Psychotherapies

Question 1

Thoughts, feelings and behavior are all connected, and that individuals can move toward overcoming difficulties and meeting their goals by identifying and changing unhelpful or inaccurate thinking, problematic behavior, and distressing emotional responses.

Answer 1

Cognitive Therapy by Beck

Question 2

The therapist and client work as equals. The therapist must demystify therapy from the beginning to show the client that she is her own rescuer, and the expectations, roles, and responsibilities of both client and therapist must be explored and equally agreed upon. The therapist recognizes that with every symptom a client has, there is a strength.

Answer 2

Feminist Therapy

Question 3

Therapist joins with family through mimesis then moves to tracking and maintenance, then evaluation (family map) then intervening through unbalancing, reframing, boundary making, enactment.

Answer 3

Structural Family Therapy by Minuchin

remember U in structure and MinUchin

Question 4

Combines systems thinking with the view that mind is made up of relatively discrete sub-personalities each with its own viewpoint and qualities.

Answer 4

Internal Family Systems Model

Question 5

Humans do not get emotionally disturbed by unfortunate circumstances, but by how they construct their views of these circumstances through their language, evaluative beliefs, meanings and philosophies about the world, themselves and others.

Answer 5

Rational Emotive Therapy by Ellis

Question 6

Subsystems; boundaries; power hierarchy; enmeshed or disengaged; rigid family triads = stable coalition, unstable coalition / triangulation, detouring

Answer 6

Structural Family Therapy by Minuchin

(remember U in structure and MinUchin)

stable coalition = 1 parent excluded;
unstable / triangulation = tug of war with kid
Detouring = blaming kid for parental problems

Question 7

Power; control; hierarchies; stages of initial session = social, problem, interactional, goal-setting, paradoxical directies

Answer 7

Strategic Family Therapy by Haley

Question 8

Focuses on problem-solving and making better choices in order to achieve specific goals; focused on the here and now rather than the past.

Answer 8

Reality Therapy by Glasser

Question 9

Concerned with the exploration of relationships between real and external people as well as internal images and the relations found in them.

Answer 9

Object Relations Therapy

Question 10

No diagnosis; dominant discourse, unique outcomes, “sparkling moments” exteranlize, opening space questions

Answer 10

Narrative Therapy by White and Epston

Question 11

A goal-directed collaborative approach to psychotherapeutic change that is conducted through direct observation of clients’ responses to a series of precisely constructed questions; focuses on addressing what clients want to achieve without exploring the history and provenance of problem(s).

Answer 11

Solution-focused Therapy

Question 12

Restructure family by unbalancing / reorganizing / disrupting dysfunctional patterns, promoting behavior change rather than insight,

Answer 12

Structural Family Therapy by Minuchin

remember U in structure and MinUchin

Question 13

Replace problematic stories with alternative stories that support more satisfying and preferred outcomes. Use of therapeutic letters, certificates, and ceremonies.

Answer 13

Narrative Therapy by White and Epston

Question 14

Alter family rules and communication patterns that maintain problematic behavior, help family develop communication patterns that increase ability to adapt and change and increase awareness through circular questioning.

Answer 14

Strategic Family Therapy by Haley

Question 15

Homeostatic rules; circular questioning; rituals; paradoxical interventions;

Answer 15

Systematic Family Therapy by Milan

Question 16

Paradoxical interventions; double binds; prescribing the symptoms; symmetrical and complementary interactions

Answer 16

Communication Therapy by Bateson & Satir

Question 17

Differentiation; emotional triangles; multigenerational transmission process; emotionally fused; genogram

Answer 17

Extended Family Systems by Bowen

Question 18

The overall goal of the therapy is to establish a relationship between client and community in order not only to challenge the client’s unhealthy and unrealistic thoughts of the world, but also to challenge them to replace self-defeating behaviors for ones that will lead to a more positive and healthy lifestyle.

Answer 18

Adlerian Therapy

Question 19

Alter the family rules and communication patterns that maintain bad behavior, help family develop communication patterns that increase ability to adapt and change. Increase awareness through circular questioning.

Answer 19

Systematic Family Therapy by Milan

Question 20

Improve communication, confront double binds

Answer 20

Communication Therapy by Bateson & Satir

Question 21

Increase family members differentiation, defuse emotions, alter triangulated relations.

Answer 21

Extended Family Systems by Bowen

Question 22

Emphasizes personal responsibility, and focuses upon the individual’s experience in the present moment, the therapist–client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person’s life, and the self-regulating adjustments people make as a result of their overall situation.

Answer 22

Gestalt Therapy by Perls

Question 23

Individuation, symbols, the personal unconscious, the collective unconscious, archetypes, complexes, the persona, the shadow, the anima and animus, and the self.

Answer 23

Analytical or Jungian Therapy