This is the extent to which psychotherapy works "in the real world"
What is "effectiveness"?
100
When a patient projects feelings associated with a significant other onto the therapist
What is transference?
100
This approach assumes that patients are capable of finding their own solutions to their problems
What is a humanistic approach?
100
Pavlov's dogs are a classic example of this
What is classical conditioning?
100
This is when clients avoid talking about certain topics by changing the subject or talking about unnecessary topics
What is "resistance"?
200
This is something that research has shown contributes to positive psychotherapeutic outcomes
What is the degree of client distress
or
the client's ability to reflect on one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
or
the client's motivation level
200
This is when the therapist projects his/her own feelings onto the client
What is countertransference?
200
This is a branch of humanistic theory that emphasizes human strengths rather than pathology, and cultivation of happiness in addition to reduction of symptoms in therapy
What is positive psychology?
200
This is a well-developed behavioral techniques commonly used to treat phobias
What is systematic desensitization?
200
This is what it's called when someone expects the worst in the future, when, realistically, the worst is unlikely to occur
What is catastrophizing?
300
Named after a character in Alice in Wonderland who says, "everyone has won and all must have prizes,
this is the finding that competing therapy approaches are found to work about equally well
What is the dodo bird verdict?
300
This is what it's called when therapists reveal little about themselves in order to aid the transference process
What is the "blank screen" role?
300
This is when therapist responds to a client by rephrasing or restating the client's statements in a way that highlights the client's feelings or emotions
What is a reflection?
300
Cognitive therapists assign this to clients because they believe that much of the work in therapy happens between sessions
What is homework?
300
He was a man that became the president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, despite suffering from panic attacks
Who is Steven Hayes?
400
This is the type of approach that uses therapeutic techniques from various schools of psychotherapy for working with clients
What is an eclectic or integrative approach?
400
The process of converting latent content (the raw thoughts and feelings of the unconscious) into manifest content (the actual plot of the dream as we remember it)
What is dream work?
400
Humanistic psychotherapists believe that this is what their client's problems come from
What are gaps in self-awareness?
400
In acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this refers to the action of allowing thoughts to come and go without struggling to control them
What is acceptance?
400
A doctor who told her story as a sufferer to the public because she felt she owed it to her patients (this came from an additional reading)
Who is Marsha Linehan?
500
This is a state of mind characterized by subjective incompetence, loss of self-esteem, alienation, hopelessness, and/or helplessness
What is demoralization?
500
This is the primary goal of psychoanalytic approaches tot psychotherapy
What is restructuring the personality (helping patients think and behave in more adaptive ways by understanding the self)?
500
This technique addresses a client's ambivalence or uncertainty about making major changes to their way of life
What is motivational interviewing (MI)?
500
In Rational Emotive Therapy (RET), these are the words that make the acronym "ABCDE"
What are Activating, Belief, Consequences, Dispute and , Effective?
500
This refers to the notion that therapists can have problems and still be effective in providing therapy