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Helping Relationships and Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy Flashcards

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bumps on the skull

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Phrenology

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Fluid in the brain and magnetism (France Mesmer)

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Mesmerism

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Known as the “talking cure”

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Catharsis/Abreaction

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Viennese Neurologist who relied on catharsis (talking cure) aka abreaction

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Yosef Broyer

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A patient of Joseph Breuer who coined the phrase “talking cure” and was a major inspiration for Freud.

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Anna O

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In a dream, this is the literal content and storyline.

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manifest content

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In a dream, this is the underlying meaning.

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latent content

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performed face-to-face and is briefer than Freudian Psychoanalysis

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Psychodynamic Therapy

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Client cannot see analyst
Slow and expensive
Best for motivated individuals
Works best when client is not making major life changes and NOT good treatment for crises

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classical Freudian Psychoanalysis

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In this theory the mind consists of 3 parts: the Id, the Ego, and the Superego

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Structural Theory

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The part of the mind that holds dreams, slips of the tongue, neurotic symptoms, and free association

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the Id

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Part of the mind: instincts inherited at birth, no morals, no organization, no sense of time biological drives

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The Id

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Part of the mind: attempts to balance forces of the Eid and Superego

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Ego

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Part of the mind: Moral standards the person tries to reach; The perfect person in terms of what the person’s parent’s want
Acts as the conscience
Moral code
Evolves through successful passing through of the oedipus complex

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Superego- ego ideal

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Says the Psyche is made of 3 parts, conscious, unconscious, preconscious

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Topographic Notion

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Part of the psyche that can be recalled if you try hard enough

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Preconscious

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Part of the psyche that is -deep below awareness, only available through analytic techniques

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Unconscious

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Type of psychology dealing with trying to reach the unconscious mind

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Depth psychology

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Says behavior is determined by biological drives, instincts, etc.

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Deterministic

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Conceal or hide the real source of anxiety and keep the Ego from being overwhelmed
Denies or distorts reality (unconsciously)

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Ego Defense Mechanisms

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Freud’s defense mechanism: Unconsciously staying away from anything that may cause unwanted feelings

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Avoidance

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Freud’s defense mechanism: Having an abusive mother, so later having difficulty with women teachers

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Acting Out

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Freud’s defense mechanism: Refusal to believe or accept unwanted reality

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Denial

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Freud’s defense mechanism: Transferring emotions associated with person or event to another less threatening person, object or situation

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Displacement

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Freud’s defense mechanism: Dealing with emotional conflict or stress by splitting off or repressing some part of your personality or consciousness from your awareness

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Dissociation

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Freud’s defense mechanism: Unconscious modeling of another person’s values, attitudes, or behavior

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Identification

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Freud’s defense mechanism: Use of thinking to avoid unpleasant feelings

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Intellectualization

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Freud’s defense mechanism: Separation from emotions from precipitating event or situation

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Isolation

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Freud’s defense mechanism: Attributing one’s unwanted thoughts, characteristics, feelings to another person

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Projection

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Freud’s defense mechanism: Attempting to justify one’s behavior by presenting reasons that sound logical

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Rationalization

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Freud’s defense mechanism: Adopting behaviors or feelings that are exactly the opposite of one’s true feelings.

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Reaction Formation

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Freud’s defense mechanism: Dealing with emotional stress by forcing out any thoughts, memories, impulses from conscious awareness.

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Repression

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Freud’s defense mechanism: Substituting constructive and socially acceptable behavior for strong impulses not acceptable in their original form

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Sublimation

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Analytic Psychologist who thought libido was the life force, believed in a collective unconscious, and described archetypes. Also responsible for introversion/extroversion and word association.

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Carl Jung

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A social mask that hides deep feelings

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Persona

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Feminine side

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Anema

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Masculine side

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Anemus

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Myers-Briggs was based on his work

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Carl Jung

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Father of Analytical Psychologi

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Carl Jung

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Psychologist famous for Individual Psychology. Believed in significance of birth order, inferiority complex, and that humans strive to become part of a group.

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Alfred Adler

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A neo-freudian/ego psychologist who emphasized social factors and thought basic anxiety was due to a lack of love in childhood.

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Karen Horney

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To overcome insecurity, Horney said people do these 3 things in their relationships with others.

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Moving toward, moving against, and moving away

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The main goal of behavior therapy is to

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overcome unwanted behaviors

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The idea that even if you cure one symptom, another will take it’s place unless you deal with the root cause.

