counseling and helping relationships Flashcards
joseph breuer
neurologist, taught freud value of “talking cure” or “catharsis”
AA Brill
impact of freudian theory on career choice
Rollo May
worked in/primary mover in exisistential couseling movement
structural theory
parts of self or states of ego (i.e. eric berne: child, adult, parent and freud: id, ego, superego); describing people this way is known as structural analysis
topographic notion
mind has depth like an iceberg (i.e. freud: unconscious, preconscious, conscious)
joseph wolpe
developed a paradign known as “systematic desensitization”: weakens a client’s response of anxiety to stimuli (behavior therapy based on pavlov’s ‘classical conditioning’)
freud’s understanding of dreams
surface meaning is manifest content; hidden meaning is latent content (deciphered by examining the symbolism of the dream)
freud’s “insight”
often described as a novel, sudden understanding of a problem
freud’s “resistance”
client who is reluctant to bring unconscious ideas into the conscious mind
little albert
case associated with work of John Watson who pioneered American behaviorism. They conditioned a 9 mo old boy to be afraid of furry objects; illustrated behaviorist concept that fears are learned; not deep with unconcious mind
anna o.
case took place in 1880’s; considered 1st psychoanalytic patient of joseph breuer. Diagosed with hysteria, hypnotised and remembered painful events under hypnosis
little hans
used to contrast behavior therapy with psychoanalysis; freud wrote a paper about little hans analyzing fear of going into streets reflecting psychoanalytic notions of behavior and fear
daniel schreber
“most frequently quoted case in modern psychology”; wrote memoir after years in mental hospital; 1911, freud published psychoanalytic notes on memoir; major delusion was that he would transform into a woman, mate with god and create a superior race (freud thought he was struggling with unconscious issues of homosexuality)
catharsis/abreaction
catharsis is non technical term whereas abreaction is. Catharsis conotes mild purging of emotion; abreaction describes when emotional outbursts are highly powerful.
subjective units of distress scale (SUDS)
concept used informing a hierarchy to perform wolpe’s systematic desensitization. SUDS is created via the process of interoception by grading anxiety associated with the situation 0-100. People use this to create a treatment hierarchy
parapraxis
technical psychoanalytic term for slips of the tongue
unconscious mind
composed of material that is normally unknown or hidden from client
ego defense mechanisms
unconsious strategies which distort reality and are based on self deception to protect our self image. They come about through tension between id and superego. Rationalization, compensation, repression (most important), projection, reaction formation, identification, introjection, denial, displacement.
repression
unconscous method to protect oneself from painful information
denial/suppression
conscious act of turning away from painful info
reaction formation
happens when someone cannot accept a given impulse so they behave in opposite manner
sublimation
present when a person acts out unconscious impulses in a socially acceptable way
displacement
when an impulse is unleashed at safe target for the person
rationalization
intellectualization used to minimize hurt feelings; sour grapes: negative, underrate reward or “i didnt want it anyway”; sweet lemon: positive, overrates reward “you’re better off this way”
introjection
takes place when a child accepts parents or caretakers values as their own
identification
when a person identifies with a cause or successful person with the unconscious hope that they will also be perceived as successful
projection
attributes unnacceptable qualities of self to others
compensation
when individuals attempt to overdevelop or develop positive trait in order to make up for a perceived inferiority or limitation
interpretation
makes clientts aware of unconscious processes
individual psychology
analyzes organ inferiority (methods by which individual attempts to compensate for that sense of inferiority)
wolfgang kohler
1910s, gestalt psychologist studying apes; found they had insight as they used trial and error to solve problems
three types of learning
reinforcement (operant conditioning); association (classical conditioning), insight
eidetic imagery
ability to remember the most minute details of scene or picture for an extended period of time; aka photographic memory
constructivist therapy
includes brief therapy (what has worked in clients past) and narrative therapy
neo-freudians
i.e. adler, horney, erikson, sullivan, fromm; stressed importance of cultural and social issues as well as interpersonal social relations
myers-briggs
based on jung’s work; most widely used measure of personality preferences and dispositions
rudolph dreikurs
first to discuss use of group therapy in private practice; introduced adlerian principles to the treatment of children in the school setting.
thematic apperception test (TAT)
projective test where client is shown picture and asked to tell story; introduced by henry murray 1938. called study of personality “personology”
andrew salter
wrote the case against psychoanalysis; groundbreaking work in behavior therapy led to assertiveness training. created conditioned reflex therapy.
paradox strategy
associated with work of viktor frankl; client is instructed to intensify or purposfully engage in maladaptive behavior. popular with family therapists (due to work of jay hayley and milton erikson)
ACT
therapy created by steven hayes; wants clients to take effective action in their lives. goal is to percieve feelings and thoughts as harmless, albeit uncomfortable. it’s the struggling with negative feelings that makes them worse
psychoanalytic theory
merely dealing with a symptom will lead to new sympton manifesting
frederick thorne
felt that through eclecticism was more than a hodgepodge of facts, needed to be scientific. preferred term psychological case handling rather than psychotherapy
associationism
asserts that ideas are held together by associations. had roots in essay by aristotle. most exams list locke, hume, mill or hartley
law of effect/edward thornedike
responses accompanied by satisfaction will be repeated whereas those accompanied by discomfort will be stamped out. trial and error learning
pavlov
classical conditioning or “trait factor approach” researched the digestive system. theory involves many reflexes. respondent behavior-reflexes. UR is never as strong as CR. behavior therapy is based on this.
skinner’s operant conditioning
instrumental learning-behavior modification
reinforcers
all reinforcers increase possibility of antecedent behavior occuring. neg reinforcement is taking something unpleasant away after the behavior occurs (not punishment)-it provides relief. pos reinforcement is a reward for a behavior you want to encourage
punishment
lowers possibility that a behavior will occur. pos punishment (when something is added after a behavior and the behavior is reduced). neg punishment is taking something away that is desired and behavior is reduced.
william glasser
father of reality therapy. 8 steps for effective treatment (7=admonishes not to punish); diagnostic labels give clients permission to act sick or irresponsible, popular in ed circles after writing ‘schools without failure’.
most effective time interval (temporal relation) between CS and US
half a second
backward conditioning
doesnt work! putting the unconditioned stimulus before the conditioned stimulus
forward condtioning
CS before US
stimulus generalization
second order conditioning occurs when the stimulus similar to the CS produces the same reaction
stimulus discrimination
opposite of stimulus generalization- “stimulus differentiation”
experimental neurosis
when the differentiation process becomes too difficult ebcause the stimuli are too similar. subject show signs of emotional disturbance
conditioned stimulus
neutral stimulus (NS)
unconditioned stimulus
reinforcing or charged stimulus
classical extinction
occurs when the CS is not reinforced by the US. not operant extinction (behavior can be extinguished). in classical extin. CR is not eliminated by suppressed. ignoring behavior is common method of extinction
chaining
a chain is a sequence of behaviors inw hich one reponse renders a cue that the next response is to occur. in behavior modification, simple behaviors are learned in chains. a series of operants joined by reinforcers
neil miller and ali banuazizi
utilized rewards to train rats to alter heartrate and intestinal contractions. prior to this it was thought autonomic systems could not be controlled