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Competence Courage Change Test 1 Flashcards

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T/F: Searching for and finding our client’s underlying healthy striving, their Courage, is a critical task

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FALSE- competence is the critical task

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The striving, hopeful impulses towards ___ and ____ that drive people every bit as strongly as the psychopathological motives are usually ignored

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MASTERY and BELONGING

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4 components to the heart of the competence approach?

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  1. Searching for healthy underlying strivings
  2. Develop a clear vision
  3. Proactive steps
  4. Partnership
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T/F Attending to people’s strengths without recognizing and addressing their limitations and problems is unrealistic and unhelpful

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TRUE

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A competence model suggests that we work from an integrated view of what 2 things?

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  1. people’s aspirations and their shortfalls
  2. Understanding their inadequacies in light of their hope
    or integrating pathology and health
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Creating a cision with clients means helping them develop and integrated ____ of their ____ ______

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redirection of their underlying motivation

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Explain the Hero’s Journey

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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

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WHat is the difference between a healing mindset and a fixing mindset?

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Fixing is the focus on changing the pattern, while healing is a focus on helping the individual

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What is the difference between effective and ineffective transactions?

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The nature of the individual’s use of self…

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The sense of ____ produces hope because it reduces the sense of ____ and makes the future seem more manageable

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efficacy; powerlessness

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T/F Those with strong self-efficacy figure out way sof exercising some measure of control in environments containing limited opportunities and many constraints

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TRUE

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Explain learned helplessness

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Little or no belief that you can do anything that will make a difference

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What are the 4 main components of resilience?

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  1. reduction of risk impact
  2. reduction of negative chain reactions
  3. sense of self esteem and self efficacy
  4. taking advantage of possibilities
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Competence is the capacity to ___ everything you have, including the ____ that drives symptoms and probllems, to realize your deepest and best ____

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USE everything
Including the ENERGY
best STRIVINGS

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The competent individual is one who is able to make use of _______ and ____ ____ to achieve a good developmental outcome

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environmental and personal resources

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A proactive process of moving toward change occurs when people…. (3 things)

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  1. feel competent
  2. have a vision
  3. are courageous
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3 errors of ineffective therapy

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  1. lack of theme and focus
  2. Strong theme and focus but no push for change
  3. produces change that is not essential to the people involved
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______, not just insight produces change. _____ must be paired with appropriate action

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Movement…. awareness

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______ represents the awareness of what needs to be changed. ______ ____ engages commitment and courage to change

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Vision; Proactive move

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Miracle Question

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How would you behave if the problem have by some miracle resolved itself?

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T/F Therapists should focus on a client’s strengths and weaknesses and how they fit together

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TRUE

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Problems of deficit-based model

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  1. confuse patterns of dysfunction with their basic selves
  2. Seeing psychopathological events as fixed, rather than process
  3. Does not suggest a way out of pathological pattern
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T/F Focusing primarily on dysfunction provides us with a map for moving forward

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FALSE- it does not

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T/F People can make needed changes based on their resources within their system

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FALSE- themselves and their system

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Which is more helpful to focus on, the healthy or pathological?

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Both, being respectful of all components of behavior

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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 ____

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labeling or condemning

Pattern; person

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4 reasons to form a collaboration or partnership

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  1. provides a reality check
  2. provides courage
  3. provides motivation
  4. Enriches success and failure
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3 ways partners bring out hte best in each other

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  1. appreciation
  2. encouragement
  3. challenge
29
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____-_____ requires a strong level of engagement

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Health-Hunting

30
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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

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TRUE

31
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Explain the concept of healthy indifference

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engaging clients actively and intensely without being so invested in the outcome that we rise and fall with them

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T/F: In a bad partnership, we pull each other out of the ruts and keep the process going

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False- that is characteristic of a GOOD partnership

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As therapists, we believe strongly int he need for therapists to _____, _____, and _______ one another

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support, challenge, and encourage

34
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As therapists, we need to expand our experience of _____, _____ and _____

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openness, creativity, and partnership

35
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“Something to ___, someone to __ __ ____, and something to ___ ________ __”

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do… do it with…. look forward to

36
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T/F A vision of how we want our lives to process is not vital to how we conduct ourselves day to day

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FALSE- it IS vital

37
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We are more interesting in an individual’s sense of ______

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Possibility

38
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T/F We want to expand people’s repertoires more than we necessarily want to add a particular skill

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TRUE

39
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In therapy, a vision of where a client wants to move is not crucial to both the client’s and the therapist’s conduct

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FALSE- it IS crucial

40
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3 important implications regarding the need for creating a vision in therapy

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  1. positive vision can help cope with crisis
  2. vision of oneself in the future provides cues about path and/or methods of getting there
  3. Sense of what is possible acts as an incentive for present and future behavior
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T/F people with no vision of their future cannot use the vision to organize their present behavior

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TRUE

42
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T/F Developing, supporting, and expanding people’s vision mechanism and their sense of what is possible is not a critical compnent of therapy

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FALSE

43
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To be useful, hope needs to be ____ with a somewhat realistic assessment of what is possible

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BALANCED

44
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Therapists must strike a balance between ____ and _____

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Hope and reality

45
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In helping people change, it is critical to understand what 3 things

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  1. what thye are hoping for
  2. their sense of possibilities
  3. their strengths/possibilities they feel they can call upon to get them there
46
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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

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TRUE

47
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The client’s _____ is the underlying healthy “____ ____”, that is, their healthy impulses toward ___ and _____

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person… “real self”…. mastery and belonging

48
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Therapists must distinguish between the client’s _____ and ____

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person and pattern

49
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T/F Getting stuck in the ruts does not affect the person’s vision

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FALSE- it DOES affect vision

50
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T/F successful therapy depends on the therapist’s vision being less limited than the client’s

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TRUE

51
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Creating _______ in therapy depends on having the ability to ______ multiple pathways to a client’s desired future

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movement….. envision

52
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T/F The therapist’s job is always to become more respectful of the family’s struggles

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FALSE- sometimes it is also to challenge how they conceptualize their struggles and reorient their vision

53
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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 ______

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understanding and accepting…
proactive behavior….
Partnership

54
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Courage

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The attitude or response of family and dealing with anything recognized as dangerous, difficult or painful, instead of withdrawing from it

55
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Encourage literally means

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To provide with courage

56
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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

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True

57
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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

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Fear

58
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2 kinds of courage

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  1. courage to face true feelings (positive and negative)

2. Courage to change

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T/F Fear dissipates as one develops competence around fearful areas

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TRUE

60
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Courage grows _______

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Incrementally

61
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Our _______ is less often a failure of _____ than a reflection of our not having enough _____

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stuckness… technique….. courage.

62
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Countertransferrence

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Working with our issues instead of the client’s

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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

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TRUE

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It is not the _____ _____ that makes the difference as much as the ______ ____ of people who can encourage each other and risk the journey together

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cognitive match…. emotional pairing

65
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T/F Courage and Competence rise and fall together

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TRUE

66
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2 fundamental aspects to the process of encouraging

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  1. acceptance

2. action

67
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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

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TRUE

68
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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

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FALSE it can be interrupted and diminished

69
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Courage in therapy depends on the therapist’s _______ to _____________ and at least as much of herself

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willingness to ask much of her client

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