Diagnoses
Law & Ethics
Theories
Mandates
Key Figures
100

During menstruation the client has symptoms of significant affective lability, irritability/anger, depression, or anxiety plus other physical symptoms (i.e. cramps, breast tenderness, etc.).

What is Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder?

100

The client has the right to claim or waive this information between a therapist and client in a court of law

What is privilege?

100

This intervention personifies a problem

What is externalization? (Narrative Therapy)

100

You must report suspected child abuse within this timeframe after learning of the possible abuse.

What is 36 hours?

100

Originators of Narrative Therapy

Who are Michael White and David Epston?

200

Restrictive eating leading to significantly low body weight. Intense fear of weight gain, disturbance in the way body weight or shape is experienced. Persistent lack of recognition of the seriousness of current low body weight.

What is anorexia nervosa?

200

This is the frequency that an Associate needs to take a 3 hour Law & Ethics course.

What is annually?

200

This intervention asks clients to imagine a future time when the problem doesn't exist.

What is the Miracle Question? (Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, SFBT)

200

You must report suspected abuse of dependent adults to which agency?

What is Adult Protective Services?

200

Developed Solution-Focused Therapy

Who are Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg?

300

Marked fear of 2 or more of these: using public transportation, being in open spaces, being in enclosed spaces, standing in line in a crowd, being outside of home alone.

What is agoraphobia?

300

This is the minimum age that a minor can consent to their own therapy without their parents' knowledge.

What is 12 years old?

300

This describes the interaction between a couple where one person is leaning in and one person is leaning out.

What is pursuer - distancer? (Emotinally-Focused Therapy, EFT)

300

This is an unequivocally illegal and unethical dual relationship between therapist and client.

What is a sexual relationship?

300
Popularized Structural Therapy

Who is Salvador Minuchin?

400

Disruption of identity with marked discontinuity in sense of self and sense of agency, accompanied by alterations in affect, behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, and/or sensory/motor functioning.

What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?

400

This is the maximum number of years that an associate collect hours in a private practice before having to continue their associateship at an exempt site.

What is 6 years?

400

This intervention asks clients to do something that seems counter productive or not intuitive.

What is a paradoxical directive? (Strategic Therapy)

400

What is the minimum length of time a therapist must wait before establishing a platonic friendship with a former client?

What is 2 years?

400

Created a theory to look at intergenerational patterns, differentiation, boundaries and hierarchies in the family system.

Who is Murray Bowen?

500

Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violation in one or more of the following ways: direct experience of trauma, witnessing the events happening to another person, learning that the events have to a close family member/friend, repeated exposure to aversive details of traumatic events. 

Duration: 3 days to 1 month of the traumatic event.

What is Acute Stress Disorder?

500

This is the California Welfare and Institutions Code for a 72- hour involuntary psychiatric hospitalization

What is 5150?

500

This intervention requires that a client analyze and challenge their irrational thoughts.

What is CBT?

500

This is the length of time that a therapist has to retain clinical documentation on a client after terminating services.

What is 7 years?

500

Arguably the most famous psychoanalyst.

Who is Dr. Sigmund Freud?

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