Philosophical Phrases
"Give me a child and I will shape him into anything."
What is Behaviorism (BF Skinner)?
A basic counseling skill and the "O" in OARS.
What are Open Ended Questions (MI)?
"This approach shows promise because it focuses on students' strengths and assets rather than their weaknesses and only a few meetings are needed to help students get on the right track" (Birdsall & Miller, 2002).
What is Solutions Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)?
This form of counseling might not offer enough time for the counselor to develop a deep therapeutic relationship with their client.
What is Solutions Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)?
This ophthalmologist was drafted during WWI and stationed to work in a children's hospital, where he bore witness to the ways in which war is a destructive force on humanity.
Who is Alfred Adler (Adlerian/Psychodynamic)?
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
What is Humanism (Carl Rogers)?
This type of question invites clients to perceive their problem on a continuum, rather than in 'black-and-white.'
What are Scaling Questions (SFBT)?
"Rather than instilling new beliefs, the therapist strengthens existing aspects of the client’s own personal constructs and motivations" (Miller & Rollnick, 2004).
What is Motivational Interviewing?
This form of counseling depends on the efficacy of the counselor, and this efficacy depends on the training that they receive, which can sometimes take a long time to master.
What is Motivational Interviewing (MI)?
This man is the reason you had to do Counseling Role Play and Analysis 1 and 2.
Who is Carl Rogers?
“To be human means to feel inferior.”
What is Psychodynamic (Alfred Adler)?
This counseling skill helps a person separate themselves from their problem(s), making it easier to make changes in their story.
What is Externalization (Narrative)?
"As people begin to inhabit and live out the alternative stories, the results are beyond solving problems. Within the new stories, people live out new self images, new possibilities for relationships and new futures (1996, p.16)" (Morgan, 2000).
What is Narrative Therapy?
This therapeutic approach focuses a great deal on a client's past experiences, therefore, they must be willing to talk about some of their earliest memories in life.
What is Adlerian (Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic? Therapy?
This individual was diagnosed with Schizophrenia, and later diagnosed themselves with Borderline Personality Disorder, and eventually went on to develop a form of treatment for this diagnosis.
Who is Marsha Linehan (DBT)?
“Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.”
What is Postmodernism (Michel Foucault)?
Demonstrating acceptance regardless of the feelings expressed by the client or agreement with the client.
What is unconditional positive regard (Rogerian/Humanistic)?
"In this relationship, the counsellor’s role is to ensure and maintain congruency not only between their own internal emotional states and their attitudinal, behavioural, and physiological responses to the client but also between their states and their client’s internal and external states" (Boyer, 2015).
What is Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian)?
This form of therapy is highly structured, often involves weekly individual and group therapy sessions, and involves homework, which requires a significant time commitment and can feel overwhelming to some.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
This couple, frustrated with the nature and duration of counseling and intrigued by postmodern theories, came up with this brief intervention that focuses on solutions.
Who are Steve de Shazer and Kim Insoo Berg (SFBT)?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
“The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.”
What is Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud)?
These skills involve helping people understand what their needs are in their relationships and helps develop effective ways of dealing with others in order to get one’s wants or needs met in a healthy way.
What are Interpersonal Effectiveness skills (DBT)?
"Lifestyle convictions are usually out of clients’ awareness and they are a lens through which people interpret life experiences...many lifestyle convictions are beliefs that are inaccurate, faulty, or self-defeating and are referred to...as mistaken beliefs" (Agarwal & Meany-Walen, 2019).
What is Adlerian (Psychodynamic) Therapy?
To benefit from this form of therapy, you have to be open to discussing your experiences, you must lead the conversation, which might not be applicable in every culture context.
What is Person-Centered Counseling (Rogerian)?
These two colleagues were social workers in New Zealand, who came together to develop a therapeutic approach, rooted in postmodernism and social constructionism, in response to the oppressive nature of the existing mental health system.
Who are Michael White and David Epston (Narrative)?