Helping Relationships Flashcards
What is wellness?
It is a holistic concept that refers to a persons overall healthy state of being. Wellness means being not only physically healthy but also mentally, psychologically, and spiritually healthy.
What are the five factors in the indivisible self model of wellness?
That essential self which includes spirituality, self-care, gender identity, and cultural identity
The social self which includes friendship and love
The creative self which includes thinking, emotions, control, positive humor, and work.
The physical self which includes exercise and nutrition
The coping self which includes realistic beliefs, stress management, self worth, and leisure
What is the therapeutic alliance?
The working alliance or therapeutic relationship between the client and the counselor.
It is considered one of the most important predictors of whether clients will benefit, regardless of the theoretical orientation of the counselor and the type of client problem.
What did Carl Rogers propose were the six necessary and sufficient conditions for client change?
Psychological contacts between the counselor and client. There needs to be a relationship.
Client incongruence between experience and awareness which leaves and feeling vulnerable and anxious.
Counselor congruence within the therapeutic relationship and possibly uses self disclosure to establish and build rapport with the client.
Counselor uses unconditional positive regard and demonstrating nonjudgmental attitude toward the client and unconditionally accepts the client.
The counselor uses empathy to understand the clients worldview and communicates this to the client in order to reinforce unconditional positive regard.
Clients perception of the relationship with the counselor.
What are the three into related elements composing the therapeutic relationship?
The working alliance, transference relationship, and the real relationship
The “collaboration for a change” in the working alliance involves three constructs. What are they?
Agreement on the goals of counseling
Agreement on the tasks that will help the client achieve his or her goals
The psychological bond between the counselor and the client
What are three theories of why clients are resistant in therapy?
Anxiety control - proposed by Freud, resistance is due to re-pression of unsavory or anxiety causing memories that are part of their unconscious.
Noncompliance - resistance is displayed when clients do not complete their homework. The three common reasons are
a) the lack of necessary skills or knowledge to follow through on the assignment
b) negative expectations or cognition of the client about therapeutic outcome of process
c) undesirable environmental conditions.
Negative social influence - caused by a negative dynamic in the counselor – client relationship or a clients desire for power or control but in the counseling relationship
What are the five factors in the five factor model of personality?
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
What assessment is used to measure the five factors of personality?
The NEO Personality inventory revised
What are the stages of change, also referred to as the trans theoretical model of behavioral change?
It’s conceptualizes the client change process as a series of six progressive stages that developed over time.
Precontemplation
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
Termination
What are the different consultation models?
Triadic-dependent model
Collaborative – dependent model
Collaborative – interdependent model
Kaplan’s mental health consultation model
Process consultation model
Behavioral consultation model
What is the triadic – dependent model a consultation?
When a consultant seeks advice from an expert, (the consultant) about a third-party, (usually the client).
What is the collaborative – dependent model of consultation?
The consultee still relies on the consultant for help while both parties contribute their unique background and skills to resolve the problem. It is a collaboration where both parties possess distinctive abilities and information that are critical to reaching a solution.
What is the collaborative – interdependent model of consultation?
There is no expert in this model. Everyone who participates in the consultation process holds equal authority and depends on the others for their specialized knowledge.
What is Caplan’s mental health consultation model?
The model involves consultation between two professionals about a current work problem. The over arching goal of this approach is to improve the consultees ability to deal with current and future work problems and to improve job performance.
There are four types of mental health consultation:
Client centered case consultation
Consultee centered case consultation
Program centered administrative consultation
Consultee centered administrative consultation
What is the process consultation model?
It emphasizes the establishment and development of a relationship between the consultant and the client. Consultants can help clients to take pro active steps to deal with their problems and improve their situation.
What is the behavioral consultation model?
It is based on operant conditioning and involves a collegial relationship between the consultant and consulted. The consultant is viewed as the authority figure who assumes primary responsibility for the outcome of the consultation. The primary focus of this model is on behavior modification.
What is determinism?
Contends that peoples actions are predetermined by forces of which they are unaware. It is a central theme in psychoanalytic theory.
In psychoanalytic theory there are three kinds of conscious mind. What are they?
Conscious mind – aware of everything occurring in the present
Preconscious mind - combines characteristics of both the conscious and unconscious minds
Unconscious mind – the most nebulous part of a persons mind. It contains memories, instincts, and drives that are exceedingly difficult to bring to a persons conscious awareness.
What is psychoanalysis known for?
Making the unknown known. Increasing clients awareness of their unconscious motivations. Help clients address and resolve the psychosexual developmental stages, learn effective coping mechanisms, and become more insightful about themselves.
