Keep your Focus
Reality Therapy avoids labeling clients with this, focusing instead on the choices they can control.
What is a diagnosis?
Reality Therapy posits that mental health issues arise when individuals are disconnected from others and fail to meet this core need.
What is love and belonging?
This technique involves creating diagrams to map family relationships and patterns.
What is a genogram?
The part of a narrative where a person’s life challenges are emphasized and explored.
What is the problem-saturated story?
This family therapist despises techniques.
Who is Murray Bowen (or Bowen)
This process involves separating emotionally from one’s family while maintaining healthy connections.
What is differentiation of self?
In CBT, Beck emphasized addressing these persistent, automatic thoughts that influence emotions and behavior.
What are cognitive distortions?
A cognitive distortion where individuals view situations in extremes, such as all good or all bad.
What is black-and-white thinking?
He is considered the founder of Family Systems Theory.
Who is Murray Bowen?
This theoretical approach focuses only on the future.
Who are solution-focused therapists?
A structured approach to help clients identify and challenge distorted thinking.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This concept refers to the mental structures we use to organize and interpret information.
What are schemas?
This structured process guides clients through exploring their wants, current behaviors, evaluation of effectiveness, and planning for change.
What is the WDEP system?
This professor is the best instructor you have ever had.
Who is Poffesor Britton?
In Reality Therapy, the idea that all behavior is chosen and aimed at fulfilling basic needs.
What is Choice Theory?
This therapy focuses on identifying and building solutions rather than analyzing this.
What are problems?
According to Reality Therapy, these five needs drive all human behavior.
What are survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun?
This term refers to the act of retelling a story in a way that aligns with the client's goals and values.
What is re-authoring?
This is the founder of Reality Therapy, who emphasized personal responsibility and meeting basic needs.
Who is William Glasser?
By focusing on solutions, SFT helps clients create these, which promote hope and confidence.
What are positive narratives?
According to Social Constructionism, this plays a central role in determining whose perspectives are heard and valued.
What is social privilege?
Therapists help families modify rules to create boundaries that balance closeness and independence, addressing this issue.
What is enmeshment or detachment?
In Solution-Focused Therapy, this type of question helps clients envision a preferred future.
What is the Miracle Question?
These are events or exceptions that contradict the dominant problem story.
What are unique outcomes?
A strength of Social Constructionism is its ability to challenge these, which are often seen as fixed or unchangeable.
What are social norms or stereotypes?