Guess my role
The client's role
Therapeutic Alliance
It's just human nature, man
So here's the problem
100

My role is that of a blank slate.  I'm part observer, part interpreter.  I analyze  your dreams, experiences, transferences, and sometimes your ego. 

What is the role of a psychoanalytic analyst?

100

For this client, he or she must be willing to commit to the therapy process, which is typically to be intensive and long.  After some time, this client engages in what in free association. 

What is the role of a psychoanalytic client?

100

This alliance is characterized by dealing with projected emotions of the client gained through the talk therapy sessions.  Because of this transference, the relationship must be strong.  The more interpersonal the relationship the more transformative the change. 

What is the psychoanalytic therapeutic relationship?

100

My view of human nature is deterministic (i.e. there is no free will).  Human "drives", or unconscious motives, and conflicts play a significant role in present behavior.  Early development is critical (in fact, personality is fixed by age 6)  because later personality issues are rooted in repressed childhood conflicts. (Corey, 2016)

What is the Psychoanalytic view of human nature?

100

In psychoanalytic therapy, part of the issues a client faces involves when this personality segment, located in the unconscious and preoccupied with the pursuit of gratification, is out of balance.

What is the id?

200

My role is to create a environment where encouragement, mutual trust, respect, and confidence can thrive.  Collaboration is key.  I help my clients identify and explore their core fears, such as being imperfect or being disapproved of.  I also help you reach alignment on your goals.  You are responsible for your own behaviors.  

What is the role an Alderian therapist?

200

As a client of this therapy, I focus on my desired outcomes and a resilient lifestyle that provides a new roadmap for my actions so that can progress past my old dysfunctional patterns.  I explore my private logic, basically the concepts about myself, others, and the world. 

Who is an Adlerian client?

200

In this therapeutic relationship, the emphasis is on collaboration, whether that's in sharing responsibility, mutually determining goals, and creating mutual trust, respect, and equality.  We are discovering, exploring, and discussing the faulty assumptions and mistaken goals that have shaped your lifestyle.  

What is the role of the Adlerian therapeutic relationship?

200

Positive view of people; we have an inclination toward becoming fully functioning. In the context of the therapeutic relationship, the client experiences feelings that were previously denied to awareness. The client moves toward increased awareness, spontaneity, trust in self, and inner-directedness. (Corey, 2016)

What is the view of human nature in Person-centered therapy?

200

In this therapy, clients are struggling with their identity. They have lost touch with who they are and have let others design their life.  The are victims who foist responsibility for their problems on others.  They are characterized as being out of relationship with themselves and also avoid close relationships with others. 

What is Existential therapy?

300

The main tasks of my role are to accurately grasp clients’ being in the world and to establish a personal and authentic encounter with them.  I help my clients combat against restricted existence and face life with courage, hope, and willingness to find meaning.  

What is the role of an existential therapist?

300

My role is to take responsibility for how I am currently choosing to be in my world.  I have to take action and experiment with new ways of behaving in the outside world. I have the power and freedom to change my circumstances. 

What is the role of an existential client?


300

The therapeutic relationship is essential for implementing behavioral procedures.  In this relationship, clients are active in the process and experiment with effective behavior

What is behavior therapy therapeutic relationship?


300

The person strives for wholeness and integration of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Some key concepts include contact with self and others, contact boundaries, and awareness. The view is nondeterministic in that the person is viewed as having the capacity to recognize how earlier influences are related to present difficulties. As an experiential approach, it is grounded in the here and now and emphasizes awareness, personal choice, and responsibility. (Corey, 2016)

What is the view of human nature in Gestalt therapy?

300

This therapy examines the client's problem as a matter of exaggerated feelings of inferiority and exaggerated striving for superiority.  Inferiority becomes an inferiority complex when people lose courage to face demanding situations. Rather, they feel discouragement and hopelessness.  Clients tend to have safe-guarding tendencies to protect against loss of self esteem (i.e. include excuses, aggression, and withdrawal).

What is Adlerian therapy?

400

My role is of teacher and mentor.  I help my clients learn to engage in self-evaluation of their behavior, perception, commitments, wants, etc.  In my role, I typically ask my clients to evaluate if what they are choosing to do is getting them what they desire or need.  My clients do the evaluation, I merely assist. 

What is a choice theory/reality therapist' role?

400

In my role, I can't backtrack or sidetrack when discussing my symptoms. In fact, there's even a limit on time spent talking about feelings. Rather, the emphasis of my role is action.  I must think and act on the behaviors over which I have direct control. I do a lot of self-evaluation. 

What is the role of a choice theory/reality therapy client?

400

Creating a good relationship is fundamental to this therapy.  The therapist assists the client in evaluating all of their relationships from the perspective of what the client wants, what they are choosing to do, evaluate their choices (or behaviors), and helps them make plans to change

What is choice/reality theory therapeutic relationship?

400

In this view of human nature, individuals tend to incorporate faulty thinking, which leads to emotional and behavioral disturbances. Cognitions are the major determinants of how we feel and act. Therapy is primarily oriented toward cognition and behavior, and it stresses the role of thinking, deciding, questioning, doing, and redeciding. This is a psychoeducational model, which emphasizes therapy as a learning process, including acquiring and practicing new skills, learning new ways of thinking, and acquiring more effective ways of coping with problems. (Corey, 2016)

What is the view of human nature in Behavior therapy?

