Counseling & Helping Relationships Flashcards
Explain Topographic Notion
The mind has depth like an iceberg.
Define Unconscious
Composed of material hidden or unknown to the client.
Define Preconscious
Capable of bringing idea, images, & thoughts into awareness.
Define Conscious
Aware of the immediate environment.
Define Depth Psychology
Related to Freud’s Topographic Hypothesis.
Explain Oedipus Complex
The complex of emotions aroused in a young child, typically around the age 4, by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex & wish to exclude the parent of the same sex.
Define Transference
When a client displaces emotion felt toward a parent, partner, caregiver, etc. onto the counselor.
Define Countertransference
When the therapist displaces emotion back onto the client.
Define Free Association
Instructing the client to say whatever comes to mind even if it seems silly or embarrassing.
Name the theorists associated with the Analytical Movement
Freud, Jung, & Adler
Define Abreaction
Talking about difficulties in order to purge emotions & feelings is a curative process.
Explain Freud’s thoughts on dreams
Dreams are composed of a surface meaning (manifest content), and then a hidden meaning (latent content).
Define Classical Psychoanalysis
Was quite lengthy (3-5 sessions per week for years)
Define Insight
The attempt to help clients recall repressed memory & make it conscious so it can be dealt with.
Explain Psychodynamic Counseling
- Utilizes fewer sessions per week
- Does not utilize the couch
- Performed face to face
Define Catharsis
The process of releasing, providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
Define Sour Grape Rationalization
Underrating a reward to protect from a bruised ego.
Define Sweet Lemon Rationalization
Overrating a reward to protect from a bruised ego.
Define Resistance
Client’s tendency to inhibit or fight against the therapeutic process.
Define Interpretation
Makes client’s aware of their unconscious processes.
Define Ego Defense Mechanisms
Unconscious strategies, which distort reality and are based on self-deception to protect our self-image.
How many defense mechanisms are there?
12
Define Compensation
Strengthen one to hide another.
Define Denial
Refusing to face a negative behavior.
Define Displacement
Taking it out on someone else.
Define Identification
Attaching to something positive.
Define Introjection
Conforming to feelings for approval.
Define Projection
Seeing your unacceptable desires on others.
Define Rationalization
Excuse & justify mistakes by substituting acceptable reasons for less-acceptable real reasons.
Define Reaction Formation
Reducing anxiety by adoption beliefs contrary to your own beliefs.
Define Regression
Returning to coping strategies for less mature development.
Define Repression
Suppressing painful memories or thoughts.
Define Ritual & Updoing
Override the negative with a habit.
Define Sublimation
Redirecting unaccpetable desires into something acceptable.
Who is Eric Berne?
Responsible for Transactional Analysis (TA)
What are Berne’s 3 Ego States in Transactional Analysis
(P-A-C)
- Parent
- Adult
- Child
Explain The Parent
- Exteropsyche (strongly resembles Freud’s Superego)
- Synthesis of the messages received from parental figures & significant others.
Explain The Adult
- Neopsyche (strongly resembles Freud’s Ego)
- Rational, Logical, and DOES NOT focus on feelings.
Explain The Child
- Archaeopsyche (strongly resembles Freud’s ID)
- The little kid within
Define Structural Analysis
When a counselor analyzes out of which ego state a client is primarily operating & describing the client using (P-A-C) conceptualization.
Define Second-Order Structural Analysis
When a counselor analyzes an ego state within an ego state.
