Counseling & Helping Relationships #7 Flashcards
_______________ ______________ asserts that the only person whose behavior we can control is our own.
Choice theory
When the past is discussed in reality therapy, the focus is on _______________ ________________.
Successful behaviors
________________ _________________, father of reality therapy, believed that diagnostic labels give clients the permission to act sick or irresponsible.
William Glasser
The relationship the therapist has with the client in reality therapy is _______________.
Like that of a friend who asks what is wrong.
Glasser suggested eight steps in the reality therapy process. The final step asserts _______________.
That the client and counselor should be persistent and never give up.
To meet Glasser’s definition of a ________________ ________________, an activity must be non-competitive, solitary, and take about one hour to perform. Additionally, the person engaging in the activity must be able to do so without self-criticism and see that performing it will lead to personal improvement.
Positive addiction
________________ constitutes a synthesis regarding the general tone or feeling of the helping process and brings together a number of ideas from past sessions or within a single session of counseling.
Summarization
Behaviorism grew out of the philosophy of _______________ which asserts that ideas are held together by associations.
Associationism
A stimulus that leads to an automatic, unlearned response such as an animal salivating when food is presented is called an _______________ _______________.
Unconditioned stimulus
In reality therapy, an individual who possesses a _______________ _______________ is responsible and feels worthy and significant to others.
Success identity
Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) suggests the ABC theory of personality in which A is the ________________, B is the ________________, and C is the ________________.
- A = Activating event
- B = Belief system
- C = Emotional consequence
A type of counseling homework, ________________ is the use of books or writing pertaining to self-improvement.
Bibliotherapy
Coined by Albert Ellis, the term _______________ describes what occurs when a client uses too many “shoulds,” “oughts,” and “musts” in their thinking.
“Musterbation”
________________ or ________________ is the act of telling yourself how difficult, terrible, and horrendous a given situation is.
Awfulizing or catastrophizing
Ellis feels that ________________ is at the root of emotional disturbance.
Irrational thinking at Point B (i.e., within their belief system)
