Final Exam Review Flashcards
intro: topics discussed
historical context, contemporary research, ethical essetials
intro: understand how theories develop by looking at ___ and ___ contexts
historical; cultural
intro: who is father of psychotherapy? why is this an issue?
Freud; ignores others (Janet claimed he and colleagues working on the same thing as Freud), focusing on white father is racist/sexist
intro: four diff cultural and historical realities or perspectives
- biomedical
- religious/spiritual
- psychosocial
- feminist/multicultural
intro: definitions for psychotherapy vs counseling
psychotherapy-longer and deeper, more expensive with 12 part definition
intro: theory
organized of knowledge about a particular object or phenomenon; used to generate hypotheses about human thinking, emotions, behavior/evaluate theories with modern research principles and procedures
intro: Hans Eysenck (1952) conducted review of psychotherapy outcomes and concluded that psychotherapy was ___ effective than no treatment
less; controversial finding-substantial research on psychotherapy outcomes, agreed that it’s effective but no agreement on which approach is most effective for which problems
intro: two main positions to great psychotherapy debate
- specific therapy procedures are superior and should constitute most of what therapists provide
- there are common factors within all approaches that account for the fact that research generally shows all therapy approaches have equal efficacy or effectiveness
intro: approaches are evaluated using ____ or ____
highly controlled research protocols (randomized controlled trials); real world settings
intro: randomized controlled trials evidence to support
treatment efficacy
intro: real world settings evidence to support
treatment effectiveness
intro: abide by professional ethics
- competence and informed consent
- multicultural competence
- confidentiality
- multiple roles
- beneficence
- know that some approaches can be harmful
psychoanalysis: ___likely had oedipal conflicts, strove for recognition
Freud; didn’t want to visit Janet on his deathbed because libel was spread
psychoanalysis: Freud had many health issues-tobacco addiction, cancer and jaw surgery; ___ helped his commit suicide
Max Schur; morphine on 2 consecutive days
psychoanalysis: Freud began practicing ___; wrote ___ volumes of work
late 1800’s to early 1900’s; 24
psychoanalysis: seduction hypothesis; people had experiences with sexual abuse but then recanted
culture of the times was to not talk about sex
psychoanalysis: theories of human development
- dynamic
- topographic
- developmental stage
- structural
psychoanalysis: everyone can develop psychopathology if
exposed to the right type and amount of stress
psychoanalysis: Pine (1990)-evolution of psychoanalytic approach
- drive
- ego psychology
- object relations
- structural
psychoanalysis: free association used to
basic rule; articulate underlying unconscious processes
psychoanalysis: clients experience ___ and ___, therapist uses ___ to clarify and bring unconscious patterns into awareness
transference; resistance; interpretation
psychoanalysis: focus interpretations on problematic repeating interpersonal themes or patterns in client’s lives
contemporary focus on human relationships as primary motivator and developmental force
psychoanalysis: triangles of insight that include
- current client relationships
- client-therapist relationship (transference)
- past client relationships
psychoanalysis: evidence support
not suited for females/other cultures, controversial but lots of support
IP and Adler: little debate about significance
Ellis praised him as true father of modern psychotherapy, lots of people take from his ideas
IP and Adler: psychology of ___ ___
common sense
IP and Adler: Adler established himself and published book before joining with Freud
independent thinker that broke from Freud; made comprehensive and practical psych that remains influential today
IP and Adler: theoretical concepts
- individuals as whole persons that strive for purpose and superiority
- emphasizes social interest over self-interest as health goal
- individuals are unique
- behavior determined by multiple factors
- people develop internal cognitive map or “style of life” to handle tasks:
IP and Adler: tasks of life
- work/occupation
- social relationships
- love/marriage
- self
- spirituality
- parenting/family
IP and Adler: de-emphasizing psychopathology
individuals seeking counseling are viewed as discouraged or as lacking the courage to directly face challenges of tasks of life
IP and Adler: four overlapping stages of therapy
- forming friendly and egalitarian therapy relationship
- obtaining info leading to comprehensive lifestyle assessment and analysis
- using collaborative interpretation to help clients achieve insight into style of life
- reorientation or changing of on’es style of life to better meet tasks of life
IP and Adler: gender
far ahead of time; women were capable but oppressed by male society, viewed individuals within relational and social context
IP and Adler: research
little empirical research supporting efficacy
existential: about
finding meaning, taking personal responsibility
existential: based on existential philosophy
invariable conditions of human existence: personal responsibility, isolation, death, meaning
existential: view life in dialectical extremes then gather knowledge and meaning from ____
integration of extremes; experiencing and embracing personal freedom, combined with complete responsibility for one’s actions
existential: principles
- I am experience
- four existential ways of being: umwelt, mitwelt, eigenwelt, uberwelt
- daimonic
- nature of anxiety and guilt
-existential psychodynamics or ultimate concerns - self-awareness
existential: achieve greater ___ and ___ all that live has to offer in order to ____
awareness; embrace; live life to the fullest
existential: form I-thou relationship with clients and use it for therapeutic change
process involves intense interpersonal encounter that includes deep emotional sharing, feedback, confrontation, encouragement
existential: not sensitive to
gender or culture
existential: don’t value empirical science
little research supporting efficacy
PCT: rogers understood central role of
relationship; more important than problems and techniques (transparency, acceptance, empathy)
PCT: rogers was super optimistic and positive
raised in strict and judgmental home, one of the most respectful therapies ever
PCT: in 1942, claimed that all that was necessary and sufficient for positive personality change was to provide clients with
relationship that had congruence, unconditional positive regard, empathic understanding
PCT: four phases of therapy approach
- nondirective counseling
- client centered therapy
- becoming a person
- worldwide issues
PCT: complex theory of personality focusing on self-development
full development of a self-consistent with individuals total organismic experience–most kids are exposed to conditions of worth that lead to conflict with real and ideal selves
PCT: psychopathology from
failure to learn from experience
PCT: motivation interviewing
contemporary form, initially made for alcohol abusing clients; reflective, empathic techniques to focus on client ambivalence and to help clients develop own motivation to change
PCT: gender/cultrue
positive for feminists, negative for collectivist cultures
PCT: empirically based support
strong evidence for empathy, better than no treatment but less efficacious than more supported
Gestalt: live life to fullest in ___
present
Gestalt: ___ approach
experiential
Gestalt: integration of several theories
- psychoanalysis
- gestalt psych
- field theory
- existentialism
- phenomenology
- holism
Gestalt: therapy process
I-thou, here and now, what and how
Gestalt: contact with others and experiences are important; types of disturbance
introjection, projection, retroflection, deflection, confluence
Gestalt: emotionally activating, have to work
collaboratively and follow training guidelines