Psychotherapy Flashcards
The field that studies the nature, development, and treatment of mental and behavioral disorders
Psychopathology
A theory that believes people are inherently good and acknowledges spiritual aspiration as part of the human psych
Humanistic theory
Linked to trans personal psychology
According to skinner, is defined by a set of responses to the world of stimuli and those responses are developed through operant conditioning
Personality
Modification of behavior by the reinforcing or inhibiting effect of its own consequences
Operant
Theory: the need to understand the totality of a person
Self-actualization theory by Maslow
Rogers viewed this as a dynamic phenomenon involving everchangimg communications, relationships, and self concepts
Personality
Refers to the idea that nothing happens by chance
Psychic determinism
Processing leads to
Expansion of consciousness
Processing needs to take place in the
Therapeutic window or RZ
Intense emotional reactions to painful experiences that have been repressed
Abreactions
The capacity for effective personal functioning depends on
Ego strength
Brenner; oral fear of loss of love object
Lead to denial, projection, introspection, and dissociation
Reality distorting
Brenner, fear of bodily damage; anal-Oedipal; leads to reaction formation, undoing, isolation, intellectualization
Reality respecting
Fear of disapproval; latency, can lead to displacement, sublimation, rationalization, somatization
Ego supportive
Three conditions necessary in Roger’s personal centered therapy
Unconditional positive regard
Empathic understanding
Congruence
Strives to understand the subjective experience of the patient in humanistic-existential psychotherapy
Phenomenological perspective
People are viewed as unique individuals who cannot be reduced to separate parts
Holism
Organized, consistent set of perceptions about the self, continually influenced by the experience and its interpretations
Self concept
What a person thinks about self
Self worth
How a person sees self
Self image
How a person would like to be
Ideal self
The innate drive that motivates humans to grow, develop, and strive toward self realization and fulfillment
Actualizing tendency
An individual who is fully engaged in the process or self-actualization
Fully functioning person
Affective state informs a person of important needs and prepares for action
Emotion
