The clinical phenomenon in which a client transfers onto the therapist feelings and fantasies from significant others in the client's past.
What is transference?
100
An attitude essential to the Adlerian therapist used to counter discouragement. It is helpful in increasing courage to face life tasks and may be helpful in goal setting.
What is encouragement?
100
The philosophical movement underpinning the theory, which stresses individual responsibility for creating the life we want to live.
What is existentialism?
100
The act of addressing what is going on between the client and therapist in the moment.
What is immediacy?
100
Techniques that are used to make something happen in a therapy session; they are ready-made, not adapted or created for the client.
What are exercises?
200
The aspect of the person which includes behavioral functions and personality traits that are out-of-awareness; it serves to protect the individual from anxiety.
What is the unconscious?
200
These universal problems of living include attending to issues in friendships, work, and intimacy.
What are life tasks?
200
Core themes that are recurrent in therapy, including death, freedom, existential isolation, and meaninglessness.
What are the "givens of existence"?
200
The central theme and ultimate attainment within a theory that postulates the existence of a hierarchy of needs as a source of motivation.
What is self actualization?
200
Procedures that are spontaneous and inventive, and which serve to bring diverse possibilities for action into the therapy session. These are experiential, and allow the client to try on new ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving.
What are experiments?
300
Freud's notion of the motivating force in life. This drives the id and is the source of psychic energy.
What is the libido?
300
An approach that focuses on the client's perception of the world, and which theorizes that how people interpret reality and attach meaning to experience is more valuable than the search for an objective reality.
What is the phenomenological approach?
300
A response that is disproportional to the situation, out of awareness, and likely to become immobilizing.
What is neurotic anxiety?
300
The name for the attitude of the MI practitioner; it draws on attitudes and skills from person-centered philosophy.
What is the Spirit of MI?
300
The process of attending to one's own experience, including senses, thoughts, emotions, and actions; it involves the flowing nature of experience.
What is awareness?
400
A multi-stage theory of development characterized by the organism's attempt to gain sensual and sexual gratification.
What are the psychosexual stages?
400
A process characterized by a strong will to become competent, master the environment, and improve the self.
What is striving toward superiority?
400
An inescapable aspect of the human condition; it allows authorship of our own lives, and also demands responsibility and accountability for actions
What is freedom?
400
The therapist's nonjudgmental expression of a fundamental respect for the person as a human, regardless of values and respective of the individual's right to their own feelings.
What is unconditional positive regard?
400
The position that authentic change occurs only when we are who we are- not when we try to be who we are not.
What is the paradoxical theory of change?
500
Jung's archetype symbolizing those traits, thoughts, and feelings that we wish to disown, and which we may project outward onto others.
What is the Shadow?
500
It is stated thusly: "How would your life be different if you did not have this symptom or problem?"
What is "the question"?
500
The condition of emptiness and hollowness that results from meaninglessness.
What is the existential vacuum?
500
Natalie Roger's therapy modality in which a client or group accesses inner feelings through an uninterrupted sequence of movement, sound, visual art, and journal writing.
What is Creative Connection?
500
The process by which an individual organizes the environment from moment to moment; a particular aspect is the emergent focus of attention while other details are less salient.