Key People
Key Concepts
Philosophical Underpinnings
Therapeutic Process
Therapeutic Techniques
100

In existential counseling, he is known for identifying the "4 givens" of existence: death, freedom, existential isolation, and meaninglessness.

Who is Irvin Yalom?

100

This is the concept that promotes two people (counselor and client) experiencing one another as fully authentic and independent while being fully authentic and independent as well.

What is the I-Thou relationship?

100

This concepts states that all people experience underlying stressors that come from freedom, choice, isolation, meaninglessness, and death

What is existential angst?

100

This is the goal of Existential Therapy

What is assisting clients in being able to live in the moment while staying purposeful and finding meaning in existence

100

The main technique used in Existential Counseling

What is focused listening?

200

He developed the cognitive model of depression and also examined underlying dysfunctional beliefs of psychopathology. (CBT)

Who is Aaron Beck?

200

Using Aaron Beck's cognitive theory, Albert Ellis formed this theoretical assumption to highlight that it is our thoughts of a particular situation, rather than the situation itself, that intertwines with the consequences in result.

What is the ABC theory?

200

This is the missing link that falls between a situation and the feelings or behaviors that come as a result

What are beliefs?

200

The primary vehicle for change within Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy

What is action?

200

This intervention can be defined by the following four categories: problem oriented, change oriented, bibliotherapy, and cinema therapy

What is psychoeducation?

300

This man, after publishing Psychology of the Unconscious, ended his friendship with Sigmund Freud due to a divergence in thinking.

Who is Carl Jung.

300

These three components make up the structure of personality as described by Jung.

What is the conscious mind, personal unconscious, and collective unconscious

300

Beck's four levels of cognitive conceptualization

What are automatic thoughts, intermediate beliefs, core beliefs, and schemas

300

The role of the counselor, according to Jungian theory is that of a ____ or ______.

What is archetypal healer or guide?

300

The idea that dreams are "the unconscious expressing itself" comes from this Jungian therapeutic technique

What is dream analysis?

400

This person is responsible for the I-Thou encounter associated with Existential Counseling.

Who is Martin Bauber

400

This is the existential idea that humans have the freedom to choose how they respond to a situation

What is freedom and responsibility

400

The goal of Jungian counseling is to build a relationship between the _____ and the ______.

What is the ego and Self and the unconscious and the conscious mind

400

The four problems of existence addressed by Existentialism

What is Death and Anxiety, Freedom and Responsibility, Isolation and Relationship, Meaninglessness

400

Confrontation is used in Existential Counseling as a means to do this.

What is point out incongruence?

500

This person was responsible for developing the REBT theory of change used in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.

Who is Albert Ellis

500

Referring to Heraclitus's law, this concept believes that, "everything sooner or later turns into its opposite"

What is Enantiodromia?

500

This is the store of universal archetypes, myths, fairy tales, and experiences common to each individual's psyche which can be used in psychological healing, according to Jungian theory

What is the collective unconscious?

500

Jungian counseling is focused on ________  _________ as a goal.

What is relieving suffering?

500

In Jungian theory, counselors interpret the piling up of coincidental events as due to the existence of the collective unconscious according to this therapeutic idea

What is synchronicity?

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