Theoretical Models, Therapies, and Nursing Theories Flashcards
Mental processes out of awareness but easily recalled.
Preconscious
Mental processes that are within awareness.
Conscious
Mental processes that are inaccessible but influence behavior and feelings.
Unconscious
Pleasure principle, locus of biological drives/instincts, unconscious.
Id
Reality principle, mediates between Id and Superego.
Ego
Perfection principle, forms conscience by holding social values and more.
Superego
Force or impetus to fulfill basic biologic needs; includes libido and aggression; instinctive and unconscious.
Drive
Strong feelings of worry and dread.
Anxiety
Adaptive and maladaptive behaviors of sleeping, smoking, cursing, fidgeting, drinking, laughing, talking, eating, crying, pacing, nail-biting, daydreaming, exercise, seeking answers.
Relief behaviors for stress/anxiety
Unconscious processes to decrease anxiety; include compensation, denial, displacement, identification, intellectualization, introjection, isolation, projection, rationalization, regression, sublimation, suppression, undoing.
Defense mechanisms
To offer interference with exploring unconscious mental processes.
Resistance
Therapies with an emphasis on past, focus on expression of emotions, identification of patterns and ways to change, working with resistance, considering intrapsychic issues such as dreams and fantasies, emphasis on transference and working alliance. Conflicts from past continue to influence present; goal is to develop alternatives to patterns of managing anxiety.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy
Overachievement in one area to compensate for failure in another area.
Compensation
Refusal to accept reality or facts.
Denial
Satisfying an impulse or relieving anxiety with a substitute object/person. Ex. yelling at coworker after getting yelled at by boss.
Displacement
Minimizing threatening individuals or behaviors by emulating aspects of their behavior, possibly adopting their mannerisms, repeating phrases or language patterns and mirroring character traits.
Identification
Standing back from stressor and evaluating from neutral view.
Intellectualization
Adopting environmental stimuli as own ideas or beliefs (i.e. religion, politics). May also be replicating observed behaviors (sibling-to-sibling, parent-to-child).
Introjection
Separating ideas or feelings from other thoughts (compartmentalizing).
Isolation
Transferring ideas, fears, anxieties onto others. Ex. person afraid of crossing a bridge might accuse friend of a fear of heights in effort to avoid stressor without owning insecurity.
Projection
Explanations or excuses for behavior; minimizing consequences/impact of behavior.
Rationalization
Reverting to behaviors from earlier age/time.
Regression
Transference of negative/destructive anxiety into positive energy/socially-acceptable behaviors. Ex. releasing aggression through organized sports.
Sublimation
Conscious attempt to redirect thinking away from negative or stressful thoughts to other thoughts/feelings. Ex. suppression of feelings/thoughts of attraction toward friend’s spouse.
Suppression
Attempts to rectify behaviors that cause guilt or shame through acts or apologies.
Undoing
Pointing out, explaining, and teaching meaning of behavior manifested in dreams, free associations, resistances, and therapeutic alliance itself.
Interpretation
Patients flow with any feelings and/or thoughts by reporting such things immediately without censorship.
Free association
Interpersonal relationships determine self-esteem, sense of security, and sense of self. Anxiety is disruptive force in interpersonal relations and Interpersonal Security is feelings associated with relief from anxiety/sense of well-being. Difficulty in living comes from inability to satisfy needs to achieve interpersonal security.
Interpersonal theory (Harry Stack Sullivan)
Integration of the “good me”, “bad me”, and “not me”, self-systems which are collections of experiences or security measures to protect against anxiety. Major themes include dealing with grief, role disputes, role transitions, and interpersonal conflicts like an inability to sustain close relationships.
Interpersonal theory (Stack Sullivan)
Develops in response to positive feedback, feelings of pleasure, contentment, and gratification.
Good me (Stack Sullivan)
Develops in response to negative feedback, feelings of anxiety, discomfort, displeasure, and distress.
Bad me (Stack Sullivan)
Develops in response to intense anxiety, feelings or horror, dread, awe, and loathing. Denial of these feelings is used to relieve anxiety, leading to serious implications for disorders in adult life.
Not me (Stack Sullivan)
Measures used to reduce anxiety and enhance security, making up a system of defense against anxiety.
Security operations (Stack Sullivan)
Not attending to meaningful details of one’s own living that might cause anxiety.
Selective inattention
Putting threatening thoughts or feelings out of awareness before triggering overwhelming and intolerable anxiety sets in.
Dissociation - in Stack Sullivan
Focus on past and current decision-making, emphasis on thinking, feelings, and behavioral aspects of personality. Ego states of Parent (shoulds/oughts), Adult (objective processor of data), and Child (feelings/impulses). Goal is to assist patient in making new decisions about present behavior/life, gaining new insight.
Transactional analysis (Eric Berne)
Forms of recognition when one person recognizes another. Positive, conditional, unconditional, negative, games, rackets, life scripts.
Stroke (Berne)
Person becomes aware of content and functioning of the parent, adult, and child ego states.
Structural analysis
Description of what people do, say to themselves, and say to each other.
Transactional analysis (definition)
Imagining past situations and influence of significant others in the interactions.
Family modeling
Identification of rituals and pastimes that are used in structuring time.
Analysis of rituals and pastimes (Berne)
Means for understanding transactions with others (1) and identification/analysis of life patterns (2).
1 - Analysis of games and rackets, 2 - script analysis (Berne)