Approach
Key Concepts
Therap. Goals
Categories
Techniques
100

Emphasizes the client-counselor relationship.

What is Person-Centered?

100

Consciousness and unconsciousness, ego defense mechanisms, psychosexual and psychosocial stages of development.

What is the psychoanalytic approach? (psychodynamic)

100

Provide a climate of safety and trust.

What is the Person-Centered Approach?

100

Family Systems 

What is Family Systems therapy?
100

Examine multiple perspectives and interaction patterns

What is Family Systems Therapy?

200

Assumes people are shaped by learning.

What is behavior therapy? (cognitive behavioral approach)

200

People are primarily social beings, influenced and motived by social forces.

What is the Adlerian approach? (Psychodynamic)

200

Focus to eliminate self-defeating outlook, reduce unhealthy emotional responses, acquire a more rational philosophy.

What is Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy?

200

Psychodynamic 

What is the Psychoanalytic and Adlerian approach?

200

Exception questions

What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?

300

Posits that cognitions are the major determinants of how we feel and act.

What is cognitive therapy?

300

Assumes humans are internally motivated and behave to control the world around them, according to some purpose within them.

What is Choice Theory/Reality Therapy?

300

Promote an invitational style, and enhance a person's intrinsic motivation.

What is motivational interviewing?

300

Experiential and Relationship-Oriented

What is Person-Centered, Existential, and Gestalt?

300

Wants, Direction/Doing, Evaluate, Planning

What is Choice Theory/Reality Therapy?


400

Emphasizes a client's strengths, resources, prior successes, and competencies.

What is solution-focused brief therapy? (post-modern approach)

400

Expanded view of psychological health, designing a life worth living. 

What is Mindfulness and Acceptance Therapies?

400

Focus on equality, empowerment, social change, and transformation.

What is Feminist Therapy?

400

Cognitive Behavioral

What is Behavior Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, and Reality Therapy?

400

Active listening, empathy

What is the Person-Centered approach?

500

Assumes past situations contribute to a client's present problems.

What is the psychoanalytic approach? (psychodynamic approach)

500

Invite clients to view their stories from different perspectives.

What is Narrative Therapy?

500

Clients establish goals and preferences building on their resources.

What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?

500

Post-modern 

What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, and Feminist Therapy?

500

Interpretation

What is the Psychoanalytic approach?

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