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Confrontation - ✔✔-Transactional Analysis technique for pointing out inconsistencies in behavior and
speech.
Dream Analysis - ✔✔-Psychoanalysis t
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NCMHCE-Interventions, Questions and
answers, 100% Accurate, rated A+
Confrontation - ✔✔-Transactional Analysis technique for pointing out inconsistencies in behavior and
speech.
Dream Analysis - ✔✔-Psychoanalysis technique used to analyze unconscious
Sand Tray Therapy - ✔✔-For kids, play.
Guided imagery - ✔✔-Behavioral Therapy. Assists clients in working through situations by visualization.
Shame Attacking - ✔✔-REBT strategy of encouraging people to do things despite a fear of feeling foolish
or embarrassed. Aim is to teach people that they can function effectively even if they might be
perceived as doing foolish acts.
Joining - ✔✔-Building Rapport in Family therapy.
Polarities - ✔✔-Jungian. Introvert and extrovert.
Social Interest - ✔✔-Adler. Individual's awreness of being part of the human community.
Prejudice - ✔✔-Specific pattern of thought towards or behavior toard individual or groups different
from one's own. Allport.
Positive Connotation - ✔✔-MRI. Attributes positive motives to family behavior in order to support
cohesion within the family and circumvent resistence in therapy.
Paradoxical Injunction - ✔✔-MRI. Instruct family member to continue thier symptomatic behavior.
Circular questioning - ✔✔-Systems Theories (MRI, narrative, etc.). incorporates history, individual and
immediate events.
Family Ritual - ✔✔-MRI. prescribes specific act for family members to perform that is designed to
change the family system's rules.
Paradoxical Intervention - ✔✔-Interrupt problem-maintaining sequences by doing something.
Cybernetic - ✔✔-Strategic Family Therapy Difficulties are turned into problems by using misguided
solutions and forming positive feedback escalations
Incongruous Hierachies - ✔✔-Strategic Family Therapy A structure that doesn't work (parents ruled by a
child)
Negative Feedback - ✔✔-Systems Theory. Behavioral Reactions that stabilize a process system returning
it to its equilibruim state
Positive Feedback - ✔✔-Systems Theory. Pro-active behavior that rocks the equilibrium of the system
and causes issue with it.
No Fault Technique - ✔✔-Technique of systems THeory. WIthin the family no individual is blamed for
problems.
Family Myths - ✔✔-Experiential Family Therapy. Set of beliefs based upon a distoration of historical
reality and shared by all family members that help shape the rules governing family dysfuntion.
Mystification - ✔✔-Many families distort their children's experience by denying or re-labeling it
Anxious Attachment - ✔✔-Bowen Family Systems Theory. Heart of problem.
Triangulation - ✔✔-2 person conflict in which a 3rd person is brought in. -
Differentiation - ✔✔-Bowen Family Systems THeory. Process of freeing oneself from one's family. +
Fusion - ✔✔-Bowen Family Systems Theory. Families that are emotionally stuck together. -
Family Projection Process - ✔✔-Bowen Family Systems THeory.Emotional projections that are passed on
from one generation to another.
Emotional Cutoff. - ✔✔-THe way people manage anxiety between generations.Family Systems Therapy.
Genograms - ✔✔-Adlarian Therapy
Constellation - ✔✔-Adlarian Family Therapy
Parent Ego State - ✔✔-TA state in which Paradigms of caring and rules are based on childhood
experiences
Adult Ego State - ✔✔-TA. Here-and-now. A logical awareness of the outside world. Unemotional, logical.
Child Ego State - ✔✔-TA. Behaviors, thoughts and feelings replayed from childhood. Emotional state.
Transactions - ✔✔-Units of communication.
Positive preferential Evaluation - ✔✔-REBT. State that is relative, non-absolut, and in the positive
Positive musturbatory evaluation - ✔✔-REBT. State that is dogmatic, absolute
Emotional Imagery - ✔✔-Cogntive Behavioral Intervention allows the client to process his anger and
frustration through imagery that you facilitate in session. Mood Disorders
Dream Analysis - ✔✔-Useful for evoking subconscious repressed memories or conflict.
Mood Graph - ✔✔-Help identify patterns or cycles of mood. Bipolar.
Thought Stopping - ✔✔-Cognitive Therapy intervention that assists clients with controlling their
thoughts and emotions before they escalate. --> Used often with Bipolar
Assessment of Alternatives - ✔✔-Allows clinet to brainstorm options that thye can use reather than
previous behaviors that were unproductive and choose the one that works best.
Triangulation - ✔✔-According to Minuchin, a form of rigid triad involving usually two parents and a
child. The two parents avoid conflict by involving the child, thereby stabilizing their own relationship.