What are some psychoanalytic techniques?
Free association - clients are encouraged to speak about early life memories without thinking and to say anything that occurs to them.
Dream analysis - frayed considered them to be the royal road to the unconscious and that dreams represent unmet wishes and desires.
Interpretation - where the psychoanalyst interprets the meaning of clients thoughts, emotions, behavior, and dreams to increase their self awareness and understanding of their unconscious desires.
In Psychoanalysis, is transference a good or bad thing?
Transference is encouraged because it gives clients an emotional release and allows the psychoanalyst to interpret the behavior and raise the clients self awareness.
What are the neo – Freudian approaches?
Ego psychology
Interpersonal psychoanalysis
Object relations theory
Self psychology
What theory is Alfred Adler known for?
Individual psychology, also known as Adlerian psychology.
Which part of the personality operates on the reality principle?
The ego
What is individual psychology known for?
That clients lifestyles, cognitive fictions, and family constellations help them develop insight into their own lives and change their lifestyles to one that promotes greater growth and wholeness.
What are some concepts tied to Adlerian theory?
Inferiority complex
Birth order
Lifestyle
Fictions
Techniques
What is a phenomenological philosophy?
Asserted by Adler that it was not merely early events that influence a persons life style but rather the person’s perception of those events.
What are fictions in regards to individual psychology?
Peoples beliefs about themselves and others that are false. Fictions can lead to negative behaviors.
What are seven Adlerian techniques?
A lifestyle analysis
Encouragement
Acting as if
Asking the question
Spitting in the clients soup
Catching oneself
Pushbutton technique
What is the focus of Jungian analytic psychology?
It focuses on the role of the larger culture, spirituality, dreams, and symbolism in understanding the human psyche. The goal is to help people develop appropriate contact with their unconscious so that they are neither overwhelmed by it nor completely unaware of it forces.
What is individuation in regards to Jungian analytic psychology?
The process of discovering ones true inner self.
What concepts are associated with Jungian psychology?
The unconscious
Archetypes
Complexes
Personality types
Jungian Techniques
What are the two types of unconscious in regards to Jungian psychology?
Personal unconscious – it is unique to the individual and includes information that has been conscious but has now been forgotten or repressed.
Collective unconscious – not unique to each individual but shared by the entire human race. Residing within the collective unconscious are archetypes, or overarching human tendencies.
What are archetypes?
Inherent templates for human thought and behavior. Also can be thought of as patterns of human experience that have existed since the dawn of humanity.
What are some of the most prominent archetypes found within the collective unconscious?
The self - contains the conscious and unconscious aspects of a person and is the primary archetype.
The persona - The psychological masks that all humans wear.
The shadow - The repressed or unknown aspects of each person.
The anima - female traits that exist in the collective unconscious of men.
The animus - male traits that exist in the collective unconscious of women.
What is a complex in regards to Jungian psychology?
They symbolize issues that a person needs to resolve. They usually revolve around an archetype.
What are some Jungian techniques?
Dream interpretation
Explication – Why certain objects appeared in their dreams
Amplification - to help understand images in dreams. Comparing the dreamers image to stories or images and myths, fairytales, literature, art, and folklore.
Active imagination - actively talk to the characters in their dreams as a way of connecting with the unconscious.
What is shaping in regards to behavioral theories?
It is a technique that reinforces successive approximations of the desired behavior. A new task is broken down into smaller steps, with the successful accomplishment of each step being reinforced, gradually building up to the performance of the target behavior.
What is extinction in regards to behavioral theories?
The termination of a behavior by withholding reinforcement.
What is environmental planning in regards to behavioral theories?
Involves having clients rearrange their environments to encourage or discourage certain behaviors.
What is behavioral rehearsal or role playing in regards to behavioral theories?
A technique where clients practice or rehearse new behaviors in a safe environment until they feel confident enough to try the new behaviors outside of the counseling environment.
What is assertiveness training in regards to behavioral theories?
A technique that teaches clients the distinction between aggression, passivity, and assertiveness.
What are contingency contacts in regards to behavioral theories?
A technique presented in the form of a chart or table that lists desired behaviors, provides a space for noting whether the desired behaviors were achieved, and describes the conditions that must be met for the individual to be rewarded.
Most commonly used with children.
What is a token economy in regards to behavioral theories?
A technique most commonly used with children that provides rewards for demonstrating desired behavior.
What is a response cost in regards to behavioral theories?
A technique that reduces undesirable behaviors by removing a positive reinforcement. It is often used in conjunction with a token economy.
