Theories of Counseling and the Helping Relationship Flashcards
Psychoanalysis is both a ________ and a very comprehensive _______.
Treatment; Personality Theory.
Eric Berne’s Transactional Analysis (TA) posits 3 ego states. What are they?
- The Child.
- The Adult.
- The Parent.
What 3 components of Freud’s structural theory correspond to Eric Berne’s components of TA?
- Freud’s Id = Berne’s Child
- Freud’s Ego= Berne’s Adult
- Freud’s Superego =Berne’s Parent.
What is the Wooden Leg, a term used in Transactional Analysis?
In TA, a person who’s caretaker left or died at an early age might be plagued with what TA refers to as the “Incomplete Parent.” This person could expect others to parent him, and use lack of parenting as an excuse.
In Freud’s Phallic stage, if the child has successful resolution of the Oedipus Complex, what is the result?
Success at the Phallic Stage leads to the development of the Superego, and identification with the aggressor, the parent of the same sex.
In Freud’s structural theory, what component is described as the executive administrator of the personality, and the reality principle/
The ego.
In Freudian theory, a client who threatens a self-destructive act is being ruled primarily by what?
Thanatos, meaning a death wish.
What is the Freudian term which is described by the love of life, or self preservation?
Eros.
When a Freudian therapist asks a client to say whatever comes to mind, what is being practiced?
Free Association.
Joseph Wolpe developed this paradigm, which is useful when trying to weaken a client’s response to an anxiety-producing stimuli.
Systematic Desensitization.
Systematic Desensitization is classed as what type of therapy?
Behavioral therapy.
Freud analyzed dreams. He found that dreams have two types of content. What are they?
- Latent Content, which is hidden meaning of the dream.
2. Manifest Content, which is the literal meaning of the dream.
When a client projects feelings toward a therapist, that he or she originally had toward a significant other, what is this called?
Transference.
What is the term which refers to the process of making a client aware of something, which was previously unknown? It’s also described as increased self-knowledge and a novel sudden understanding of a problem.
Insight.
Little Albert is associated with what school of psychology?
Behaviorism. John B. Watson to be specific.
Who is Anna O?
Anna O was the first psychoanalytic patient. She was a patient of Freud and Bruer. She suffered from hysteria, but the 2 docs saw that while under hypnosis, she spoke freely, and this lead to coining the talking cure. Anna’s symptoms of hysteria decreased.
Who was Little Hans?
Freud’s experiment with a 5 year old boy. They made the kid afraid to cross the street, for fear of being bitten by a horse or castrated. It was Freud’s answer to Watson’s Little Albert.
The Psychoanalytic technique which has the client talk about their difficulties in order to purge emotions and feelings is known as what?
Catharsis/abreaction.
What are the components which make up Freud’s Topographical theory?
- Conscious
- Preconscious
- Unconcscious
Who is Daniel Paul Schreber?
He’s been called the “most frequently quoted case in modern psychiatry.” He wrote ‘Memoirs of a Mental Patient’ after spending 9 years in a mental hospital. Apparently, he thought he was a woman, and would marry God and produce a healthier race.
How do Rogerian therapists view diagnosis and the giving of advice?
Rogerians neither diagnose or give advice.
What term describes the counselor’s ability to truly understand what the client is feeling or experiencing?
Accurate empathy.
What is the term that describes any process in which the client attempts to describe his or her own internal thoughts, feelings and ideas?
Introspection.
What is the most controversial aspect of Freud’s theory?
The Oedipus Complex.