Theories

Question 1

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Answer 1

The client learns to accept life’s challenges/pain, identify personal values, & commit to behavior guided by and aligned with values

Question 2

Adlerian Therapy Techniques

Answer 2

Therapy involved identifying and exploring faulty logic and life goals. Develop a sense of belonging. Have a private logic or unconscious beliefs that create subjective final goal. How is client compensating for feelings of inferiority? Importance of birth order.
-Spitting in soup
-acting as if

Question 3

Premack Principle

Answer 3

Behavioral therapy technique to increase motivation to do something. Set a “cost” to get something you enjoy. Example: You aren’t motivated to exercise but you really like CSI. Those “cost” to watch CSI is 20 minutes of exercise.

Question 4

Gestalt Therapy Techniques

Answer 4

Experiential learning that focuses on the here-and-now awareness and resolving unfinished business
-Empty Chair
-Dreamwork
-Exaggeration (movements, behaviors, etc.)
-Staying with the feeling

Individuals have the capacity to self-regulate when they are aware of what is going on inside and around them. Authentic change occurs when we learn to be who we are and not who we are not. Importance of holism.

Question 5

Sublimation (psychoanalytic)

Answer 5

the process of taking an unacceptable impulse and converting it into a socially acceptable form of expression. Ex: channeling anger into exercise.

Question 6

Logotherapy

Answer 6

Logotherapy is a psychological approach developed by Viktor Frankl that focuses on helping individuals find meaning in their lives. It emphasizes the individual’s will to meaning and finding fulfillment from within rather than relying solely on outside sources of pleasure or gratification. One technique used in logotherapy involves values awareness exercises that help clients identify, prioritize and live life according to their own values and beliefs.