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Symptom Substitution

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A behavior you can see

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Overt

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A process or feeling you cannot see

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Covert

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The first thing a behavioral counselor will do with a client is

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take a baseline of the unwanted behavior

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May also be called a Neutral Stimulus

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Conditioned Stimulus

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The most efficient amount of time between a conditioned and unconditioned stimulus is

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.5 second

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The meat and then the salivating in Pavlov’s dogs are

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unconditioned stimulus & unconditioned response

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The bell and the salivating in Pavlov’s dogs are

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conditioned stimulus & conditioned response

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The way that after a while of bell with no meat, the response will no longer occur is called

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Spontaneous Recovery

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Father of American Behaviorism who is known for the experiment with Little Albert

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John B. Watson

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11 year old exposed to loud noise paired with harmless rat- this experiment is called ______ and showed us you can learn a phobia

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Little Albert

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Paired fear with food to eliminate phobia showing that

Fear can be unlearned

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Mary C. Jones

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Responsible for systematic desensitization- classical conditioning to unlearn habits/neurotic systems/behavioral repertoire

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Joseph Wolpe

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classical conditioning to unlearn habits/neurotic systems/behavioral repertoire is called

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systematic desensitization

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show the anxiety producing stimulus in the presence of relaxation/anxiety-inhibiting situation

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Reciprocal Inhibition

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Progressive Muscle Relaxation resulted from the work of

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Joseph Wolpe

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Said all problems are inhibition and used assertiveness training

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Andrew Salter

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Noxious UCS paired with undesirable CS- for example, nausea inducing meds with alcohol.

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Aversive Conditioning

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Deliberate exposure to anxiety provoking stimulus for 40-60 minutes with no feared consequence

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like flooding but in the imagination

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Implosive Therapy

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hooked to an electronic device monitoring bodily functions helping them to control their body

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Biofeedback

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This theory emphasizes the importance of observing, modelling, and imitating the behaviors, attitudes, and emotional reactions of others

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Social Learning Theory

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Responsible for Social Learning Theory

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Albert Bandura

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Reinforcement not provided directly to the individual, but to the model- results in

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cognitive symbolic mediational process or observational learning

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exaggerate inappropriate behavior overtly or covertly

(you can’t shake with anxiety when you try)

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Paradoxical Intention

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Client engages in dysfunctional behavior when they would not normally do so- works well with nail-biting or blushing

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Knight Dunlap Beta Hypothesis

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Responsible for Multi-modal therapy

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BASIC-ID
Behavior
Affective Responses
Sensations
Imagery
Cognitions
Interpersonal Relationships
Drugs, prescriptions, biological factors

All used in this type of therapy

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Multi-modal Therapy

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Responsible for Operant Conditioning

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BF Skinner

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Two ways to increase behavior according to Skinner

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Positive or Negative Reinforcement

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Two ways to decrease behavior, according to Skinner

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Positive or Negative Punishment

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Says that a reinforcer can be based on what a person likes to do

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Pre-Mac Principle

76
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To reinforce every instance of behavior (effective for new behaviors)

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Continuous Reinforcement

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To -reinforce every so often- avoids satiation/habituation

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Intermittent Reinforcement

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Certain number of behaviors are emitted before enforced

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Ratio Schedule

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Certain amount of time elapses before behavior is enforced

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Interval Schedule

80
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When a counselor goes from continuous to intermittent reinforcement it is called

81
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No power of its own, but takes on power because it stands for the primary reinforcer: i.e.
Plastic token that can be turned in for a reward, the smell of bbq, talking while feeding your baby, money

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Secondary Reinforcer (learned or conditioned reinforcer)

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lack of reinforcer (ignoring a behavior)

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Extinction

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To reinforce behaviors which approach the target behavior

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Responsible for REBT

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Albert Ellis

85
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Involves: Teaching (didactic) clients to think their way out of an emotional disturbance
Active/Directive- homework assignments
Reading books
Client is a learner
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of things

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Illogical thinking: I must receive love and approval from all - you many want love, but you don’t need it

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Absolutist Thinking

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“frustration leads to aggression”

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Millard Psychological Hypothesis

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ABCDE theory

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Activating Event
Beliefs
Consequence
Disputing 
Effective new way of dealing with the problem
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Who is responsible for Cognitive Behavior Modification or Self-Instructional Theory

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Donald Michenbaum

90
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Created depression inventory
Doesn’t like irrational ideas
Prefers Cognitive Distortions

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Focusing on one detail of an event rather than the entire situation

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Selective Abstraction

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Conclude without support evidence and imagine the worst

