Person Centered Theory
Offering guidance, exploring options, and helping clients navigate systems and services, all while respecting their right to make choices that align with their values and preferences
What is Promoting self-determination
The system closest to the client
What is microsystem
Attachment theory predicts
What is
Early caregiver relationships establish social-emotional developmental foundations
Personality consists of three systems
What is id, ego, and superego
Unconditional Positive Regard
Acceptance regardless of thoughts, feelings or behaviors
According to systems theory, the focus of analysis is on
What is interactions between the individual and the environment
The first phase of development according to Winnicott is
What is absolute dependence
Both the________ and ________ are the keys to understanding behavior and problems of personality
What is conscious and unconscious
-An openness to experience
-Living a life following one's values and capabilities;
adaptability; inductive thinking
-Making decisions on one's own rather than based on the opinions of others
What is Congruence
A family strives to maintain a stable family unit despite outside forces (e.g., death, change in economic status, or children leaving home) that might disrupt the family.
What is Homeostasis
Characterized by how a person sees others as “good” or “bad” before seeing them as “whole”
What is Splitting
The ultimate goal of psychoanalytic therapy
What is increased adaptive functioning; help clients build capacity to cope with and solve their
own problems
Three goals of Person Centered Theory
What is
1. Move from incongruence to congruence
2. Reduce distortions
3. Increased self-empowerment
An example of an open system
What is school, church, social groups, etc.
Three types of insecure attachment
What is
1. Anxious-ambivalent
2. Avoidant
3. Disorganized
Founder of Psychoanalytic theory
What is Sigmund Freud
One limitation of Person Centered Theory
What is
-Can lull practitioners into a sense of false security
-Surface level interactions are good in the beginning but not sustainable long term
-Minimal guidelines for confrontation (where, when, and how it should occur)
Founder of Systems Theory
What is Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Criticism of the theory
• Features vague concepts
• Intervention strategies are difficult to
operationalize & evaluate
• Focuses attention on processes of early
development
• May not reflect client diversity
• Not useful in traditional social work
settings
• Parent-blaming approach
Stores all experiences, memories, and repressed material
What is the unconscious