Behavioral Approaches
Cognitive/cognitive-behavioral approaces
Unhelpful Thinking
Marriage and Family Therapy-bowenian
Couples therapy
100
The object or thing that naturally leads to some response
What is Unconditioned Stimulus
100
view something as more important than it is
What is magnification
100
assigning labels to ourselves or other people
What is labeling
100
enmeshed or entangled with family of origin
What is fused
100
the role of communication strived for
What is congruent
200
The natural or automatic response (unlearned)
What is unconditioned response
200
erroneously attributing external events to yourself
What is personalization
200
Discounting the good things that have happened or that you have done for some reason or another
What is disqualifying the positive
200
using a third person to maintain stability in the relationship
What is triangulation
200
three goals of couples therapy
What are: reducing threat, facilitating effective communication, and facilitating actual problem solving
300
Teaching new responses incompatible with negative emotions such as deep muscle relaxation, deep breathing, or pleasant thoughts.
What is desensitization
300
therapist and client examine evidence regarding client's cognitions
What is collaborative empiricism
300
blowing things out of proportion
What is magnification or catastrophising
300
Three techniques of Bowenian Therapy
What are three of the following: Modeling/teaching observation, working with marital subsystems, having spouses talk to therapist rather than each other, using a genogram to illustrate family dynamics, and confronting family of origin.
300
aiming to reduce or eliminate problem behavior or increase positive, effective behaviors
What is behavioral couples counseling
400
Imagined "punishment" to create new learning and creates classically conditioned anxiety/aversion. Can be used to treat alcoholism, bedwetting, or sucking one's thumb.
What is aversion therapy
400
Ellis' REBT techniques
What is disputing, shame-attacking exercises, and imagery
400
Assuming that because we feel a certain way, what we are thinking must be true
What is emotional reasoning
400
lack of differentiation perpetuates through generations of families
What is multi generational transmission process
400
The idea that couples act defensively towards each other because they do not feel safe. This aims to help couples express their subjective experience.
What is experiential-humanistic approach
500
This group feels that behavior therapy has strayed from classic behaviorism. They rcongize understanding, thinking, and feeling as important, and feel that behavior therapy must be designed for each individual to match their needs.
What is radical behaviorism
500
explain causes of behavior in terms of themselves or the world. Those who are depressed blame unchangeable aspects of themselves for problems.
What is attribution theory
500
seeing a pattern based upon a single event, or being overly broad in the conclusions we draw
What is overgeneralization
500
ability to regulate emotions and maintain a sense of self in the context of others
what is differentiation
500
derived from client centered therapy, this goal is to prevent problems from developing. Understanding emotions, wishes, goals, and conflicts are a part of this study. Teaches effective communication.
What is relationship enhancement
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