Misc
Founder of psychoanalysis and the psychodynamic approach
Who is Sigmund Freud
What are the three parts of personality?
What is the Id, Ego, and Superego
Social worker attempts to draw out the client's thoughts and feelings about an issue to encourage the client to express or explore the concept
What is Exploration
Ways that we protect ourselves from things that we don't want to talk about or deal with
What are Defense Mechanisms
Social worker is overly eager OR not looking forward to seeing a client
What is Countertransferance
What is Ego Psychology
Personality component that is responsible for dealing with reality
What is Ego
Process in which social worker balances being supportive and confrontational when needed
What is Sustainment
Unconsciously blocking unacceptable thoughts from conscious awareness
What is Repression
The client has negative experiences with authority figures, which creates mistrust in social worker
What is Transference
Thoughts, memories, feelings, and wishes of which we are aware at any given moment.
What is Conscious
Personality component made up of unconscious energy that works to satisfy basic urges, needs, and desires
What is the Id
An example of this intervention would involved a social worker engaging the client in a pro and con discussion on client's actions
What is Person-Situation Reflection
Refusing to accept reality or facts, acting as if a painful event did not happen
What is Denial
A therapist finds themself feeling protective and parental towards a client
What is Countertransferance
Thoughts you are not actively thinking of but could potentially bring into the conscious mind
What is Preconscious
I am responsible for making you feel guilty when you have violated a social norm
What is Superego
By breaking down a concern into sections, a social worker can help decrease overwhelming feelings in a client and promote a sense of competence
What is Partializing
Attributing one's own unacceptable thoughts or feelings to others
What is Projection
The client idealizes or devalues you based on perceived similarities to someone from their past
What is Transferance
Feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that are outside of our conscious awareness.
What is Unconscious
A man who accidentally uses a former girlfriend's name when referring to a current girlfriend
What is Freudian slip
Intervention involves the social worker providing information on various concepts that can include biological and psychological functioning
What is Education
A student's anger at her professor, who is threatening as an authority figure, is transposed into anger at her boyfriend, a safer target
What is Displacement
A social worker has been meeting with a 28-year-old woman for the past six months to work on issues of depression and suicidal ideation. The social worker observes that on days that she meets with this client, later in the day she spends a lot of time thinking about death and experiences a lower mood. What is this an example of?
What is Countertransferance