Unit VIII: Nutrition Education and Counseling: Behavioral Change Flashcards
It provide a framework for therapists and counselors to interpret a client’s behavior, thoughts, and feelings and help them navigate a client’s journey from diagnosis to post-treatment.
Psychotherapy theories
These are an understandably integral part of the therapeutic process.
Theoretical approaches
Also known as the “historical perspective,” has its roots with Sigmund Freud, who believed there were unconscious forces that drive behavior.
Psychoanalysis/Psychodynamic Theory
Techniques in psychoanalysis
free association
dream analysis
transference
freely talking to the therapist about whatever comes up without censoring
free association
examining dreams for important information about the unconscious
dream analysis
redirecting feelings about certain people in one’s life onto the therapist
transference
This theory is highly researched, and as the field of neuroscience advances, counselors are finding how psychodynamic theory can positively affect a client’s brain.
Psychoanalysis/Psychodynamic Theory
It can be more time-intensive in comparison to some short-term theories because it involves changing deeply ingrained behaviors and requires significant work on understanding one’s self.
Psychodynamic theory
Theory that is based on the belief that behavior is learned.
Behavioral theory
It is one type of behavioral therapy that stems from early theorist Ivan Pavlov’s research.
Classic conditioning
B. F. Skinner developed another behavioral therapy approach, called ___.
operant conditioning
He believed in the power of rewards to increase the likelihood of a behavior and punishments to decrease the occurrence of a behavior.
B. F. Skinner
This counseling theory focuses on how people’s thinking can change feelings and behaviors.
Cognitive Theory
Who develop cognitive theory
Aaron Beck, 1960
It is brief and oriented toward problem-solving.
Cognitive Theory
therapists work on changing unwanted and destructive behaviors through behavior modification techniques such as positive or negative reinforcement.
Behavioral therapist
therapists focus more on their client’s present situation and distorted thinking than on their past.
Cognitive therapists
therapists care most about the present and helping their clients achieve their highest potential.
Humanistic therapists
Instead of energy spent on the past or negative behaviors, they believe in the goodness of all people and emphasize a person’s self-growth and self-actualization.
humanists
Theory that include client-centered, gestalt, and existential therapies.
Humanistic Approach/Humanistic theories
It focuses on the belief that clients control their destinies.
client-centered therapy
He believed that all therapists need to do is show their genuine care and interest.
Carl Rogers (client-centered therapy)
therapists’ work focuses more on what’s going on in the moment versus what is being said in therapy.
Gestalt therapists
