Test 2 Flashcards
What do children need?
Unconditional positive regard.
What is the exploration stage influenced by?
Carl roger’s yheory of personality development and psychological change.
What does phenomenology place emphasis on?
Experiences, feelings, values, and the inner life of the client. All people have the potential for healthy and creative growth - Rogers.
What is the basic motivational force?
Tendency towards self actualization. This is an inherent ability. We are resilient and have potentiality blueprints.
What is the OVP?
Organismic valuing process. Evaluation of each experience of how it makes you feel, not how you should feel. No experiences are more or less worthy.
This leads to self actualization and seeking enhancing experiences.
When do children feel unconditional positive regard?
When their experiences are consistent with feedback from others.
What happens if you have too many COWs?
You will not be open to experience, accepting of feelings, capable of living in the present, free to make choices, trusting, capable of feeling aggression and affection, and capable of creativity.
What do COWs do to the self?
Cause a conflicted sense of self. It may be weakened to the point where you cannot recognize it experience feelings as belonging to the self.
This happens if OVP is disabled, and externally imposed values substitute.
What are COWs?
Conditions of worth. They may cause the sacrifice f the OVP for love.
What does incongruent lead to?
Inauthentic expressions of feelings. Low self regard, defensiveness, anxiety, depression. You will feel threatened with more distortion.
Children must…?
Become socialized to live in families and society. Others have needs that conflict with theirs. Manner of socialization is crucial. Empathize but place limits.
What guides behavior?
Subjective internal experience Guides behavior not external reality. This varies between people.
What is perceptual distortion?
Altering or miss interpreting one’s experience to make it compatible with one’s self-concept. This is a defense mechanism
What is denial and how can it be harmful to the self?
Denial is a defense mechanism that can take a toll on the self.
- the subjective reality can become incongruent with the external reality
- a person might develop a rigidity a perception in areas in which he or she is had to defend against perceiving reality
- or the real self can become incongruent with the ideal self suggesting a discrepancy between who one is and who one wishes to be
How can you overcome disintegration rigidity or discrepancies between real and ideal selves?
Become aware of the distorted or denied experience. you need to reduce the CEO W’s and increased positive self regard by getting it from others. This is reintegration and it may trigger defense mechanisms.
Can a person reintegrate without unconditional positive regard from another person?
Yes if there’s minimal threat to the self and the incongruity between self and experience is minor
What does a helper do to try and help in the exploration stage?
Enter the client’s subjective world and understand their internal frame of reference. they also try to provide an experience in which the client is excepted and cared for without CO W’s
Can a therapeutic relationship itself be beneficial and produce growth?
Yes!
What are the six conditions necessary for change to occur?
- The client and helper must be in psychological contact
- the client must be in a state of incongruence
- the helper must be genuine or integrated in the relationship
- the helper must feel unconditional positive regard to the client and value all feelings though not all behaviors and place no judgment
- helper must experience empathy for the client and
- client must experience the helpers congruence unconditional regard and empathy
Are client centered therapy and humanistic therapy just as effective as other approaches to psychotherapy?
Yes
What are the goals for the exploration stage?
- Establishing rapport and a trusting relationship
- attending listening and observing
- helping client explored her thoughts and narratives
- Facilitating expression of emotion and
- learning about clients
What is congruence?
Genuineness. being open to their own experiences and genuinely available to clients
What you make your relationship stronger?
Rupture and repair
What is important for clients to focus on in regards to feelings?
What they’re feeling right now and putting those thoughts into words.
What does emotional arousal do?
Stimulates change
Is the exploration stage all that is needed for helping?
And Rogers view yes and for some clients.
Which are the most frequently used skills?
Exploration skills
What is attending?
Orienting physically towards clients to communicate their paying attention to the client feel safe.
What is a releaser?
The behavior that elicits the same response from another person like a smile
Should you be too attentive?
NO AND DONT JUST FAKE IT
What is kinesics?
The relationship of bodily movements to communication. Emblems are substitutes for words, illustrators accompany speech. Regulators monitor conversation flow. Adaptions are unconscious habits with no purpose.
What does too many adapters or an inappropriate use of emblems, illustrators, or regulators mean?
Nonverbal leakage. Does not want to communicate or is trying to hide,
But leaks out.
How much do normal people make eye contact?
28 to 70% for no more than one second at a time.
Facial expressions around the world?
Many share same meaning. blind children use same as well. Happiness is expressed with mouth, fear and anger mostly with eyes.
What is proxemics?
How people use space in interactions.
