Counseling & Helping Relationships Flashcards

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Explain Topographic Notion

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The mind has depth like an iceberg.

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Define Unconscious

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Composed of material hidden or unknown to the client.

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3
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Define Preconscious

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Capable of bringing idea, images, & thoughts into awareness.

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4
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Define Conscious

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Aware of the immediate environment.

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5
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Define Depth Psychology

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Related to Freud’s Topographic Hypothesis.

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Explain Oedipus Complex

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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.

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Define Transference

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When a client displaces emotion felt toward a parent, partner, caregiver, etc. onto the counselor.

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Define Countertransference

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When the therapist displaces emotion back onto the client.

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Define Free Association

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Instructing the client to say whatever comes to mind even if it seems silly or embarrassing.

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10
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Name the theorists associated with the Analytical Movement

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Freud, Jung, & Adler

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11
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Define Abreaction

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Talking about difficulties in order to purge emotions & feelings is a curative process.

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11
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Explain Freud’s thoughts on dreams

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Dreams are composed of a surface meaning (manifest content), and then a hidden meaning (latent content).

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11
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Define Classical Psychoanalysis

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Was quite lengthy (3-5 sessions per week for years)

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11
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Define Insight

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The attempt to help clients recall repressed memory & make it conscious so it can be dealt with.

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12
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Explain Psychodynamic Counseling

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  • Utilizes fewer sessions per week
  • Does not utilize the couch
  • Performed face to face
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12
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Define Catharsis

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The process of releasing, providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.

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13
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Define Sour Grape Rationalization

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Underrating a reward to protect from a bruised ego.

14
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Define Sweet Lemon Rationalization

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Overrating a reward to protect from a bruised ego.

15
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Define Resistance

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Client’s tendency to inhibit or fight against the therapeutic process.

16
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Define Interpretation

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Makes client’s aware of their unconscious processes.

17
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Define Ego Defense Mechanisms

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Unconscious strategies, which distort reality and are based on self-deception to protect our self-image.

18
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How many defense mechanisms are there?

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12

19
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Define Compensation

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Strengthen one to hide another.

20
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Define Denial

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Refusing to face a negative behavior.

21
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Define Displacement

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Taking it out on someone else.

22
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Define Identification

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Attaching to something positive.

23
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Define Introjection

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Conforming to feelings for approval.

24
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Define Projection

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Seeing your unacceptable desires on others.

25
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Define Rationalization

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Excuse & justify mistakes by substituting acceptable reasons for less-acceptable real reasons.

26
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Define Reaction Formation

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Reducing anxiety by adoption beliefs contrary to your own beliefs.

27
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Define Regression

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Returning to coping strategies for less mature development.

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Define Repression

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Suppressing painful memories or thoughts.

29
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Define Ritual & Updoing

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Override the negative with a habit.

30
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Define Sublimation

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Redirecting unaccpetable desires into something acceptable.

31
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Who is Eric Berne?

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Responsible for Transactional Analysis (TA)

32
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What are Berne’s 3 Ego States in Transactional Analysis
(P-A-C)

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  • Parent
  • Adult
  • Child
33
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Explain The Parent

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  • Exteropsyche (strongly resembles Freud’s Superego)
  • Synthesis of the messages received from parental figures & significant others.
34
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Explain The Adult

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  • Neopsyche (strongly resembles Freud’s Ego)
  • Rational, Logical, and DOES NOT focus on feelings.
35
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Explain The Child

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  • Archaeopsyche (strongly resembles Freud’s ID)
  • The little kid within
36
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Define Structural Analysis

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When a counselor analyzes out of which ego state a client is primarily operating & describing the client using (P-A-C) conceptualization.

37
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Define Second-Order Structural Analysis

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When a counselor analyzes an ego state within an ego state.