NCE Stuff Flashcards
Last month, Rob and Rhonda, both in their early sixties, lost their home to foreclosure. Due to their age, they feel that they have no time to recover financially from their losses. Rob lost his pension when he was given the chance to retire with severance pay from his job last year. Rhonda and Rob are in your office, and Rhonda asks for your help. Rhonda informs you that Rob appears to be depressed due to the recent losses and has lost interest in her and their marriage. Rhonda also tells you that she has been unsuccessful in trying to motivate Rob in any way. Rob blames Rhonda for not agreeing to allow the family to move to Georgia to accept a position with another company saying he would still be employed if she had not stood in his way. Rhonda tells you that her entire family lives nearby. Rhonda is very close to her mother emotionally, and she does not want to move away from them. Rhonda says she is totally frustrated with the whole situation. In Bowenian therapy, your goal would be:
Help the family find the solution to their “problem”
Help Rob reframe his situation into positives and set goals for what he could be doing instead of being depressed
Help the couple experience their feelings and help them learn to care more for each other
Assess patterns of emotional reactivity (process), help Rob and Rhonda get past blaming each other for the situation, and look at their own role in the problem
Bowenian therapists help people learn to be accountable for their own actions and roles in a problem and for their relationships. Their goal is to help develop individual responsibility. People are responsible for their actions and reactions (reactivity). Helping the family find solutions to their problems is solution-focused looking at problem resolution. Experiential therapy’s goal is to help Rob and Rhonda each experience their reactions, help them learn to care more for each other, become more emotionally healthy, improving family interactions. Solution-focused therapists help clients reframe a presenting problem, reframe the problem in a positive construct, set goals for changing behavior to what the client could be doing instead of his or her current actions that are keeping him or her stuck.
The purpose of Aronson’s Jigsaw Classroom technique is to:
Mainstream children of different cultures.
Group subjects/clients according to ability/achievement levels.
Reduce intergroup conflict by facilitating rewarding, intergroup cooperation.
Fit together the missing pieces relating to culture.
Correct answer: Reduce intergroup conflict by facilitating rewarding, intergroup cooperation.
Firstly, this technique is a remarkably efficient way to learn the material. But even more important, the jigsaw process encourages listening, engagement, and empathy by giving each member of the group an essential part to play in the academic activity. Group members must work together as a team to accomplish a common goal; each person depends on all the others. No student can succeed completely unless everyone works well together as a team. This “cooperation by design” facilitates interaction among all students in the class, leading them to value each other as contributors to their common task.
Teresa leads a group in a hospital setting for family members of addicts. Today’s topic is on co-dependency and the addiction cycle. She educates on the roles played in addicted families from generation to generation. According to Yalom, Teresa has engaged:
Imparting of information
Universality
Corrective recapitulation of primary family group
Development of socializing techniques
Correct answer: Imparting of information
Explanation: Teresa has imparted information, specifically engaged in didactic instruction on the mental health/addiction topic of co-dependency. She does not ask for feedback or give the opportunity for transference relationships to grow and correct through group process, nor has she developed socializing techniques to engage the development of interpersonal skills.
Steve and Beth force their son Eddie into therapy because he is failing classes at school and acting out. What might a strategic therapist do?
Help the family recognize patterns by using a genogram.
See the problem as external.
Help the family with devising more effective problem-solving skills.
Shift family alliances.
Correct answer: Help the family with devising more effective problem-solving skills.
Explanation: Because Eddie is not doing well in school, the therapist might help the family explore ways of alternative problem-solving. The problem may or may not be related to external causes. In addition, shifting family alliances or recognizing patterns via a genogram would not help Eddie.
In the initial meeting with a client, he tells you that he feels insanely jealous and has never been so angry in his life. The reason for his anger is that his girlfriend of five years currently is seeing someone else. Your gut feelings tell you that besides being depressed, your client may suffer from poor impulse control. The first thing you should do in this situation is:
Talk to the client about confidentiality and what you might have to do depending on his disclosure.
Start therapy with the client to determine if he might harm himself or others.
Excuse yourself and call his girlfriend, indicating what you feel might happen because of your client’s state of mind.
Have the client go through a normal assessment protocol before starting therapy.
Correct answer: Talk to the client about confidentiality and what you might have to do depending on his disclosure.
Explanation: The famous Tarasoff decision (1976- Tarasoff v. Board of Regents of University of California) mandated the duty of the professional practitioner to protect by warning an identified individual or individuals when the practitioner is made aware of a threat of physical harm to said individual. In this case, the principle of confidentiality would be superseded, so the client needs to be made aware of this so that he/she does not assume incorrectly that the practitioner is bound to confidentiality in this matter.
What is the basic function of Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972?
Your answer: No answer
Correct answer: To prohibit discrimination in educational agencies and institutions that accept federal assistance.
Explanation: Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination in educational agencies and institutions that accept federal assistance.
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If Millon, MMPI, and CAT scores are used to predict GPA in a psychology program, then the statistical technique used to accomplish this would be: Z scores Analysis of covariance Correlation Multiple regression
Correct answer: Multiple regression
Explanation: Multiple regression analysis is used to predict the outcome of a dependent variable (GPA) based on several independent variables, or, in this case, test scores. Analysis of covariance compares groups while controlling for a covariant. Z-scores indicate how far away any given score is from the standardized mean. Lastly, correlation determines the relationship between two variables.
The Tarasoff decision does not have a significant effect on which one of the following issues: Privileged communication Confidentiality Malpractice liability Assessment procedures
Correct answer: Assessment procedures
Explanation: The Tarasoff decision (1976, Tarasoff v. Board of Regents of University of California) mandates that when practitioners become aware of a threat of physical harm to an identifiable individual or individuals, they incur a duty to take some action to protect the intended victim from their client. This decision supersedes the principle of confidentiality or privilege: in fact, a practitioner can be found liable for malpractice if he/she fails to warn the potential victim/s or proper authorities if the public welfare is threatened by a client.
Zunker, in his analysis of reasons why career planning and development centers are not focused in their mission and goals in high schools, indicates all of the following except:
There is a lack of training in the career counseling area for children.
Models for working with children do not exist.
Children are not interested in career counseling until much later in their lives.
Goals and functions of career-placement programs for children are lacking.
Correct answer: Children are not interested in career counseling until much later in their lives.
Explanation: Zunker found that models, goals, and training for the career development of children are lacking. He also found that children are interested in career counseling at a young age.
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms
Repression - consciously/unconsciously forgotten
Projection - illicit desires in freudian theory / you take what you think is unacceptable and project them in another way (e.g. saying other people are overly sexual when you yourself feel that way and don’t want to claim responsibility)
Displacement - transferring feelings that you’re having from one person to a “safer” one. (e.g. getting treated badly by person X and then going to a friend/family member and taking it out on them).
Rationalization/Intellectualization - explaining away a negative situation/consequence || making an excuse to exonerate you from internal/external blame.
Reaction Formation - Turning unacceptable impulses/feelings into the exact opposite. This becomes a way to protect self-respect and self-esteem.
Denial - deny having unacceptable impulses/feelings
Regression - when you’re feeling overwhelmed/threatened, you regress to an earlier psychosexual stage where you felt safer, happier and more secure
Sublimation - taking inappropriate feelings/urges and putting them to use in a setting where they can be beneficial to yourself and/or society. (e.g. a violent person becomes a professional boxer, a person with lustful thoughts toward a person can become an expressive artist/musician, etc.).
