Psychotherapy Review

Psychodynamic

100

Freud began his research by studying patients with which kinds of disorders?

Conversion Disorders - then called hysteria

200

What are the "objects" in the object relations variation of psychoanalysis?

People who have emotional significance to the client - often mothers or caregivers

300

Interpersonal therapy focuses on events that occur when?

After Childhood

400

What is the difference between manifest and latent content in dreams?

Manifest - The obvious, i.e. what is happening in the dreams

Latent - Underlying wishes, impulses, and fantasies of the dreamer

500

What is countertransference?

When the therapist starts to treat the client like they are the source of the client's unconscious issues. 

Example: Sarah unconsciously starts to treat Dr. Brown like her Mother who abused her as a child. In turn, Dr. Brown unintentionally begins to treat Sarah as her child.

Humanistic

100

What is the synonymous phrase for acceptance?

Unconditional Positive Regard

200

Client cries, therapist feels sad. Client is stressed, therapist feels stressed. What is the therapist displaying?

Empathy

300

You are acting with congruence. You cannot stand cilantro. Maybe you are allergic.

Your client eats cilantro. How do you act?

Disgusted or Paniced

400

Define Gestalt therapy.

An active treatment designed to help clients get in touch genuine feelings and disown foreign ones.

500

1. Who first used client-centered therapy?

2. What couple developed Gestalt therapy?

Carl Rogers

The Perls (Laura and Frederick)

Behavior

500

1. If you rely on classical conditioning principles for treatment you use -----

2. If you rely on operant conditioning principles for treatment, you use -----

3. If your treatment methods involve changing behavior as well as the way someone thinks, you use -----

1. Behavior Therapy

2. Behavior Modification

3. Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Group+Family+Couples

100

True or False: Family therapy can follow Humanistic and Behavioral treatments but not psychodynamic treatments.

False

200

Give an example of a self-help organization.

Alcoholics Anonymous, Overeaters anonymous

300

Name one disorder/issue than can be efficaciously treated using group, family, or couples therapy?

Schizophrenia: Family Therapy

Marital Discord: Couples Therapy

400

Jared was just diagnosed with major depressive disorder. This was triggered by his family foreclosing on their home due to his parents' alcoholism.

This highlights that problems within a family usually reflect functioning of the entire family. This can be coined as... (two words)

Family System

500

What approach concentrates on family communication patterns and changing patterns of behavior that creates alliances?

Structural Family Therapy