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Law and/or Ethics
Theries and Modalities
Personality
Ages and Stages
100

This disorder requires the presence of delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or negative symptoms for at least 6 months.

Schizophrenia?

100

This term refers to a therapist's legal responsibility to protect a client’s personal health information, and is the core idea behind HIPAA

confidentiality?

100

This approach, developed by Carl Rogers, emphasizes unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence.

Person-Centered Therapy?

100

This personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive distrust and suspicion of others.

Paranoid Personality Disorder?

100

According to Erik Erikson's 1st, this stage is associated with infancy (birth to 18 months).

Trust vs. Mistrust?

200

This diagnosis requires exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence, with symptoms including intrusive thoughts, avoidance, negative mood changes, and hyperarousal lasting more than one month.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?

200

In California, this law requires therapists to break confidentiality if a client makes a credible threat of violence toward an identifiable victim.

Tarasoff ruling (Duty to Warn)?

200

This therapy focuses on utilize substitutes such as toys to allow for children to display complex emotional concerns unable to be expressed in words. 

Play Therapy?

200

This disorder involves attention-seeking behavior, excessive emotionality, and discomfort when not the center of attention.

Histrionic Personality Disorder?

200

According to Kohlberg’s stages of moral development, this is the highest level of moral reasoning, the Postconventional stage, is reach one understands one of these two principles  

abstract rules/principles and the recognition of universal ethical values.

300

This mood disorder is characterized by at least 2 weeks of depressed mood or loss of interest, along with other symptoms like changes in sleep, appetite, or energy.

Major Depressive Disorder?

300

A therapist must retain adult client records for this many years following the last date of service.

7 years?

300

This therapy, based on classical and operant conditioning, may include techniques like systematic desensitization and exposure.

Behavioral Therapy?  

300

Individuals with this disorder often appear eccentric, have odd beliefs, and display magical thinking.

Schizotypal Personality Disorder?

300

Jean Piaget's stage where children begin using symbolic thought but lack logical reasoning.

Preoperational stage?

400

A key feature of this disorder is chronic, excessive worry occurring more days than not for at least 6 months.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder?  

400

This term describes a dual relationship that may impair a clinician’s objectivity, competence, or effectiveness.

conflict of interest?

400

This short-term, solution-oriented therapy focuses on identifying "exceptions" and constructing solutions.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?

400

This disorder is defined by feeling reserved or inadequate, with an extreme fear of criticism or rejection especially in social settings.

Avoidant Personality Disorder?

400

In adolescence, Erikson believed the key developmental task is resolving this psychosocial conflict. (His 5th)

Identity vs. Role Confusion?

500

This childhood-onset disorder is characterized by multiple motor and one or more vocal tics lasting over a year.

Tourette’s Disorder?

500

A minor in California may consent to mental health treatment starting at this age, provided the therapist deems the minor mature enough.

age 12?

500

In this family systems theory, clients work to differentiate themselves from emotional fusion within their family of origin.

Bowenian Therapy (or Bowen Family Systems Theory)?

500

This personality disorder is marked by detachment from social relationships and a limited range of emotional expression in interpersonal settings.  

Schizoid Personality Disorder?

500

According to Bowlby, this form of attachment is formed when a caregiver is inconsistent or intrusive.

anxious-ambivalent attachment?

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