Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy Midterm

Bracketing

The ability of counselors to manage their personal values so that they do not contaminate the counseling process.

Countertransference

The process of therapists seeing in their clients patterns of their own behavior, over identifying with clients, or meeting their own needs through their clients.

Analytical Psychology

An elaborate explanation of human nature that combines ideas from history, mythology, anthropology, and religion

Brief Psychodynamic Therapy (BPT)

An adaptation of the principles of psychoanalytic theory and therapy aimed at treating selective disorders within a preestablished time limit.

Classical Psychoanallysis

The traditional (Freudian) approach to psychoanalysis based on a long-term exploration of past conflicts, many of which are unconscious, and an extensive process of working through early wounds.

Collective unconscious

From a Jungian perspective, the deepest level of the psyche that contains an accumulation of inherited experiences.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)

A blend of cognitive behavioral and psychoanalytic techniques that generally involves a minimum of one year of treatment.

Denial

An effort to suppress unpleasant reality. It consists of coping with anxiety by "closing our eyes" to the existence of anxiety-producing reality.

Displacement

An ego-defense mechanism that entails redirection of some emotion from a real source to a substitute person or object.

Introjection

A process of taking in the values and standards of others.

Dream Analysis

A technique for uncovering unconscious material and giving clients insight into some of their unresolved problems. Therapists participate with clients in exploring dreams and in interpreting possible meanings.

Free Association

A primary technique, consisting of spontaneous and uncensored verbalize toon by the client, klwhich gives clues to the nature of the client's unconscious conflicts

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy involving a shortening and simplifying the lengthy process of psychoanalysis

Psychodynammics

The interplay of opposing forces and intrapsychic conflicts that provide a basic for understanding human motivation.

Rationalization

An ego-defense mechanism whereby we attempt to justify our behavior by imputing logical motives to it.

Regression

An ego-defense mechanism whereby an individual reverts to a less mature form of behavior as a way of coping with extreme stress.

Repression

The ego-defense mechanism whereby threatening or painful thoughts or feelings are excluded from awareness.

Sublimation

An ego-defense mechanism that involves diverting sexual or aggressive energy into other channels that are socially acceptable.

Unconscious

That aspect of psychological functioning or of personality that houses experiences, wishes, impulses, and memories in an out-of-awareness state as a protection against anxiety.

Adlerian Therapy

Individual Psychology

Adlerian Therapy

Founder: Alfred Adler

Adlerian Brief Therapy

An intervention that is concise, deliberate, direct, efficient, focused, short-term, and purposeful.

According to Adler, childhood experiences

In themselves are not as crucial as our attitude toward these experiences

Basic Mistake

Faulty, self-defeating perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs that may have been appropriate at one time but are no longer useful. These are myths that are influential in shaping personality

Birth Order

Adler identified five psychological positions from w high children tend to view life: oldest, second of only two, middle, youngest, and only. Actual birth order itself is less important than a person's interpretation of his or her place in the family.

Community feeling

An individual's awareness of being part of the human community. Community feeling embodies the sense of being connected to all humanity and to being committed to making the world a better place.

The Adlerian point of view toward the role of insight in therapy is best stated in this way

To be of value, insight must be translated into a constructive action program.

Which of the following statements is NOT true as it is applied to Adlerian Therapy

The approach is grounded on the medical model.

The lifestyle assessment includes information based on

The family constellation, early recollections, dreams and mistaken, self-defeating perceptions

Adler linked the recognition of inferiority feelings with striving for perfection or mastery. This notion is best captured by which saying?

Inferiority and the quest for mastery are two sides of the same coin.

Which is the correct sequence of human experiencing from an Adlerian perspective?

First we think, then we feel, then we act.

Adlerian could best be described as using which techniques?

They fit a variety of techniques to the needs of each client.

How would the Adlerian therapist view the personal problems of clients?

As the end result of a process of discouragement.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four phases of the Adlerian therapeutic process?

Teaching the client the process of free association.

Which term does not fit Adlerian therapy?

Deterministic

Which of the following does Adler NOT stress?

Biological and instinctual drives

The phenomenological orientation pays attention to the

Way in which individuals perceive their world.

Anxiety

A condition that results from having to face choices without clear guidelines and without knowing what the outcome will be.

The concept of fictional finalist refers to a

An imagined central goal that guides a person's behavior

Adlerian consider which factor(s) to be influential in an individual's life?

Psychological position in the family, birth order, interactions among siblings, parent-child relationships

Adlerian value early recollections as an important clue to the understanding of

The individual's lifestyle.

Existential anxiety

An outcome of being confronted with the four givens of existence: death, freedom, existential isolation, and meaninglessness.

