Psychosocial Theories and Therapy Flashcards
Supports the notion that all human behavior is caused and can be explained (deterministic theory).
Psychoanalytic Theories (Sigmund Freud)
Part of one’s nature that reflects the basic or innate desires such as pleasure-seeking behavior, aggression, and sexual impulses.
ID
Part of a person’s nature that reflects moral and ethical concepts, values, and parenteral and social expectations.
Superego
Refers to the perception, thoughts, and emotions that exist in the person’s awareness, such as being aware of happy feeling or thinking about a loved one.
Conscious
Balancing or mediating force between the ID and the SUPEREGO
Ego
Thoughts and emotions are not currently in the person’s awareness but she/he can recall them with some effort.
Preconscious
The realm of thoughts and feelings that motivate a person even though he or she is totally unaware of them.
Unconscious
A primary method used in psychoanalysis, it involves discussing a client’s dreams to discover their true meaning and significance.
Dream Analysis
The therapist tries to uncover the client’s true and thoughts and feelings by saying a word and asking the client to respond quickly with the first thing comes to mind.
Free Association
Occurs when the client displaces into the therapist, feeling and attitudes that the client originally experiences in other relationship.
Transference
Occurs when the therapist displaces into the client, attitudes, or feelings intended for somebody else.
Countertransference
One’s personality involves more than individual characteristic particularly how one interacts with other.
Interpersonal Theories (Harry Stack Sullivan)
The consent of this therapy involved clients interaction with the another practicing interpersonal relationship skills, giving feedback to one another, working cooperatively as a group to solve day to day problem.
Therapeutic Community (Milieu)
Focusing on a person’s positive qualities, his or her capacity or change (human potential) and the promotion of self-esteem.
Humanistic Theory
Believes that behavioral deviation results when a person is out of touch with himself or herself or the environment.
Existential Theories
Identifies with irrational beliefs that makes people unhappy.
Rational-Emotive Theory (Albert Ellis)
Focuses on the person’s behavior and how that behavior keeps him or her from achieving life goals.
Reality Therapy (William Glasser)
The direct application of physical force to a person without permission, to restrict his or her freedom of movement.
Restraint
The involuntary confinement of a person in a specially constructed, locked room equipped with a security window or camera for client directing monitoring.
Seclusion
A taxonomy published by the APA, it describes all mental disorders, outlining specific diagnostic criteria for each based n clinical experience and research.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM-IV-TR)