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Arbitrary Influences

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Uses REBT and has the client complete a written self-analysis
Ideal for Multicultural counseling and chemical dependency
Cognitive Restructuring

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Rational Self-Counseling

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Theorist who was in Phenomenological Field- how the client views and experiences the world
Challenged directive approach
Rejected Freudian View of Mankind

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Carl Rogers

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Felt that Behaviorism and psycho-analysis are demeaning to humans

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Carl Rogers

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(integrated, authentic, genuine)

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communicated to client, trying to grasp their experience in the here and now, turning client’s world into your own, identifying with it personally

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Accurate Empathy

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3 main characteristics of Person-Centered

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Congruence (Most Important)
Unconditional Positive Regard
Accurate Empathy

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Called Humanism a 3rd force- an alternative to psychoanalysis and behaviorism

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Responsible for Reality Therapy

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What are Success and Failure Identity?

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Success Identity- self worth, meeting your own needs, and positive addiction (meditation for example.)

Failure Identity- Faulty perceptions and irresponsible behavior

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Responsible for Transactional Analysis

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Made psychology fun and easy to understand

Goals for the therapy process

Parent/Child/Adult instead of Ego, Id, Superego

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Transactional Analysis

104
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According to Bern, this part of someone’s identity includes attitudes and behaviors learned and incorporated from others

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Parent

Critical Parent= shoulds/musts

Nurturing Parent- Supportive caretaker

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According to Bern, this part of identity operates independently, concerned with reality, not emotional or judgmental, examines information logicalls and decides based on intellect

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According to Bern, this part of identity is playful and spontaneous; self-centered, curious, affectionate, uncensored

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According to Bern this is creative, full of intuition, amateur untrained psychologist, great at reading nonverbal behavior, good at psyching out others, writing a novel, composing, designing, improving relationships

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Little Professor

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4 Psychological Positions in Life (Bern)

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I’m Ok/You’re Ok- promotes mental health
I’m ok/You’re Not Ok- blaming others, criminal tendencies
I’m not Ok/You’re Ok- inept, inferior to others, causes depression
I’m not Ok/You’re not Ok-

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3 Roles of the Karpman Drama Triangle

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Rescuer (soothes the victim, needs to feel important.)

Victim (poor little me)

Persecutor (critical, controlling, blaming)

110
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Who is responsible for Gestalt?

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Frederick Fritz Pearls

111
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Type of Therapy: forming of an organized, meaningful whole; Help person be aware of and reclaim fragmented parts (become whole); experiential rather than cognitive

112
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Gestalt: causes clutter of the mind and inhibits awareness

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Unfinished Business

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Gestalt: feeling stuck like you can’t mature anymore

114
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Implosive/Explosive in Gestalt Therapy

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Implosive- come in contact with deadness and lack of authenticity

Explosive- release pent up energy to become alive, real, authentic

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Gestalt: Top Dog- moralistic, righteous, mean
Under Dog- passive, victimized, defiant and fights for control
The client plays these roles in two chairs
Can be done in a group with an audience (and hot seat individual)

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Dialogue Experiment

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3 Ego Defense Mechanisms that block authenticity

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Projection, Introjection, Retroflection

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Ego Defense Mechanism that involves assigning personal attributes to others or the environment

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Projection

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Ego Defense Mechanism: uncritically accept other people’s ideas, beliefs, and notions

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Introjection

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Ego Defense Mechanism: -taking something you would like to do to someone else, but doing it to yourself out of fear

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Retroflection

120
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“I/Thou” Relationship with the client (which types of therapy)

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Gestalt/Existential

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Became an existential therapist after his time in concentration camps

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Victor Franco

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Responsible for the idea of “I/thou” relationship

123
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The goal of existential therapy

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to restore meaning to life

124
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What it is called when a person could be successful, but feel they have a loss of meaning in life

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Existential Neurosis

125
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not utilizing present moments in a productive manner

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Existential Guilt

126
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In Post Modern and Social Constructivism, reality is

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Socially Constructed

127
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In Post-Modern and Social Constructivism, the therapist is

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Not an all-knowing expert but a consultant/partner

128
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Type of Therapy: Assumes client has the ability to solve their problems
Must make them aware of this competence
Look for what IS working

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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

129
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FFST- Formula First Session Task

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Prescribe Homework between 1st and 2nd session

130
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Michael White and David Epstein were responsible for

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Narrative Therapy

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Type of Therapy: We live our lives based on the stories we tell about ourselves and the stories others tell about us- problem saturated! Stories become self-fulfilling prophecies

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Narrative Therapy

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