Self-Awareness

The capacity for consciousness that enables us to make choices.

Who is the person who developed logotherapy?

Victor Frank

Which is NOT a key concept of existential therapy?

It is based on a well-defined set of techniques and procedures.

According to the existential view, anxiety is a

Part of the human condition

One function of the existential therapist is to

Understand the client's subjective world

Resistance is seen as part of _______, of how a person understands his or her being and relationship to the world at large.

The self-and-world construct

Who was the main American spokesperson of European existential thinking as it is applied to psychotherapy?

Rollo May

What is the most crucial quality of a therapist in building an effective therapeutic relationship with a client

The therapist's authenticity.

Guilt and anxiety are viewed by existential therapist as

None of the above.

The existential approach is based on

The philosophical concern with what it means to be fully human.

Existential therapy is basically

An experiential and relational approach

Existential therapy places emphasis on

The quality of the client-therapist relationship

The central theme running through the works of Victor Frankl is

The will to meaning.

The existential therapist would probably agree that

Ultimately we are alone

The existential "givens of life" include all of the following except

Taxes

Which of the following is a limitation of the existential approach in working with culturally diverse client populations?

The focus on one's own responsibility rather than on changing social conditions.

In person-centered group counseling, the role of the counselor is best described as a

Facilitator

Person-centered therapy is a form of

Humanistic therapy

Congruence refers to the therapist's

Genuineness

In person-centered therapy, transference is

Not an essential or significant factor in the therapy process

Emotion-focused therapy

Is rooted in a person-centered philosophy., incorporates aspects of Gestalt therapy into the process., and incorporates aspects of existential therapy into the process.

Accurate empathic understanding refers to the therapist's ability to

Sense the inner world of the client's subjective experience.

Which technique(s) is (are) most often used in the person-centered approach?

Active listening and reflection

Which statement is most true of person-centered theory?

The techniques a therapist uses are less important than are his or her attitudes.

In what stage of change do individuals intend to take action immediately and report some small behavioral change

Preparation

One strength of the person-centered approach is that

Therapists have the latitude to develop their own counseling style

A limitation of the person-centered approach is a

Tendency for practitioners to give support without challlenging clients sufficiently

Rogers made a contribution to

Developing the humanistic movement in psychotherapy., pioneering research in the process and outcomes of therapy., Fostering world peace., and pioneering the encounter-group movement

As a result of experiencing person-centered therapy, it is hypothesized that the client will move toward

Self-trust., an internal source of evaluation., being more open to experience., a willingness to continue growing

Unconditional positive regard refers to

Accepting clients as worthy persons.

The main founder of Gestalt therapy is

Fritz Perls

Which is NOT true of Gestalt therapy?

The focus is on the "why" of behavior

Which of the following is NOT, a key concept of Gestalt therapy?

Intellectual understanding of one's problems.

According to the Gestalt view, awareness

Is by itself therapeutic.

The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is to help clients

Move from environmental support to self-support

Gestalt therapy can best be characterized as

An experimental therapy

Gestalt therapy encourages clients to

Experience feelings intensely., stay in the here and now., work through the impasse, and pay attention to the ir own nonverbal message.

The focus of Gestalt therapy is on

Recognizing one's own projections and refusing to accept helplessness.

A contribution of the Gestal t approach is that it

Deals with the past in a lively manner.

The process of distraction, which makes it difficult to maintain sustained contact is,

Deflection

The process of turning back to ourselves what we would like to do to someone else is

Retroflection

The tendency to uncritically accept others beliefs without assimilating or internalizing them is

Introjection

The process of blurring awareness of the boundary between self and environment is

Confluence

A-B-C

B=Behavior

Classical Conditioning

A form of learning in which a neutral stimulus is repeatedly paired with a stimulus that elicits a response

Cognitive behavior therapy CBT

Blends both cognitive and behavioral methods to bring about change

Behavior therapy is grounded on

The principles of learning

Mindfulness and acceptance based approaches

Have received empirical support as an effective form of therapy

In behavior therapy it is generally agreed that

The client should decide the treatment goals

According to most behavior therapists; a good working relationship between client and therapist is

A necessary, but not sufficient, condition for behavior change to occur

Applied behavior analysis makes use of

Operant conditioning techniques

Mindfulness practices rely on

Experiential learning and client discovery

Dialectical behavior therapy

Is a promising blend of behavior and psychoanalytic techniques

A limitation of traditional behavior therapy is its

De-emphasis on the role of feelings in therapy

Contemporary behavior therapy places emphasis on

The interplay between the individuals and the environment