Structural Family Therapy - ✔✔-Family therapy approach that emphasizes altering the family's structure
(rigid triangles, power hierarchies) in order to change the behavior patterns of family members. Involves
joining the family system, evaluating the family structure, and then restructuring the family using several
techniques such as enactmanet and reframing. Techniques are designed to deliberately unbalance
(stress) the family's homeostasis in order to facilitate transformation of the family structure. Focus is on
behavior change rather than on insight.
Genuineness - ✔✔-Humanistic approach Conveyed by 1. being open, nondefensive, and spontaneous 2.
matching your words and your actions and 3. making statements that re consistent with your thoughts
and feelings.
Ego Analysis - ✔✔-Assumes that personality develops throughout the lifespan and emphasizes the
effects of the ego on personality development. Describes two types of ego function: ego defensive
functions are used to resolve conflicts; ego autonomous functions encompass the conflict-free ego
sphere and consist of adaptive conflict-free functions (speech, memory, perception, etc)
Stages of group development - ✔✔-1. preaffiliation
2. Power and control
3. intimacy
4. Differentiation
5. Seperation
Informed Consent - ✔✔-Giving permission by a client to a counselor to use a specific intervention,
including diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and research. Practice is deigned to protect individuals by
guarenteeing their safety, privacy, freedom.
Extended Family Systems Therapy - ✔✔-School of family therapy that extends general systems theory
beyond the nuclear family. Emphasis is on intellectual and emotional differentiation of individual family
members; and key terms include differentiation of self, undifferentiated family ego mass, emotional
triangles, and multigenerational transmission process.
Negligence - ✔✔-Failure to meet one's responsibilty to protect or help another person or failure to
practice reasonable care or caution to the extent that another person is harmed or placed at
unnecessary risk of harm
Lithium - ✔✔-Drug used to treat mood swings in bipolar
Flooding - ✔✔-Classical extinction technique that involves exposing the individual in vivo or in
imagination to high anxiety-arousing stimuli. Key is exposing the client for long enough that he comes to
see that none of the consequences he fears actually take place. In vivo it is also known as in vivo
exposure with response prevention.
Counterconditioning - ✔✔-Behavioral treatment intervention in which the therapist pairs a maladaptive
behavior with an incompatible behavior in order to eliminate the former. Eg. systematic desensitization,
assertivenss training, aversive therapy.
Identified patient - ✔✔-Family member who is identified by the family as bearing the symptom
Gestalt Therapy - ✔✔-A humanistic therapy based on the concept that the whole is greater than the
sum of its parts. Adopts a here and now approach, views awareness as the primary goal of treatment,
and defines neurosis as a growth disorder reflecting certain boundary disturbances and involving an
abandonment of the self for the self image.
Motivational Interviewing - ✔✔-Approach developed for clients who are ambivalent about changing
their behaviors that combines the transteoretical (stages of change) model with client-centered therapy
and self-efficacy. Goal is to increase a client's intrinic motivation to change
Operant Conditioning - ✔✔-Behavioral treatment intervention that involves increasing a desirable
behavior through positive reinforcement and/or decreasing an undesirable behavior with punishment or
extinction
DBT - ✔✔-Approach designed for patients with borderline pd that combines individual and group
therapies, incorporates elements of behavioral, cogntitive and supportive techniques, and relies on the
use of a consultation group in which the therapist reeives support from peers and assistance in
maintaining a balance between acceptance of the client and a push for change
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors - ✔✔-Antidepressent drugs taht include Prozac and Zoloft
Cultural Paranoia - ✔✔-Term used to describe appropriate mistrust and suspeciousness of minorty
groups towards the majority resulting from racism and oppression. in therapy may be a cause of
nondisclosure.
Battered Woman Syndrom - ✔✔-Constellation of abuse-related anxiety, arousal and avoidance
symptoms, including isolation and withdrawal, similar to those cause by other traumatic events.
Freudian Psychoanalysis - ✔✔-Approach (therapy) based on the concept that the ego resorts to defense
mechanisms when it is unable to ward off danger (anxiety) through rational realistc means.
Premack Principle - ✔✔-Using a high probabilty behavior to reinforce a low probability behavior in order
to increase the freq of the low probability behavior.
Reality Therapy - ✔✔-Primary goal for this therapy is to help clients identify responsible and effective
ways to satisfy their needs and thereby to develop a success identity. 1. Rejects medical model, 2./
Focuses on current behaviors and beliefs, 3/ views transference as detrimental to progress, 4. Stresses
conscious processes 5. Emphasizes value judgement, especially the client's ability to judge waht is right
and wrong in daily life, 6. teaches clients specific behaviors that will enable to to fulfill their needs.
Strategic Family Therapy - ✔✔-Family Therapy Approach that focuses on transactional patterns and
views symptoms as interpersonal events that serve to control r
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