Theories And Therapies Slide Flashcards
Prejudice
What you think and how you feel
Discrimination
Is actually putting thoughts to action and discriminating against someone
Mental health
State of well being in which individual realizes potential copes w normal stresses works productively contributes to community
Successful , can perform of mental and emotional functioning
Resilience
Ability to recover from or adjust successfully to stressors , loss, trauma
Defense mechanisms Freud /psychoanalytic
Repression
Denial
Projection
Displacement
Regression
Sublimation
Repression
Unconscious mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious
Ex during the oedipus complex aggressive thoughts about the same sex parents are repressed
( so they do not realize that they are doing it)
Denial
Denial involves blocking external events from awareness. If some situation is just too much to handle, the person just refuses to experience it
( they do know that they are doing it semi conscious vs conscious)
Ex. Smokers may refuse to admit to themselves tat smoking is bad for their health
Projection
This involves, individuals attributing their own unacceptable thoughts, feeling and motives to another person. ( thinking someone may not like you , but when really it’s you that dont like them)
Ex. You might hate someone, but your superego tells you that such hatred is unacceptable. You can ‘solve’ the problem by believing that they hate you
Displacement
Satisfying an impulse (e.g aggression) with a substitute object
Ex. Someone who is frustrated by his or her boss at work may go one and kick the dog
Regression
This is a movement back in psychological time when one is faced with stress
Ex. A child may begin to such their thumb again or wet the bed when they need to spend some time in the hospital
Interpersonal
Conscious - Freud
Aware
Preconscious
Lies immediately below the service but it is accessible and not completely repressed
Unconscious Freud
Is totally repressed
So unbearable and traumatic that the person cannot remember it
ID- Freud
Pleasure seeking , primitive , impulsive, and it wants immediate gratification
“Let’s go do that its fun. We dont care about the consequences”
EGO- Freud
Problem solver , uses defense mechanism , where self esteem resides and perception of self
Super ego Freud
Morality part of personality, conscience, sense of right and wrong
Free association- Freud/psychoanalytic therapy
Patient talks about whatever they want
Psychoanalytic therapy
Freud
Last years
Can be emotionally painful
Free association
Journaling
Doctor knows best
Psychodynamic
Freud
Shorter
Also includes on the left
Therapeutic relationship
Transference
Countertransference
Putting pt feelings as priority
More up to date, current than the psychoanalytic
Transference
Pt may project feelings on therapist
( if therapist is male and pt is female , female may be reminded of dad. If it is positive or negative it is projected onto the therapist)
Countertransference
Therapist unconscious response to pt ( emotional response) may not realize that they are doing it
Therapist must remain professional
Sublimation
Substituting an impulse for something else
Ex. Instead of fighting you go workout
You are channeling socially unacceptable behavior to socially acceptable behavior
13 cognitive distortions
Overgeneralization, mental filters, discounting the positive,
Jumping to conclusions, mind reading, predictive thinking,
Magnification, emotional reasoning, ‘should&must’ statements,
Labeling, personalization and blame, catastrophizing,
Black and white thinking
