Competence Courage Change Test 1 Flashcards
T/F: Searching for and finding our client’s underlying healthy striving, their Courage, is a critical task
FALSE- competence is the critical task
The striving, hopeful impulses towards ___ and ____ that drive people every bit as strongly as the psychopathological motives are usually ignored
MASTERY and BELONGING
4 components to the heart of the competence approach?
- Searching for healthy underlying strivings
- Develop a clear vision
- Proactive steps
- Partnership
T/F Attending to people’s strengths without recognizing and addressing their limitations and problems is unrealistic and unhelpful
TRUE
A competence model suggests that we work from an integrated view of what 2 things?
- people’s aspirations and their shortfalls
- Understanding their inadequacies in light of their hope
or integrating pathology and health
Creating a cision with clients means helping them develop and integrated ____ of their ____ ______
redirection of their underlying motivation
Explain the Hero’s Journey
The Hero’s Journey is the quest to “slay the dragon” coming back fundamentally changed… or in other words, it is a metaphor for the courage to undertake internal transformation
WHat is the difference between a healing mindset and a fixing mindset?
Fixing is the focus on changing the pattern, while healing is a focus on helping the individual
What is the difference between effective and ineffective transactions?
The nature of the individual’s use of self…
The sense of ____ produces hope because it reduces the sense of ____ and makes the future seem more manageable
efficacy; powerlessness
T/F Those with strong self-efficacy figure out way sof exercising some measure of control in environments containing limited opportunities and many constraints
TRUE
Explain learned helplessness
Little or no belief that you can do anything that will make a difference
What are the 4 main components of resilience?
- reduction of risk impact
- reduction of negative chain reactions
- sense of self esteem and self efficacy
- taking advantage of possibilities
Competence is the capacity to ___ everything you have, including the ____ that drives symptoms and probllems, to realize your deepest and best ____
USE everything
Including the ENERGY
best STRIVINGS
The competent individual is one who is able to make use of _______ and ____ ____ to achieve a good developmental outcome
environmental and personal resources
A proactive process of moving toward change occurs when people…. (3 things)
- feel competent
- have a vision
- are courageous
3 errors of ineffective therapy
- lack of theme and focus
- Strong theme and focus but no push for change
- produces change that is not essential to the people involved
______, not just insight produces change. _____ must be paired with appropriate action
Movement…. awareness
______ represents the awareness of what needs to be changed. ______ ____ engages commitment and courage to change
Vision; Proactive move
Miracle Question
How would you behave if the problem have by some miracle resolved itself?
T/F Therapists should focus on a client’s strengths and weaknesses and how they fit together
TRUE
Problems of deficit-based model
- confuse patterns of dysfunction with their basic selves
- Seeing psychopathological events as fixed, rather than process
- Does not suggest a way out of pathological pattern
T/F Focusing primarily on dysfunction provides us with a map for moving forward
FALSE- it does not
T/F People can make needed changes based on their resources within their system
FALSE- themselves and their system
Which is more helpful to focus on, the healthy or pathological?
