistic component emphasizing acceptance of one's partner to improve long-term outcomes.
Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy
ROT Solution Focused
Offers hope, cheerleader, non-directive, client-centered
Blind Agression
adrenaline
ADHD, PTSD, CONDUCT DISORDER,
More common in Males
Higher than Normal heart rate
Arousal continnums
Ethical decision making
Law Trumps Ethics Trumps Morals
What is the primary treatment goal when seeing a couple experiencing DV?
Violence Prevention
Stages of Group Formation and Treatment (FSNPM)
- Forming
- Storming
- Norming
- Performing
- Mourning (Adjourning)
mental images of self/others built from experience/expectation
Concept associated with ____ theory
Internal Objects
Object relations/psychodynamic
Erickson stages of development (young adult, 18-35) love " Care about someone without losing sense of self in the process " Acceptance of self → success " Lack of self-acceptance → isolation
Intimacy vs. Isolation
Conceptualization of Experiential
Help individuals and families get a sense of their wholeness, become more fully evolved as human beings.
The problem is not the problem; the way people COPE with problems is the problem.
Expanding the individual’s experience opens them up to their experiences and helps to improve functioning of the family
Ordeal
Part of strategic
make sxs harder to keep than to give up
do something they dont want to do but will benefit them in the end
Concept associated with EFT
anger, frustration, withdrawal
Secondary Emotion
Part of Gottman’s 4 horseman
righteous indignation. Defensiveness usually leads to blaming.
Defensiveness
Independent Variable
cause, predictor, controlled, or manipulated by researcher
Ex. HOW LONG YOU SLEEP (IV) affects your test score (DV)
Researcher manipulated the participants hours of sleep
quickly assesses whether stimuli means danger (smoke detector)
Amygdala
Accelerator. Arousal, activates fight/flight response
Sympathetic Nervous System
giving the identical instrument twice to the same group of individuals and comparing the performance on both occasions
Test-retest reliability
Stages of family life cycle (C B En Ex Ex B En)
- Coupling
- Becoming Three
- Entrances
- Expansion
- Exits
- Becoming Smaller/Extended
- Endings
Concept of ______
Decrease antisocial behavior and other clinical problems; improve family functioning in family relations; improve functioning in school/work; minimize out-of-home placements, including incarceration, residential tx, and hospitalization.
Multi Systemic
Historical figures of STRATEGIC
Jay Haley, Madanes
Type of Group Leadership Style
Manner is which group leader helps members develop understanding of not only themselves but also of one another in the group
Meaning-Attribution
ROT of Experiential
- Therapist is the most important TOOL .
- Be congruent with actions and self.
- Uses own personality.
- We grow as our clients do. Must be open/spontaneous, empathic, directive. INCREASE STRESS w/in family.
- Teach family EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION in order to CONVEY THEIR FEELINGS.
Conceptualization of ____ Listen for problem-saturated stories, dominant alternative and gender discourses, and unique and sparkling events. Help clients become aware of how these different discourses are impactful, increase sense of agency, and enact preferred realities.
Narrative
Conceptualization of ____
assess problem behavior and how it functions in the family, assess the function of the symptoms, the interdependence of family members, community and cultural contexts, relational hierarchy (parent/adolescent up/down)
Functional Family Therapy
When the ____ and ____ have been BLOCKED, implicit memories DO NOT become explicit
Hippocampus; Dorsal Lateral Prefrontal Cortex
Exceptions of Confidentiality
- Hurting Self
- Hurting Others
- Child Abuse
- Elder Abuse
If an instrument measures consistently but does not measure what it was designed to measure the instrument is
Reliable not valid
CBT Interventions
- Creating contingency/token economies/Operant conditioning
- reward behavior in the direction of the desired behavior
- Parent training
- use behavioral concepts of reinforcement and consistency to help improve parental efficiency
- Compliments
- coach families to increase expressions of appreciation to increase positive reinforcement
- Challenging irrational beliefs, thought records
- Behavioral homework tasks
- Socratic questions
- open ended questions to encouraged CLT to question own beliefs
Attachment quality effect on Information processing
Mediated by IWM
Secure attachment helps to have a better assessment of danger
Tendency to process information in a way that confirms IWM
For people with severe trauma history, the world is filled with danger
Emotional dysregulation (both excessive activation or detachment/dissociation) can affect processes like memory, planning, openness to new evidence, etc. (implicit memories, the abuse did happen)
Piagets Stages of Cognitive Development (SPCF)
- Sensori-Motor
- Pre Operational
- Concrete Operational
- Formal Operation
Conceptualization of Object Relations/Psychodynamic
- increase autonomy by making unconscious processes conscious.
