History & Systems Flashcards
REBT
- name
- theorist/developer
- main tenants
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
- a type of CBT developed by Albert Ellis
- focuses on helping clients change irrational beliefs through 3 basic steps: Identify irrational thought patterns and beliefs, challenge irrational beliefs, gain insight and change behavior
Beck
- what did he develop?
- what was the main belief motivating his research and treatment?
- Aaron Beck, Father of Cognitive Therapy (CT)
- pioneered theories widely used in the treatment of clinical depression
- he believed that mental illness comes from bad thinking patterns which must be treated with cognitive therapy
Classic Psychoanalytic Theory
- 3 key people
- key concepts
- personality structure
- psychosocial stages
- theory of change
- Sigmund Freud, Erikson, Adler
- Key Concepts: human behavior is determined by irrational forces and the unconscious, also known as biological drives; life instincts & death instincts are sexual in nature; The theory believes that people can be cured by making conscious their unconscious thoughts and motivations, and gain insight.
- structure: id, ego, superego
•psychosocial stages:
1-oral (0-2); anal (2-3); phallic (3-7); latent (7-11); genital (11+)
•TOC: corrective emotional experiences are what helps us to change, grow, heal from the original wounds we’ve experienced
- Define anxiety according to classical psychoanalytic theory
- Describe how it develops
- Name the 3 types
- a feeling of dread resulting from repressed feelings, memories, or desires
- develops out of conflict among the id, ego, superego to control psychic energy
- 3 types:
- Reality: fear of real, external events or objects
- Neurotic: fear of being overwhelmed by instincts and drive
- Moral: fear of violating values or moral codes within the unconscious
Name the most common techniques and approaches used in classical psychoanalytic theory
- Blank Screen Approach
- Countertransference
- Transference
- Dream Analysis
- Free Association
- Interpretive Analysis of Resistance
- Analysis of Transference
- Ego Defense Mechanisms
- Conscious/Unconscious
According to Freud’s hierarchy of the conscious mind, what category do thoughts and perceptions exist?
•conscious mind
According to Freud’s hierarchy of the conscious mind, what category do memories and stored knowledge exist?
•preconscious mind
According to Freud’s hierarchy of the conscious mind, what category holds fear, violent motives, immoral urges, irrational wishes, selfish need, and unaccepted sexual desires?
•the unconscious mind
Jean Piaget
•stages of moral development; stages of child development; cognitive stages of development
Object-Relations Theory
- describe the overall theory
- who is the co-founder most often credited with the theory?
- the process of developing a psyche in relation to others in the environment during childhood. Based on the role of early relationships and how they continue as objects or images within the mind
- Melanie Klein
Object Relations Theory
-describe each of the 3 main features of the theory: Object, Self, Self-Object
- Object: something invested with emotion (usually love/hate); most often refers to a person but can refer to places, things, etc
- internal object: mental representation or image of a person or place
- external object: actual person or place
- Self: conscious and unconscious representations or images that pertain to one’s own person; always private and refers to an internal image rather than an external reality
- Self-Object: when the distinction between the self-image and object-image is unclear or diffuse
Object Relations Theory
-name the stages of their developmental system
- Autism (0-2 mo)
- Symbiosis (2-6 mo)
- Separation-Individuation (6-24 mo)
- Hatching subphase (6-10 mo)
- Practicing subphase (10-16 mo)
- Rapproachment subphase (16-24 mo)
- Developing Object Constancy
Analytic Ego Defense Mechanisms
-name them
- Repression •Denial •Reaction-Formation
- Projection •Displacement •Rationalization
- Sublimation •Regression •Introjection
- Identification •Compensation
BF Skinner
•believed changes in behavior are the result of an individual’s response to events (stimuli) that occur in the environment
•operant conditioning; reinforcement contingencies; operant chamber; schedule of reinforcement; extreme environmentalism; radical behaviorism (neobehaviorism)
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describe Reinforcement Contingencies
•the contingency (relationship) between a response and a reinforcer; the contingency may be positive (if the occurrence of the reinforcer is more probable after the response) or negative (if it is less probable after the response)