Study Guide Exam #1 Flashcards
What is the difference in Professional and Personal counseling?
- Professional – guided by ethics, scientifically informed, measurable, accountable
- Personal – Based on relationship, guided by client, vulnerable, sensitive to individual difference
Describe Eysenck’s (1952) famous study.
- Reviewed 24 studies (1952)
- Psychodynamic therapy (44%)
- Eclectic psychotherapy (64%)
- Those who received therapy improved less than those in the comparison group (hospitals)
What were the field’s response to Eysenck’s claims?
- Supporters said empirical research couldn’t measure benefits
- Skeptics said any improvement was a placebo effect
List the scope of counseling.
- Relationship Dysfunction
- Family Dysfunction
- Life Stage Transitions
- Existential Crisis
- Personal Growth
- Spiritual Direction
What is the “true nature” of psychotherapy ?
- Fewer therapist identify with a single therapy
- Professional answer to what approach they use:
1. Integrative Psychodynamic Therapy (IPT)
2. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) → This includes ICBT, psychodynamic and so on
Describe the Therapy “journey”
- Assessment/Diagnosis – “The Traveler”
- Case Conceptualization – “The map”
- Theory and Treatment Plan – “The route”
- Goals – “The destination”
What is the Dodo Bird Conjecture?
Wampold’s & Smith & Glass
- Diverse approaches to psychotherapy appeared to be rather similar in their effectiveness
- “Everyone has won, and all must have prizes”
- Most forms of psychotherapy tend to have similar rates of efficacy
What are the phases of counseling?
- Relationship building
- Assessment/Diagnosis
- Planning
- Intervention
- Termination
- Follow-up (if possible)
During the assessment/diagnosis phase of counseling, what do the client and counselor work to develop an understanding of?
- The problems or concerns the client wants to address
- The ways in which the client’s cognitive and emotional attitudes, decision-making, capabilities, and behaviors are contributing to the problems or concerns troubling the client;
- The changes that might be necessary to address the problems;
- What needs to happen for the desired change to take place
What does the planning phase of counseling, include?
- Development of treatment plan
- Prioritize concerns
- Establish a mutually agreed-upon set of goals
What does the intervention phase of counseling, include?
- Work to achieve the agreed upon goals
- Establish a number of specific, measurable objectives
- Monitor and discuss the client’s progress
SMART
specific, measurable, attainable, reliable, time bound
Describe the termination phase of counseling.
- The therapist or the client initiate discussion of termination
- Termination begins before the final session
- The progress that has been made in achieving the goals they set for therapy
- The personal assets/growth the client has developed for dealing with future problems
- Plan for future issues
What is the most important phase of counseling?
Relationship building
What are the three elements of counseling according to Frank & Frank (1993)?
- “Healing” agent = therapist
- “Sufferer” = individual, couple, family, group
- Healing relationship = series of structured contact
What are the the three historical contributions to counseling?
- Religiomagical
- Rhetorical
- Empirical/Naturalistic
Describe Religiomagical contribution to counseling.
- Priests, Shamans, Religious healers
- Emphasized ritual, community connection, and introspection
- Connection: to each other, to ancestors, to spirits, etc.
- Value of culture and belief
Describe Rhetorical contribution to counseling.
- *Reason & Logic could be used to persuade for the good
- Greek “noble” rhetoric – aimed at persuading toward the “good”
- Plato “noble” rhetoric sought out sophrosyne: “ a beautiful harmonic and rightful ordering of all ingredients of psychic life, by strengthening will, reorganizing beliefs, or by eliciting new beliefs more noble than the old.”
- Aristotle: rhetoric: involves:
• Emotional stimulation
• Logic based argument
Describe Empirical/Naturalistic contribution to counseling.
- Value “sensory evidence”
- Hippocrates – “mental-illness” can be “cured” like all other ailments
- Mental illness not personal/spiritual deficit – should be “treated”
- Science should guide our practices - systematic
- Freud, Jung, Pavlov, Skinner, Watson, etc.
Describe the original context in which Freud’s work began.
1856-1939
- In 1985 he wrote “ Project for a Scientific Psychology” with the intention of developing a psychology that would be a natural science.
- In 1885, Freud went to Paris to study under Jean Martin Charcot who implemented Hypnotic Suggestion.
- He watched Charcot induce, and then cure, hysterical paralyses in patients through “hypnotic suggestion”
- Freud came to the states to use this technique on his own client’s but found it wasn’t working. Some of his patients resisted even his attempts to hypnotize them.
- Freud realized that hysterical symptoms, such as nervous coughs or partial paralysis, disappeared through the patient’s recall of repressed memories and expressing them.
- Freud was an early proponent of hypnotic therapy, but he gradually abandoned that practice in favor or a treatment based on intensive introspection using free association, a practice where the client is encouraged to say whatever comes to mind with as little censorship as possible.