400

The organismic valuing process illustrates the problem client's face.  From infancy children begin to identify and differentiate a portion of their experience as self. Clients who have distorted portions of the self-structure leading to maladjustments, struggle to recognize that they have lost sense of self, instead putting on facades and masks which prevent self-actualizations contributes  to incongruence.  There is a misalignment between self-perception and experienced reality. There self-image is different from their ideal self. 

What is the problem for Person-centered therapy?

500

One of my primary roles is that of an assessor. In my role, I am also active and directive, and function as a consultant, problem solver, model, teacher, and reinforcer. I want to understand the (A) function of my clients behaviors, (B) how they originated, and (C) have been sustained. 

What is the role of an behavior therapist?

500

My role is to be an active participant in my care.  I am asked to do engage in behavioral rehearsal with feedback until new skills are learned and to participate in active homework assignments between my therapy sessions.  I need to experiment a lot in order to increase my rolodex of adaptive behaviors.

What is the role of client in behavior therapy?

500

For the REBT form of this therapy, the relationship is more directive and does not necessarily have to be warm; it should be respectful though.  On the other hand, for CT the relationship is collaborative. The focus of the relationship in this theory is on identifying dysfunctional beliefs and discovering alternative rules for living.

What is the cognitive behavior therapy therapeutic relationship?

500

Behavior is the product of learning. We are both the product and the producer of the environment. Traditional behavior therapy is based on classical and operant principles. Contemporary behavior therapy has branched out in many directions, including mindfulness and acceptance approaches. (Corey, 2016)

What is the view of human nature in Cognitive behavior therapy?

500

Maladaptive behaviors are learned by association/observation, reward, and punishment. They are not unconscious, based on self-esteem, or intrapsychic conflict.  They are dangerous to the self or others and must be unlearned.

What is the problem in Behavior therapy?

600

My role is to be present, genuine, empathetic, warm, and display congruency.  I have a positive acceptance of my clients that is unconditional and nonjudgmental.

What is the role of the person-centered therapist?

600

My role is to explore the full range of my experience, behavior, and worldview.   In therapy, I see more and more that I am responsible for myself, which my therapist often reminds me. This self-understanding has helped me see the incongruence between my self-perception and my experience in reality.  

What is the role of the person-centered client?

600

This therapeutic relationship is characterized by understanding the client's view of the world and establishing an authentic and personal encounter with them that focuses on the here-and-now. 

What is the existential therapeutic relationship?

600

This approach assumes that we need quality relationships to be happy. Psychological problems are the result of our resisting control by others or of our attempt to control others. It is an explanation of human nature and how to best achieve satisfying interpersonal relationships.

What is Choice theory/Reality Therapy?

600

Irrational beliefs are at the root of maladaptive behaviors associated with this therapy?

What is Cognitive behavior therapy?

700

The role of therapist in this theory is to invite clients to be active participants in learning about themselves by adopting an experimental attitudes.  I pay attention to body language and nonverbal cues.  I emphasize the relationship between personality and language patterns.  

What is the role of the gestalt therapists?

700

My role in therapy is to engage in dialogue with my therapists.  I actively participate in my therapy and make my own interpretations.  I'm often confronted when I don't accept responsibility for my thoughts.  

What is the role of the gestalt client?
700

In this theory, a genuine, warm, and empathetic relationship is vital and of primary importance. 

What is a person-centered therapeutic relationship?

700

Human beings are basically determined by psychic energy and by early experiences. Unconscious motives and conflicts are central in present behavior. Early development is of critical importance because later personality problems have their roots in repressed childhood conflicts. (Corey, 2016)

What is the view of human nature in Adlerian therapy?

700

In this therapy the problem is characterized by disconnectedness, clients are disconnected from others and themselves.  They believe that they do not have a choice in their actions and tend to blame others for their problems. 

What is Choice theory/Reality therapy?
800

Depending on the approach, I can be more directive, more of a teacher, assigning specific tasks for my clients in order to help change their cognitions. On the other hand, I can be more collaborative, assisting my clients to identify their faulty beliefs and discover alternative rules for living their lives. At other times, I an help my clients gain insights into their strengths. 

What is the role of a cognitive behavioral therapist?

800

My role can be either as a client is to focus on the here-and-now experiences and my present ability to change my ways of thinking, I may or may necessarily use free association, but I have homework.  With other practitioners however, I am asked to work collaboratively with them at they ask a lot of open ended questions...I think it's called Aristotlic interviewing or something.  Other times, we spend a lot of time figuring out my strengths.  

What is the role of a cognitive behavioral therapy client?

800

Establishing an I/Thou relationship is central to this client-therapist relationship. 

What is a gestalt therapeutic relationship

800

The central focus is on the nature of the human condition, which includes a capacity for self-awareness, freedom of choice to decide one's fate, responsibility, anxiety, the search for meaning, being alone and being in relation with others, striving for authenticity, and facing living and dying. (Corey, 2016)

What is the view of human nature in Existential therapy?

800

Feelings of unfinished business, memories and feelings of the past are left unexpressed or not fully experienced they linger in the background and interfere with the present, hampering a person from living in and recognizing their power in the "now." 

What is the problem in Gestalt therapy?

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