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Excessive worry lasting six months or more is characteristic of this disorder.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
When a therapist has multiple roles with a client, it is called this type of relationship.
What is a dual relationship?
This approach, developed by Carl Rogers, emphasizes unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence.
Person-Centered Therapy?
A therapist must report suspected child abuse under this legal requirement.
What is mandated reporting?
Maslow’s highest level in the hierarchy of needs
What is self-actualization?
A client experiencing hallucinations and disorganized speech for 3 months may meet criteria for this diagnosis.
What is Schizophreniform Disorder?
This is the legal obligation to break confidentiality when a client poses a danger to others.
What is the duty to warn (Tarasoff ruling)?
This therapy uses techniques like “empty chair” and focuses on the here-and-now experience.
What is Gestalt Therapy?
If a client threatens serious harm to themselves, the therapist’s first duty is to do this.
What is ensure the client’s safety / assess for hospitalization?
According to Erikson's 5th stage the main task of adolescence is resolving this psychosocial crisis.
What is identity vs. role confusion?
Recurrent panic attacks followed by concern about having another one defines this condition.
What is Panic Disorder?
Before recording or using client sessions for training, therapists must obtain this.
What is informed consent?
This family therapy model emphasizes boundaries and subsystems within the family.
What is Structural Family Therapy
(Minuchin)?
A clinician who fails to meet the standard of care and causes harm may be guilty of this.
What is malpractice?
Jean Piaget's stage where children begin using symbolic thought but lack logical reasoning.
Preoperational stage?
Persistent depressive disorder requires depressive symptoms for this minimum duration.
What is 2 years?
This federal law protects the privacy of clients’ health information.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
This brief therapy model uses “miracle questions” and focuses on client strengths and exceptions.
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)?
This law allows minors to consent to their own mental health treatment in certain states.
What is a minor consent law?
According to Erikson, adults in midlife face this psychosocial conflict, which focuses on contributing to society and guiding the next generation.
What is generativity vs. stagnation?
A child displaying aggression toward people and animals and serious rule violations may have this disorder.
What is Conduct Disorder?
When a supervisee believes a supervisor’s directive would harm a client, the supervisee’s first ethical responsibility is to do this.
What is ~protect the client’s welfare and seek consultation or report the concern?~
This approach integrates systems thinking with attachment theory and is often used in couples therapy.
What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)?
When a client discloses past criminal behavior that poses no current threat, the therapist must respond this way.
What is maintain confidentiality?
This concept from Prochaska & DiClemente describes when a client prepares to take action toward change.(stages of change)
What is the preparation (or determination) stage?