- Decrease interactions based on projections.
- Increase capacity for intimacy without loss of self (fusion w/ others).
- All human beings have the capacity for self-actualization.
when parents show understanding and accepting
Concept associated with ____ theory
Mirroring
Object relations/psychodynamic
SEVERE, UNESCAPABLE
if we can’t get away, Unescapable, doesn’t make sense to fight
We feel as little as possible and spend little energy
Reduced metabolism, heart rate plunges, gut empties, low air, brain shuts down
Least present as possible
We are conserving energy to possible fight after the danger is over
Other people and ourselves cease to matter, awareness shuts down, and we might not even register pain.
Ex. Cat and mouse, the mouse gets caught and shuts down, but when the cat lets go he has the energy to run away
Freeze or collapse
Anal Stage of Freuds PsychoSexual Stages
18 mo. -3 /4 yrs. toilet training, restricting & expelling feces
What test can you administer with a masters degree?
Both A and B
Avolition
Lack of interest
Gottmans’s “Four Horsemen”
C D S C
Predictor of Divorce
- Criticism
- Defensiveness
- Stonewalling
- Contempt
Concept of Strategic
therapist takes hopeless stance to allow the client to be motivated to find hope
One-down stance
1 MANIC episode and NOT major depressive episode
- Manic episode: elevated mood at least lasting 1 week, can include psychosis, micro depressions, can be preceded/followed by hypomanic episode (4 days)/major depressive episode (2 weeks)
- Most popular delusion: GUILT
- Mood disturbance is severe and causes social/occ fx impairment
- rapid cycling: more than 4 episodes per year
Bipolar I
I know you are not going to come
Why am I going to cry if you’re not going to come?
They don’t cry when their mother goes away, and they ignore her when she comes back
Increase heart rate, constant state of hyperarousal.
DEALING BUT NOT FEELING”
Avoidant
Attachment quality effect on communication
Securely attached people are more able to:
o Read vocal and facial cues from others without being over sensitive or dismissive
oSending cues to others as
well
o Reach out
o Clearly communicate their needs
o Trust
o Be empathic, attune to others
o Be assertive,
o express themselves (opinions, interests)
o Problem-solve and collaborate with others
Stage of Group Formation
Separation stage; occurs when members terminate, especially long-term members; the facilitator gets a new job and the entire group ends; in substance abuse groups this phase needs to be handled well, as many clients relapse around issues of loss; the leader may need to be quite active in this phase-facilitating feelings around separation.
Mourning (adjourning) Stage
Conceptualization of Structural
Problems reside within a FAMILY STRUCTURE (not necessarily caused by the structure).
Changing the structure CHANGES the experience the client has.
Children’s problems are often related to the BOUNDARY between the parents (marital vs. parental subsystem) and the boundary between parents and children.
One of the General Ethical Principles
Commitment to keep promises, uphold truth, and maintain loyalty; confidentiality
Fidelity
What happens to the MPFC when the peritraumtic stress is high?
The MPFC is NOT activated and we CAN NOT take a second look at the info sent from the thalamus. We just continue in fight or flight mode
3 clusters of personality d/p
O/E
D/E/E
A/F
Cluster A: Odd/Eccentric
Cluster B: Dramatic/Emotional/Erratic
Cluster C: Anxious Fearful
1+ delusions from 1+months
- No impairment in functioning
- Delusion types: erotomanic, grandiose, jealous, persecutory, somatic
Delusion D/O
Concepts of _____
Dominant discourses→ beliefs, values, and practices based on dominant social culture
alternative/local discourses→ story that’s there but not noticed
Deconstruction→ take apart problem saturated story in order to externalize and reauthor it
problem-saturated stories→ bogs client down, allowing problem to exist
Unique outcomes→ exceptions; pieces of the deconstructed story
Narrative
Stage of Child Development
Babies begin to understand that other people share their thoughts and emotions with one another. Object permanency.
