A stroke of insight
These are what an individual uses to cope with anxiety and prevent feeling overwhelmed according to psychodynamic clinicians.
What are ego defense mechanisms?
This is the fundamental goal of existential therapy.
What is to increase self-awareness?
In cognitive approaches, the name for the immediate cognitive response often considered irrational or rigid in the case of a mental health concern
What are automatic thoughts?
This is the theory underlying Reality therapy
What is Choice theory?
A name to describe the cluster of healing approaches not originated in a western context
What is Complimentary and Alternative Medicine?
The unconscious shifting of the client's experience of others onto the therapist
What is transference?
A Rogerian term to denote deep and genuine caring for the client as a person, independent of judgment
What is unconditional positive regard?
A type of CBT intervention that involves introducing clients, carefully and safely, to situations that contribute to anxiety or other problems.
What is exposure?
The epistemological underpinning of postmodern therapies which explains their views on reality.
What is constructionism or constructivism?
The act of understanding a client's presenting concerns through a specific theoretical lens which also indicates certain actions to help the client reach their goals.
What is case conceptualization?
For Adlerians, this is the act of exploring early recollections to learn the essential goals and motivations of a client.
What is a lifestyle assessment?
The person centered assumption that people will naturally direct themselves towards growth and fulfillment
What is the actualizing tendency?
A part of learning theory that notes not all experiences need to happen directly for learning to occur.
What is social learning (or vicarious learning)?
In gestalt therapy, the name for unexpressed and incomplete parts of a person's experience
What is unfinished business?
The combination of clinician experience, client preference, and scientific research.
What is evidence based practice?
The final phase of Adlerian treatment focuses on this
What are reorientation and re-education?
This describes quality of the relationship in an existential therapy dyad.
The newest wave (3rd generation) of CBT techniques tends to incorporate this into treatment
What is mindfulness?
In feminist therapy, the desire to challenge power structures, especially in the therapy room, has a goal of doing this for the therapeutic dyad.
What is creating an egalitarian relationship?
This phrase describes a way of thinking about the effects of culture in therapy without assuming that the counselor's way is right or best.
What is cultural humility?
The part of personality classic psychoanalysis would focus, unlike their more modern counterparts.
What is the id?
This occurs when the focus of session addresses what is currently going on between the client and clinician.
What is immediacy?
While not unique to CBT, the belief that changing one part of a person's experience, like a thought, will then affect other parts of the person's experience.
What is reciprocal determinism?
In Bowenian or multigenerational family therapy, this occurs when a three person relationship acts out a dynamic in a predictable pattern.
What is triangulation?
To borrow the techniques from a different theoretical approach to use them within the theoretical lens you are already employing
What is assimilative integration?