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Psychosexual stages

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oral, anal, phallic, latency, + genital

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Oral

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birth - 18 mo, pleasure thru MOUTH

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Anal

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18 months - 3 yrs, pleasure thru ANUS, gain individuality + self control

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Phallic

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3-6 yrs, pleasure thru genitals, awareness of differences + internal conflicts

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Latency

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6 - puberty, dormant libido, gain knowledge/skills

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Genital

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puberty on, sexual experimentation, relationships

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Freud’s Personality Structure

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Id, Ego, Superego

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Id

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“instincts” + pleasure principle

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Ego

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mediates between conscious + unconscious, personal identity

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Superego

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”conscious,” the judge, values/morals

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Freud’s Levels of Consciousness

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Conscious, preconscious, unconscious

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Conscious

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Material in mind we are aware of

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Preconscious

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Material in mind that is regularly accessible

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Unconscious

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Repressed memories, urges and drives, not aware

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Defense Mechanisms

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Sublimation, Idealization, Repression

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Sublimation

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channeling unwanted urges into an productive outlet

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Idealization

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attributing overly positive qualities to another person or thing

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Repression

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Unwanted thoughts are unconsciously pushed out of awareness

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Goals of Freudian Therapy

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Balance superego + id
make unconscious conscious
personality change

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Free Association

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clients say what comes to mind and therapists point out omissions, discrepancies, and excesses

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Analysis

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Exploring the unconscious

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Interpretation

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Elucidating the meaning behind the unconscious

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Dream Analysis

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Latent and manifest content of dream is explored

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Abreaction

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Re-living a painful experience that was repressed

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Dealing with Resistance
Working to reduce clients’ defenses that may impede progress
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Patterns of human personality (Adler)
Inferiority, Superiority, Lifestyle
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Inferiority (pattern of personality)
Feeling of inadequacy that develops in infancy and promotes striving for superiority
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Superiority
Drive that allows individuals to become skilled, competent, and creative
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Lifestyle
People typically fall under categories of lifestyle: (Dominant, Getting, Avoiding, Socially useful)
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Family Constellation
Composition of family members, roles, and reciprocal transactions
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Oldest children
Intelligent, achieving, dethroned
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Second children
Competitive, less attention, expressive
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Middle children
Like 2nd child, feel not special, ambitious
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Youngest children
Striving to catch up, competition, inferiority, easy going
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Only children
Have much in common with oldest and youngest children
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Private logic
Beliefs about self and place in the world
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Carl Jung- Analytical Psychology
Bringing the conscious and unconscious together to help people feel balanced and whole, Myers-Briggs Type
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Anna Freud- Ego Psychology
Goal is help clients better adapt to environment + encourage healthy coping
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Karen Horney- Ego Psychology
Self-actualization/working on self image can could help anxiety
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Harry Stack Sullivan- Interpersonal Therapy
Help patient improve fast to help see light at the end of the tunnel Restore ability to have validating experiences
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ORT/Attachment Theory
Develop healthy object relations Client has sense of self
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Heinz Kohut- Self Psychology
Helps patients develop sense of self and they are not reliant on external validation to feel whole Importance of EMPATHY
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BPT Sandor Ferenczi and Franz Alexander
Goal is to RESOLVE Positive feelings towards self Change patterns of interactions stemming from childhood relationships
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Behaviorism
a systematic approach to understanding the behavior of humans and other animals
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Classical conditioning
a learning process when two stimuli are repeatedly paired: and eventually reaction happens with the first stimulus alone
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Operant conditioning
Specific consequences associated with behavior (reward increases behavior, punishment decreases)
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Social learning theory
people learn through observation
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Functional Behavior Assessments (behaviorism)
what triggers behaviors, what is behavior, what are consequences of behavior (ABC)
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ABC Model (behaviorism)
antecedent(trigger), behavior, and consequence
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Token Economies
reward behaviors with pre-determined rewards
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Bibliotherapy
giving people things to read (self-help book)
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Observational learning
watch someone performing skill client wants to achieve
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Logical disputation strat
identify magical thinking/leaps in logic
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Empirical disputation strat
accumulating evidence (prove it)
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Functional disputation strat
Focus on practical consequences of beliefs yield desired results
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Rational alternative disputation strat
offer possible alternative beliefs
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Didactic disputation style
educational way of giving info
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Socratic disputation style
using questions to promote client reasoning
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Metaphorical
using analogies to dispute beliefs
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Humorous
dispute belief with a joke
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Automatic Thoughts
constant stream of thoughts
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Intermediate beliefs
connect auto thoughts to core beliefs
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Core Beliefs
most deeply held assumptions about ourselves
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Schemas
deep mental filters that help us see/categorize the world
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Cognitive Model
perception is connected to reaction, goal is to make client self aware of thoughts
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Mindfulness
Ability to be in the current moment
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Radical acceptance
Accepting smth w/o picking it apart
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Distress tolerance
Increase tolerance of negative emotions
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Interpersonal effectiveness
Communicate with others in respectful way to urself and others
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DEAR MAN and GIVE FAST
acronyms to assist with interpersonal skills
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ACT tldr
Accept thoughts can't be controlled + create a valuable life
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Conditions of worth
expectation that love is conditional, must act a certain way to be loved
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Conditional positive regard
receive praise when acting as expected (can cause problems bc not living authentically)
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Unconditional positive regard
special for who you are
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Organismic valuing process
knowledge of what you need to be self-actualized
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Fully functioning person
self-aware of feelings
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Umwelt
Self in regulation to world
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Eigenwelt
Self in relation to self
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Uberwelt
Self in relation to spirituality
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Mitwelt
Self in relation to others
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Ultimate concerns (existential)
Death, Freedom, Isolation, Meaning
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Gestalt Therapy
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
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Field theory
see the big picture (ex optical illusions)
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Figure
have awareness of
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Ground
whats outside of awareness
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Integrating Polarities
don't feel forced to choose between extremes
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Growth Disorders
not moving towards growth, you get stuck
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Phony
Inauthentic way of relating to others
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Phobic
Fear of revealing real identity
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Impasse
Feeling of loneliness and feeling stuck
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Implosive
Contact with pushed away feelings
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Explosive
Authentic and strong ways of reacting to others

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