9-12 months
Starts at 18-24 when hippocampus starts developing
Conscious memory that we can recall or retrieve, more aware of it, different level of awareness
These memories include a sense of self and a sense of context
Explicit Memories
1 day to 1 month
-1 positive sx: Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, or grossly disorganized/catatonic
Brief Psychotic D/O
Ethical decision making 8 steps
P I G P A C E D
- Describe the parameters (whats going on)
- define the potential ISSUES (what issue am i dealing with)
- Consult guidelines (legal, ethical, moral)
- Evaluate welfare of all PARTIES involved (who do i keep safe?)
- Generate ALTERNATIVES
- Enumerate CONSEQUENCES (PROS/CONS)
- Present any evidence
- make a decision
negative symptoms of Schizophrenia
(things it takes away) - 5 things
- flat affect (lack of emotional expression)
- Avolition (lack of interest/enthusiasm)
- Anhedonia (seeming lack of interest in the world)
- Alogia (speech difficulties)
- Asociality (social/relational difficulties).
Bowen Intervention
stories about other families that are similar to the family - gives distance from problem to see more clearly
Displacement stories
o When amygdala gets info from thalamus it does a quick check for danger
“ Ex. Hear a loud noise, think it could be danger, first response is shock, comes from amygdala comes quickly from little information we have, but then we see outside and someone just dropped something
Low Road
Principle of Group Dynamics: Evidence shows that there is no quality of the group relationship for the therapist school of thought; “Presence of positive attachment to benevolent, supportive, and reassuring authority figure”.
Absence of a positive bond renders technical interventions ineffective or harmful.
_______broadly defined as; the result of all the forces acting on all the members such that they remain in the group.
A potent therapeutic force and considered a precondition for other therapeutic factors to function optimally.
Sharing one’s inner world and seeing acceptance by others
Assists with group members with reinforcing trust-self disclosure- empathy-acceptance-trust
Strengthens interpersonal skills that can be long lasting after group adjourning
Group cohesiveness
3 primary tasks of EFT
C M A
A F E
Rest Inter
Task 1: Creating and maintaining alliance
Task 2: Assessing and formulating emotion
Task 3: Restructuring interaction
Part of Ecological Model
Refers to the institutions and groups that most immediately and directly impact the child’s development including: family, school, religious institutions, neighborhood, and peers.
Microsystem
Freuds PsychoSexual Stages
O,A,P,L,G
- oral
- anal
- phalic
- latency
- genital
Stage of family life cycle
Entrance of first child/dependent member into the community
Support of facilitation of continuing separations/ independence
Expansion
Historical figure of Contextual
Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy: studied psychodynamic then made his own
Types of data
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- interval
- Ratio
What should be included in informed consent ?
- treatment process and procedures (what im going to do to you)
- potential risks and benefits of treatment
- here freely and without influence
- have power to withdraw
- fees
- Limits of confidentiality
contextual concept
you were given a bad ledger and it wasn’t fair so it’s ok to hand it to the next person by acting out/neglecting important others
Destructive Entitlement
Concept of Bowen
inability to separate emotions from cognition
Emotional Fusion
Two primary intervention components of Integrative behavioral couple therapy
- Behavioral Exchange
2. Communication and problem solving training (CPT)
Empathic attunement
ATTUNES to each partner’s emotions
Eating non-nutritional/nonfood substances.
Pica
Historical Figures of Bowen
Murry Bowen
Carter, Fogarty, Friedman, Guerin, Kerr, McGoldrick, Papero
Erickson stages of development
(middle adult-35-55/65) care
Working to establish stability → generativity
Generativity vs. Self-Absorption
Bowen Intervention
encourage clt to “go home” and experience their nuclear family w/out emotional reactivity by researching cutoffs, finding lost relatives, identifying triangles, and identifying habitual family interactions
Going home againg
Cluster A symptoms of Schizophrenia - 5 things
- Delusions
- Hallucination
- Disorganized Speech
- Abnormal Motor Bx
- Negative sxs
Main concept of integrative behavioral couple therapy
Acceptance (EMOTIONAl acceptance)
Couples who succeed often make some CHANGE to accommodate the needs of the other
Bowen Intervention
therapist uses self in the face of family projecting process to dissolve dysfunctional triangles and reduce fusion
Detriangulation