What is implosion or implosive therapy in regards to behavioral theories?
Involves having clients imagine hypothetical scenarios that would cause them severe anxiety until they become desensitized to them.
What is Time out in regards to behavioral theories?
It is an aversive behavioral techniques that removes a child so that he or she is no longer able to receive any kind of positive reinforcement.
What is overcorrection in regards to behavioral theories?
An aversive behavioral technique that requires the client to return the environment to its original condition prior to the undesirable behavior and then to make the environment better. Often, overcorrection is done repeatedly to serve as a deterrent to future misbehavior.
What is cognitive behavior modification approach?
It was created by Donald Meichenbaum and is an approach that trains clients to alter their internal cognitions, also known as self talk, in order to change the way they react and respond to situations.
What is the assumption underlying they cognitive - behavior modification approach?
Faulty self statements lead to deleterious behavior and negative emotions.
What are some techniques of the cognitive behavior modification approach?
Cognitive restructuring – a technique used to help clients adjust their self talk by targeting self statements that results in problematic behaviors or feelings and replacing the self statements with new statements that are more rational, logical, and positive.
Self instructional training – teaches clients how to alter their thoughts and behavior by demonstrating appropriate behaviors and thoughts to clients.
Stress inoculation training – clients identify their stressors and which aspects of stress that they can modify. Counselors then teach client skills to help them cope with stress, and then the clients practice these new skills.
Who developed cognitive therapy?
Aaron Beck
What is the assumption behind cognitive therapy?
That peoples emotions and behaviors are a direct result of their cognitions
What are automatic thoughts in regards to cognitive therapy?
Immediate, unhealthy internal cognitions.
What is distorted thinking in regards to cognitive therapy?
Inaccurate thoughts or ideas that maintain dysfunctional thinking and negative emotions
What are some different types of distorted thinking in regards to cognitive therapy?
Dichotomous thinking – all or nothing thinking.
Selective abstraction – focus only on the negative aspects.
Overgeneralization –reaching a conclusion based on limited information or experience.
Magnification - exaggerating personal flaws or situations.
Labeling – define themselves according to perceived imperfections.
Mind reading – people believe that they know what others are thinking about them without any evidence.
Negative predictions – anticipate, without any evidence, that something bad will happen and then alter their behaviors accordingly.
What is the primary goal of cognitive therapy?
To assist clients and identifying their automatic thoughts so that they can be challenged and changed.
What are some techniques in regards to cognitive therapy?
Cognitive rehearsal
Homework
Scriptotherapy - therapeutic writing
Thought stopping
What was rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) formerly known as?
And Who developed it?
Rational emotive therapy (RET)
Albert Ellis
What was Albert Ellis’sproposition about a persons beliefs?
He believed that rational or irrational beliefs are what produce people’s emotional responses to any given event. Essentially, people experience emotions because they judge events to be either positive or negative in relationship to their personal objectives.
What is one of the primary goals of REBT?
To dispute peoples irrational beliefs and help them change their musts, shoulds, wants, and wishes.
What are the ABCD’s of our REBT?
A) is the activating event or experience that elicits negativity or unease.
B) peoples beliefs systems that can be either rational or irrational in response to (A).
C) The consequence that is either a beneficial or detrimental emotion.
D) disputing the irrational beliefs must happen next.
E) effective new philosophy follows that allows people to replace there irrational beliefs with rational beliefs.
What are some of the techniques in REBT?
Reverse role playing
Rational emotive imagery
Emotional control cards
Shame attack exercise
Who developed reality therapy?
What theory is it based on?
William Glasser
Choice theory
What is the basic premise of choice theory?
People make choices to meet their five basic needs which are
Survival
Belonging
Power
Freedom
Fun
Where do most client problems stem from according to choice theory?
They stem from a lack of relationships or relationships that failed to meet our belonging needs
What is the role of the counselor in reality therapy?
They serve as educators and models
What is the WDEP system in reality therapy?
It was created by Robert Wubbolding as a procedure for applying the principles of reality therapy to clinical practice. It helps clients identify and satisfy their basic needs for a four step process.
What does the WDEP system stand for?
W) wants
D) doing
E) evaluation
P) plan
What theories represents the first force of counseling?
Psychodynamic theories
What theories represents the second force of counseling?
Cognitive behavioral theories
What series represent the third force of counseling?
Humanistic existential theories
What do you humanistic counselors believe in?
Human goodness and the ability of all individuals to strive toward self actualization given the proper environment.
What is existential counseling?
It assists clients in addressing universal questions about life, death, and freedom and helps them find meaning in their lives.