Theoretical Orientation
MISC - DSM- Theory
Counseling Skills
MISC- CBT
Theoretical Orientation #2
100
According to Carl Rogers, a client-centered therapist needs these three key qualities.
What is Genuineness?, Unconditional Positive Regard?, and Empathetic Understanding?
100

Theoretical orientation influences these, the specific techniques and strategies a counselor uses in therapy.

What are intervention strategies or tools or techniques?

100
some of the goals of this skill is to communicate to clients that you are paying attention, facilitate/encourage exploration, and understand client’s verbal and non-verbal messages
What is attending and listening?
100

This CBT technique involves gradually exposing clients to feared situations to reduce avoidance.

What is exposure therapy?

100

This therapy emphasizes the impact of unconscious processes on behavior.

What is psychodynamic therapy?

200
In CBT, an enduring understanding that is so fundamental and deep, a person regards them as a absolute truth.
What are Core beliefs?
200

These are unconscious strategies to avoid distressing thoughts and feelings.

What are defense mechanisms? 

200
"What is your reaction when you hear ________?" is an example of this type of question...
What is an open-ended question?
200

this is done at the beginning of therapy sessions or groups to see how people are doing and how present they are in the [learning] process...

What are check-ins?

200

This term describes the redirection of feelings for a significant person to the therapist.

What is transference 

300
integrates facts and information about the client, as well as mental health theory, to help guide treatment and foster a complex understanding of a client.
What is Case conceptualization?
300

This therapy is often used when a therapist tailors their approach to suit the unique needs of each client.

What is integrative or eclectic therapy?

300
Seeing something from the client's perspective by "putting yourself in their shoes"
What is empathy?
300

In CBT, these are distorted or irrational ways of thinking that contribute to emotional distress.

What are cognitive distortions?

300
this determines the degree of mental impairment associated with the clinical condition under investigation, assists with diagnostic assessment, and helps understand ways to engage with the client...
What is the Mental Status Exam?
400

This therapy encourages clients to focus on the present moment and take responsibility for their choices.

What is Gestalt Therapy?

400

In the DSM-IV and DSM-V, these are conditions and problems that may be a focus of clinical attention or that may otherwise affect the diagnosis, course, prognosis, or treatment of a patient’s mental disorder; "The conditions and problems listed in this chapter are not mental disorders. Their inclusion [in the DSM] is meant to draw attention to the scope of additional issues that may be encountered in routine clinical practice and to provide a systematic listing that may be useful to clinicians in documenting these issues."

What are Z Codes?

400
the repeating or rephrasing the client’s statements, including explicit identification of feelings, in order to help understand the client’s internal experience, build empathy, and validate.
What is reflection of feelings?
400

CBT is especially effective for these two common mental health conditions.

What are depression and anxiety?

400

Humanistic therapists believe clients have this, the ability to make healthy decisions.

What is autonomy or self-determination?

500
Murdock (1991) said when considering applying theory to case conceptualization, the first question a therapist should consider is:
What is the core motivation of human existence (according to the theory)?
500

the "DSM" in DSM V TR stands for this...

What is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 (Text Revision)

500

can be used to make client aware of a contradiction or clarify a discrepancy in session

What is Challenging?

500

This CBT technique involves challenging and changing unhelpful thoughts.

What is cognitive restructuring?

500

This therapy, a humanistic approach, encourages clients to take ownership of their choices and live authentically.

What is existential therapy?

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