Midterm Flashcards

1
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Emotion

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  • an inferred complex sequence of responses to a stimulus
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Emotion includes

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  • cognitive evaluations
  • subjective feeling states
  • autonomic arousal (neural and/or hormonal)
  • impulses to action
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3
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Emotions are:

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response mechanisms that help the organism adapt to situations and/or maintain a balanced psychic economy.

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4
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Affect

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the physiological aspect of an emotion

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5
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Feeling

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the subjective state or experience of an emotion.

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6
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“experience” in Rogerian

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has become a hallmark of client-centered therapy

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7
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experiencing is associated with:

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(if only implicitly) towards a more complete and accurate symbolization (meaning making) process.

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8
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Emotion is:

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Union of cognition and affect in the moment

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9
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Key element of change is:

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Both release of expression of personal feeling and development of insight into the nature of ones difficulties

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10
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Levels of Affect

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9 levels

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Level one

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Basic Awareness of Affect: is the client aware of the presence of affect?

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Level Two

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Basic Inner Experience of Affect: Can the client identify a physiological experience of affect?

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Level Three

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Labeling of Basic Affect: Does the client know how to label the physiological experience of affect?

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Level Four

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Identification of Default Affect: has the client avoided developing affect?

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Level Five

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Identification of Affect Intensity: Does the client recognize shades of affect?

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Level Six

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Identification of Mixed and Conflicted Affect: Does the client recognized mixed or conflicted affect?

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Level Seven

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Identification of Underlying Affect: Can the client differentiate base affect?

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Level Eight

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Acceptance of Affect: Can the client accept experienced affect?

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Level Nine

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Understanding of Affect: Does the client understand origin and role of experienced affect?

20
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Considerations with affect

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Assess level, begin work with client at that level

21
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Treatment Planning - the process

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  • referral question
  • Intake Interview
  • Case Conceptualization
  • treatment plan
  • effective therapy
22
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the plan

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treatment setting
time limitations
theoretical orientation
client preferences

23
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Person-centered treatment planning

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  • move for incongruence to congruence
  • identify cause of
  • identify obstacles
  • Respect rights of client to plan for him or herself
  • Provide a safe environment for disclosure and exploration
  • identify client strengths
  • identify client weaknesses
24
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include

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mmse
presenting problem
history
diagnosis
theoretical orientation
treatment plan and course
diversity considerations
legal and ethical issues
prognosis
25
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Treatment goal

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  • desired end product
  • few goals
    -longer term
    “symptoms of depression will decreased by (80%) and will no longer interfere with Jill’s daily functioning. This will be measured by a score of 14 or below on the BDI.”
26
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treatment objective

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the steps for reaching the "end product"
- identify
-explore
-decrease
-increase
shorter term
"attend weekly sessions with therapist"
"establish a safe and trusting relationship between Jill and so and so"
"identify triggers for symptoms"
"connect symptoms with beliefs about self"
27
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treatment modalities (tools)

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restatement
paraphrase
reflection
safe environment
congruence
28
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joining on a journey

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the safety within the session provides the power to the client to disclose and explore

29
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role of therapist

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  • establish a therapeutic relationship with the client
  • develop a safe environment for a client to create congruence
  • seek self-actualization
  • provide upr
  • exhibit genuineness
  • guide session via reflections, observations, emotional attunement and non-verbal behaviors
30
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PCT conceptualization

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  • experiencing maladjustment through incongruence
  • lacks positive experiences in identifying and embracing basic daily needs due to poor self-concept
  • ideal self is based upon feeling of never being good enough
  • feeling alone and inadequate
  • struggles to establish positive identity and self-worth
31
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The Fully Functioning Person

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  • Openness to experience
  • Existential Living
  • Organismic Trust
  • Experiential Freedom
  • Creativity
32
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Personality in PC

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Experience: what we gain through our five senses and affective experiences
Self-Structure/Self-concept: a person’s conceptual construct of self; organizing experience

33
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How Do We Develop

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  • There is an actualizing tendency
  • The person negotiates between the actualizing tendency and social constraints
  • The actualizing process involves the ongoing negotiation between the actualizing tendency and the constraints of the social field.
  • “Disorder” occurs when the actualizing process is stuck
34
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Processes in the Actualizing Process

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Difficult Process

Fragile Process

35
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Difficult Process

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making sense of their social experiencing while facing inhibiting developmental circumstances

36
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Fragile Process

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Empathic failure in early life (non-existent feedback, minimal, or distorted)

  • great consequence is difficulty connecting with experiencing or:
  • great intensity in experiencing
  • Difficulty staying present to experience while taking another’s point of view
  • Dissociated Process: defense against early trauma
  • Difficult process is the result of actualizing process
37
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Configurations

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Symbolized self in a pluralistic fashion. Good me bad me, weak me strong me

  • may be introjects (internalized messaging about the self)
  • may be around dissonant self-experiences
  • may interrelate and reconfigure