Intervention

Question 1

Stages of Change

Answer 1

1) Precontemplation
2) Contemplation
3) Preparation
4) Action
5) Maintenance

Question 2

Gestalt Therapy

Answer 2

Developed by Fritz Perls. Based in Field Theory. goal is to integrate thoughts, feelings, and actions

Question 3

Feminist therapy

Answer 3

focuses on political change as a goal

Question 4

Strategic Family Therapy

Answer 4

Jay Haley: therapist directives (i.e., commands) to members of the family, reframing of specific behaviors that may be presently viewed as unacceptable, and circular questioning, which involves the therapist asking each member of the family the same question about a particular issue, and then comparing responses.

Question 5

Structural Family Therapy

Answer 5

Minuchin. Therapist joins family system. Combo of systems theory and communication theory. Emphasis on family structure, boundaries, and subsystems

• triangulation and detouring
• Interventions include enactment, blocking, and reframing

Question 6

Extended Family Systems therapy

Answer 6

Bowen. Focus on intergenerational transmission process, triangulation, family projection process, sibling position, emotional cutoff, societal emotional process
Goal–> Differentiation of Self

Question 7

Solution-Focused therapy

Answer 7

Miracle: (A miracle happens and your problem is solved. What is different?)
-Exception: (Think of a time when problem didn’t exist. What was that like?)

Question 8

Yalom - Group therapy

Answer 8

What is important is:

1) Interpersonal learning
2) cohesiveness
3) catharsis

Question 9

Systematic Desensitization

Answer 9

Research shows that what is important is not relaxation, but exposure (extinction)

Question 10

Aversive Counterconditioning

Answer 10

something you don’t like is paired with something that you want to get rid of (shoe fetish)

Question 11

Flooding

Answer 11

mass practice is better than spaced practice

Question 12

Alfred Adler

Answer 12

Key concepts are style of life and creative self. Importance of social influence and family constellation..
Techniques include “Acting As If”, “Paradoxical Intention” (prescribing the symptom), and Magic Wand

Question 13

Erik Erikson

Answer 13

Stages of psychosocial development are (a) trust versus mistrust, 0 to 18 months; (b) autonomy versus shame, 1 to 3 years; (c) initiative versus guilt, 3 to 6 years; (d) industry versus inferiority, 6 to 11 years; (e) identity versus role confusion, 12 to 18 years; (f) intimacy versus isolation, 18 to 35 years; (g) generativity versus stagnation, 35 to 64 years; and (h) ego integrity versus despair, age 65 and older.

Question 14

Erich Fromm

Answer 14

Five character orientations: productive, receptive, exploitative, hoarding, and marketing

Question 15

Karen Horney

Answer 15

Developed idea of womb envy. Also believed maladaptive personality development was due to basic anxiety, resulting from poor interpersonal relationships esp. with caregivers

Question 16

Harry Stack Sullivan

Answer 16

Impt. of cog development in forming personality.
Protaxic mode - cognitions separate, isolated events (infancy, schizophrenia)
Parataxic mode - inferring causal relationships where it doesn’t exist (parataxic distortion common in neuroses)
Syntaxic mode - logical, rational, and symbolic cognition

Question 17

Transtheoretical Model

Answer 17

Prochaska and Norcross (2010). 2 main processes of change: experiential and behavioral

Question 18

The Dodo Bird Effect

Answer 18

Refers to finding that different therapeutic interventions have similar outcomes. Associated with Common Factors approach.

Question 19

Common Factors

Answer 19

Positive expectations, therapy relationship, working alliance

Question 20

MID (Minority Identity Development) Model

Answer 20

Atkinson, Morten, and Sue. 1) conformity 2) dissonance 3) resistance and immersion 4) introspection 5) synergistic

Question 21

Yalom’s 11 factors/benefits of groups

Answer 21

installation of hope, universality (recognizing that others experience similar struggles), learning and conveying information, altruism, corrective recapitulation of one’s family of origin, development of social skills (e.g., by experimenting with different ways of interacting with others), the opportunity to imitate behavior, processing existential-related concerns (e.g., search for higher purpose), cohesiveness within the group, catharsis, and interpersonal learning.

Question 22

Yalom ideal group size

Answer 22

5-10, with 7-8 being ideal

Question 23

Reality Therapy

Answer 23

Grounded in Choice Theory. Glasser (2011) believed that all “symptoms” of mental illness were essentially misguided attempts at meeting clients’ needs, especially their goals centering on personal relationships.

based on the assumption that people have five basic needs (survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun) that act as the primary source of motivation

Question 24

Personal Construct Theory

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George Kelly. Constructivist therapy that focuses on how people “construe” events and proposes that construing involves reliance on personal constructs.

Question 25

Psychoanalytic therapeutic process

Answer 25

clarification, confrontation, interpretation, working through

Question 26

Theme interference

Answer 26

Caplan. (consultee-centered consultation). Source of therapist non-objectivity. type of transference that occurs when a consultee’s unresolved conflict related to a particular type of client or situation interferes with his/her objectivity when working with similar clients or in similar situations.