TEST 1 Flashcards
The counselor should expect many years of study, training, and experience in the field to integrate various theories into a _________.
personal synthesis
The acceptance of personal responsibility does not imply that we can be anything that we want. ________, ________, __________ and ________ realities oftentimes limit our freedom of choice. (SCEB)
Social, environmental, cultural, and biological
Therapy is not exclusively for the sick, and is not aimed at curing psychological ailments, but instread provides a comprehensive approach in which the counselor goes beyond focusing on internal dynamics and addresses the ____________________________.
environmental and systemic realities that influence them.
Effective therapists can facilitate healing through a process of genuine ______.
dialogue
To be an effective therapist, a wide range of knowledge is required, both ______ and _______.
theoretical and practical
A good therapist requires human qualities of _____________ (6), they are more like technicians.
CCGFRS
compassion, caring, good faith, honesty, realness, and sensitivity
It should be impossible to separate the techniques you use from your ______ and the relationship you have with your clients.
personality
Usage of one model is in fact dangerous as it ______________.
limits a therapists’ effectiveness
A good therapist should use ________ ________ at various times during the course of an individuals therapy.
different interventions
An effective therapy is collaborative between the __________ and the ______.
counselor and the client.
Clients place more value on the _______ of the therapist rather than on the specific techniques used in therapy
personality
When working with future clients, various models and theories should be integrated. Why?
being set on one model limits effectiveness.
Corey begins with a _______ of the theory chapters, then moves into more specific details of each orientation.
broad overview
What are the experimental and relationship-oriented therapies?
Existential, Person-center, Gestalt
What are the action therapies? RCbB Reb
Reality therapy, Behavior therapy, Rational emotive behavior therapy, Cognitive (CBT) therapy
This model stresses building therapy on the basic conditions of human existence, such as choice, the freedom and responsibility to shapes one’s life, and self-determination. It focuses on the quality of the person-to-person therapeutic relationship.
Existential
________ therapy gives a primary role to thinking as it influences behavior.
Cognitive behavior therapy
this approach applies the principles of learning to the resolution of specific behavioral problems.
behavior therapy
An experimental therapy stressing awareness and integration; it grew as a reaction against analytic therapy. It integrates the functioning of body and mind.
gestalt therapy
This approach was developed during the 1940s as a non-directive reaction against psychoanalysis. Based on a subjective view of human experiencing, it places faith in and gives responsibility to the client in dealing with problems and concerns.
person-centered therapy
A highly didactic, cognitive, action-oriented model of therapy that stresses the role of thinking and belief systems as the root of personal problems.
rational emotive behavior therapy
This short-term approach is based on choice theory and focuses on the client assuming responsibility in the present. Through the therapeutic process, the client is able to learn more effective ways of meeting her or his needs.
Reality therapy
Another term for cognitive behavioral approaches is ____
action therapies
Which approach is rooted in a humanistic philosophy that emphases the basic attitude of the therapist as the core of the therapeutic process?
Person-centered (Karl Rogers, the genuine-ness of the therapist)
What are the common factors and their effectiveness of therapy?
40% Extratherapeutic factors
30% Therapeutic relationship
15% Therapeutic methods
15% Placebo Effect
The Contextual or common factors include:
- the therapeutic alliance
- the personal and
interpersonal skills of the therapist - client agency
- extra-therapeutic factors
Regarding psychotherapy treatment, outcome research suggests the _______ and the _______ are both an essential component of effective treatment, and both the therapeutic methods and the therapeutic relationship make contributions to treatment outcomes.
therapist as a person and the therapeutic relationship
To be an effective counselor, It is important to remember to be willing to ___________ rather than thinking _________.
strive to be a better person, rather than thinking that a therapist has already obtained all of the wanted traits.
Clients place more value on the __________ than the specific techniques.
personality of the therapist
There are many traits that make a good counselor, but it is important to notice that most of them are about maintaining balance, and they do not imply that a counselor ________________.
no longer has to cope with personal problems.
Effective therapists make choices that are _________.
life oriented. (feel alive, aware of early decisions they made about themselves, others and the world. they are not the victims of these choices, and they are willing to revise them if necessary. They are committed to living fully rather than settling for mere existence.)
Effective Therapists have a good __________.
sense of humor. (which includes laughing at self, they are able to put the events of life in perspective, have not forgotten how to laugh, especially at their own foibles and contradictions).