Both, being respectful of all components of behavior
A competence approach enables the therapist to challenge a person’s “twisted version of health” without fundamentally ____ or _____ the individual. One can challenge the _____ without challenging the ____
labeling or condemning
Pattern; person
4 reasons to form a collaboration or partnership
- provides a reality check
- provides courage
- provides motivation
- Enriches success and failure
3 ways partners bring out hte best in each other
- appreciation
- encouragement
- challenge
____-_____ requires a strong level of engagement
Health-Hunting
T/F One of the most painful realizations of a career in family therapy is that we do not really have much power or control
TRUE
Explain the concept of healthy indifference
engaging clients actively and intensely without being so invested in the outcome that we rise and fall with them
T/F: In a bad partnership, we pull each other out of the ruts and keep the process going
False- that is characteristic of a GOOD partnership
As therapists, we believe strongly int he need for therapists to _____, _____, and _______ one another
support, challenge, and encourage
As therapists, we need to expand our experience of _____, _____ and _____
openness, creativity, and partnership
“Something to ___, someone to __ __ ____, and something to ___ ________ __”
do… do it with…. look forward to
T/F A vision of how we want our lives to process is not vital to how we conduct ourselves day to day
FALSE- it IS vital
We are more interesting in an individual’s sense of ______
Possibility
T/F We want to expand people’s repertoires more than we necessarily want to add a particular skill
TRUE
In therapy, a vision of where a client wants to move is not crucial to both the client’s and the therapist’s conduct
FALSE- it IS crucial
3 important implications regarding the need for creating a vision in therapy
- positive vision can help cope with crisis
- vision of oneself in the future provides cues about path and/or methods of getting there
- Sense of what is possible acts as an incentive for present and future behavior
T/F people with no vision of their future cannot use the vision to organize their present behavior
TRUE
T/F Developing, supporting, and expanding people’s vision mechanism and their sense of what is possible is not a critical compnent of therapy
FALSE
To be useful, hope needs to be ____ with a somewhat realistic assessment of what is possible
BALANCED
Therapists must strike a balance between ____ and _____
Hope and reality
In helping people change, it is critical to understand what 3 things
- what thye are hoping for
- their sense of possibilities
- their strengths/possibilities they feel they can call upon to get them there
T/F A principal task of the therapist is being able to compare his vision for a case to that of the client adn to see which is more appropriate and have more possiblity
TRUE
The client’s _____ is the underlying healthy “____ ____”, that is, their healthy impulses toward ___ and _____
person… “real self”…. mastery and belonging
Therapists must distinguish between the client’s _____ and ____
person and pattern
T/F Getting stuck in the ruts does not affect the person’s vision
FALSE- it DOES affect vision
T/F successful therapy depends on the therapist’s vision being less limited than the client’s
TRUE
Creating _______ in therapy depends on having the ability to ______ multiple pathways to a client’s desired future
movement….. envision
T/F The therapist’s job is always to become more respectful of the family’s struggles
FALSE- sometimes it is also to challenge how they conceptualize their struggles and reorient their vision
A vision depends on __________ and ______ the past and the patterns of dysfunction; it depends on testing the clinet’s capacity for _____ ______, and findin gout what htey are capable of and have done before; it depends very strongly on ______
understanding and accepting…
proactive behavior….
Partnership
Courage
The attitude or response of family and dealing with anything recognized as dangerous, difficult or painful, instead of withdrawing from it
Encourage literally means
To provide with courage
T/F Greatest single advantage of experience as a therapist may be the ability to move more quickly to the place where courage fails the client and the fearful pattern takes over
True
It is not feelings that get us in trouble, but ____ of those feelings and of suffering we imagine will follow if we realyl let our guard down and experience them
Fear
2 kinds of courage
- courage to face true feelings (positive and negative)
2. Courage to change
T/F Fear dissipates as one develops competence around fearful areas
TRUE
Courage grows _______
Incrementally
Our _______ is less often a failure of _____ than a reflection of our not having enough _____
stuckness… technique….. courage.
Countertransferrence
Working with our issues instead of the client’s
T/F in general, the rule for hterapists has been to quash their countertransference feelings and to react as little as possible when they get near these intense feelings
TRUE
It is not the _____ _____ that makes the difference as much as the ______ ____ of people who can encourage each other and risk the journey together
cognitive match…. emotional pairing
T/F Courage and Competence rise and fall together
TRUE
2 fundamental aspects to the process of encouraging
- acceptance
2. action
T/F People’s ineffective or unsuccessful behavior is most accessible when they realize that the therapists interest in it is benign and designed to promote acceptance more than criticism or blame
TRUE
T/F The pattern is interrupted and the sense of hopelessness cannot be diminished when one acts on a new awareness and goes from altered idea to altered behavior
FALSE it can be interrupted and diminished
Courage in therapy depends on the therapist’s _______ to _____________ and at least as much of herself
willingness to ask much of her client
