Feels Like The First Session
According to Bill O’Hanlon, this is the single greatest thing a therapist can offer a client in the first session.
(A: Hope)
Dr. Ron Siegel uses this sticky metaphor to explain the brain's negativity bias regarding good and bad experiences
Velcro for bad experiences and Teflon for good ones
While guilt says 'I did something bad,' this expert explains that shame hits the core of identity, stating, 'I am bad.'
Laurel Parnell
Dr. Scott Miller’s data points out that this percentage of therapy outcomes can be attributed to the therapeutic relationship itself.
50%
This current publication manual edition is required for grading all student literature reviews and in-text citation guidelines.
APA 7th edition
Lynn Lyons notes that this is the number one complaint families and clients have after leaving their first therapy appointment.
"Nobody told us what to do"
Joan Borysenko lists these four core structural building blocks of trust in human relationships.
Benevolence, Integrity, Competence, and Predictability
Peter Levine compares toxic, un-repaired shame to this biological illness because of the way it metastasizes into relational well-being.
Cancer
Linda Graham points out that the brain cannot separate real life from internal imagery because this capacity is entirely real to neural pathways.
The imagination
What information appears on the second line of a student title page in APA 7th edition?
What is the author's name?
This expert argues that 'assessment is intervention' and asks clients to complete a hypothetical sentence about therapy's success 6 to 12 months in the future.
Lynn Lyons
This specific hormone acts as a biological bonding agent, naturally boosting feelings of safety and predictability.
Oxytocin
According to Linehan and van der Kolk, individuals who are entirely 'shameless' are clinically dangerous because they lack this vital trait.
Empathy
This therapeutic framework relies on the cognitive processing of a 'wished-for ending' to safely change painful trauma memories.
Imagery Rescripting or memory reconsolidation therapy
Where are page numbers located in the header of an APA 7th edition paper?
What is the top right corner?
Rick Hanson states that a first session should focus heavily on assessing this match between client problems and clinical skillsets.
Clinical fit
According to Stephen Porges, a profound violation of trust—especially within a family system—fundamentally retunes this system.
The nervous system or autonomic nervous system
Ron Siegel and Kelly McGonigal point out that hidden shame often suddenly transforms into this defensive, outward emotion to regain autonomy.
Anger
Marsha Linehan uses this phrase to separate behavioral critique from personal condemnation: 'Your behavior might be a problem, but...'
"...you are not a problem"
When citing a source with three or more authors in-text, how many authors' names are listed starting with the first citation?
What is the first author's name followed by "et al."?
Marsha Linehan states that a main goal when working with hostile intake clients is to explicitly teach them this relational outcome.
How to interact with a person so that the other person actually wants to talk to them
Dr. Shelly Harrell emphasizes that when a client exhibits deep-seated trust issues, they are utilizing mistrust to serve this exact purpose.
A protective function or protecting oneself from pain/rejection
Neurobiological research notes that memories tied to fear and shame are the 'stickiest' because they originally served this purpose.
Social order/clan survival
When a client feels completely stuck, Bill O’Hanlon recommends ignoring the presenting issue to explicitly map out these two tracking markers.
What the client is suffering from and what they are longing for
How do you cite a personal interview, email, or phone call in your reference list?
What is "you do not include it in the reference list (only in-text as personal communication)"?