- Freud’s treatment involved the analysis of defenses to bring unconscious pathogenic ideas into consciousness, where they can be integrated with the rest of mental life.
• He called this PSYCHOANALYSIS
Describe Freud’s work with Anna O.
Anna O. → Hysteria symptoms
- absences: gap in her train of conscious thought
- Psychotic conflict: one part conscious, one part unconscious
- Aim for psychoanalytic treatment became bringing what had been repressed, unconscious, and forgotten to conscious recognition.
Describe the original context in which Jung’s work began.
(1875 - 1961)
- Dissertation on the “Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena”
- Argued that psychic powers emerge from psychological states and have nothing to do with the supernatural.
- Was the first to apply psychoanalysis to severe mental illness
• More structured than freud. - Jung developed a perspective that assumed a cultural-historical and methodological orientation.
- Jung read about Freud’s free association and later hypothesized that the longer the association took, the more distress the client became in relation to that specific word.
- Jung read Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams (1903) and realized that the concept of repression, matched his own ideas.
Jung uses the word “complex” define this term as he would.
Cause of patients distress
What are the basic tenets of Freudian psychotherapy?
- Psychoanalysis
- Concentration: Unconscious of Individual
- Unconscious, Preconscious, Conscious
- Dreams as window into unconscious
- Drives: attached to somatic functions (oral, anal, and genital)
- Defense Mechanisms
- Reversal into its opposite
- Turning Round
- Repression
- Sublimation
- Structure of the Mind
- id, ego, superego
What are the basic tenets of Jungian psychotherapy?
- Analytical Psychology
- Concentration: Collective Unconscious (archetypes)
- Structure of Unconscious
- Personal
- Collective
- Archetypes
- Dreams: a way to compensate for all that the conscious mind is not aware of
- Personality Development
- Psychological Types: Extravert & Introvert
- Four rational types
1. extraverted thinking/introverted thinking
2. extraverted feeling/ introverted feeling
List Freud’s Basic Model of the mind
- unconscious → Not available to consciousness; we are unaware of it
- preconscious → available to the conscious, if we turn our attention to it.
i. e. Memory of weather on the day we worked on an assignment - conscious → We are aware of the thought or feeling
List Freud’s Basic Psychosexual Development
- Oral
- Anal
- Phallic
- Genital
What happens in the Oral phase of Freud’s Basic Psychosexual Development?
- 0 -1 year
- Mouth, lips, and tongue
- Nursing from mother’s breast
- Self-preservation instinct of feeding and nourishment blends with the pleasure of feeding
- Later in life this pleasure is repeated in thumb sucking and cigarette smoking
What happens in the Anal phase of Freud’s Basic Psychosexual Development?
- 1 - 3 years
- Toilet Training
- Person who is controlling, orderly, stingy, and often obsession with cleanliness
What happens in the Oral Phallic of Freud’s Basic Psychosexual Development?
- 3 - 6 years
- Resolve Oedipus
- Oedipus complex occurs during the phallic phase, roughly between five and seven years of age, and represents the peak of infantile sexuality.
What happens in the Genital of Freud’s Basic Psychosexual Development?
- 12 + years
- Develops more fully in adolescence
- Gathering and unification of the partial or competent drives under the primacy of the genital zone in the service of reproduction
List Freud’s neurotic character types.
- Hysterical = Somatic
- Obsessive-compulsive = rumination
- Narcissistic = self-absorbed
- Sadomasochistic = “It hurts… and I like it”
Discuss the differences between Freud & Jung.
Freud:
• Focused on the unconscious individual
- Psychoanalysis
- Believed dreams are the window into the unconscious; in addition to being fulfillments of wishes
- Understanding of drives are attached to somatic functions (oral, anal, and genital)
Jung:
• Focused on the collective individual
• Analytical Psychology
- Viewed dreams as compensatory, in that the functioned to maintain psychic equilibrium
- Archetypes
* Based on an inherited predisposition to create significant myths out of ordinary everyday human experiences - Dreams are residues of archaic modes of functioning rooted in the collective past of humankind rather than the individual’s past
- A way to compensate for all that the conscious mind is not aware of
What is the BIG DIFFERENCE between Freud & Jung…
- Freud concentrated on the unconscious of the individual and
- Jung’s focus was on the collective unconscious and the imaginative life of the humanity as a whole
- Another difference between them was that Jung never had an interest in the study of animal behavior or physiology, whereas Freud continued to draw on these disciplines.
What are the criticisms of early psychoanalysis.
- very little evidence to support many claims
- I.e. all boys lust after their mother
- Misogynistic
- Over emphasis on sex and aggression
- Absence of “relationship”
• Therapists should be a “blank screen” - No limits to therapy
- Big commitment for both therapist and client.
Describe treatment efficacy
How treatment performs in controlled clinical research (RCT)
Describe treatment effectiveness.
How the treatment actually works in the community with real clients and real psychotherapists (i.e. effective)