Old white guys
Potent pathology
In theory...
Well, technically
Eclectic essentials
100

Congruence

Unconditional positive regard

Empathy

Who is Carl Rogers?

100

The ultimate concerns of death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness produce this symptom.

What is anxiety?

100

In Freud's structural approach, this force represents one's conscious decision making and includes memory, logical thought, and the use of defense mechanisms.

What is the ego?

100

This technique allows clients to work out internal or interpersonal conflict through top dog and underdog polarities, often requiring them to shift where they are sitting.

What is empty chair?

100

Involves gathering together and organizing knowledge about a particular object or phenomenon and is used to generate a hypothesis about human thinking, emotions, and behavior.

What is a theory?

200

Gemeinschaftsgefühl (social interest)

Vollkommenheit (completeness or superiority)

Ermutigung (encouragement)

Who is Alfred Adler?

200

If an individual should experience only unconditional positive regard, then none of these would develop, self-regard would be unconditional, the needs for positive regard and self-regard would never be at variance with organismic evaluation, and the individual would continue to be psychologically adjusted, and would be fully functioning.

What are conditions of worth?

200

This Existential way of being refers to being-with-others or the social world.

What is mitwelt?

200

In this kind of testing, we might provide ambiguous stimulus that clients interpret (e.g. Rorschach Inkblot Test, the Thematic Apperception Test, free association to specific words, and human figure drawings).

What is projective testing?

200

A process that involves a trained professional who abides by accepted ethical guidelines and has competencies for working with diverse individuals who are in distress or have life problems that led them to seek help (possibly at the insistence of others) or they may be seeking personal growth, but either way, these parties establish an explicit agreement (informed consent) to work together (more or less collaboratively) toward mutually acceptable goals using theoretically based or evidence-based procedures that, in the broadest sense, have been shown to facilitate human learning or human development or reduce disturbing symptoms.

What is counseling or psychotherapy?

300

I and thou

Here and now

What and how

Who is Fritz Perls?

300

When individuals become this, they are unwilling or unable to deal with essential life tasks, and symptoms develop from poor attempts to address life tasks.

What is discouragement?

300

A single source of energy within people that moves them forward towards actualization.

What is the actualizing or formative tendency?

300

These are the types of questions an Existential counselor may avoid because they promote intellectualization.

Why?

300

Includes extratherapeutic factors, the therapeutic relationship, expectancy, and techniques.

What is the Four Factor Model?

400

Drive or instinct theory

Oedipal and Electra complexes

The unconscious

Who is Sigmund Freud?

400

When this concept is disturbed (or clients are resistant to it), boundary disturbances of introjection, projection, retroflection, deflection, and confluence emerge and disrupt learning.

What is contact?

400

Private logic refers to the unique reasoning that individuals use to invent and justify their style of life or personality. This focus on subjective internal experience and reality are in line with this qualitative research method.

What is phenomenology?

400

Instead of technical strategies, person-centered counselors develop this, incorporating a deep trust for their clients and trust in the power of healing relationships.

What is a way of being?

400

This kind of research emphasizes external validity (generalizability) and considers the outcome of treatment as it is delivered in real world settings.

What is effectiveness research?

500

The daimonic

Anxiety

From philosophy to practice

Who is Rollo May?

500

Psychoanalysts believe in this, or the notion that there is a psychological explanation for every emotion, thought, impulse, and behavior. When the model becomes dysfunctional from over- or underindulgance, a repetition compulsion may occur and continue until adulthood.

What is psychic determinism?

500

This refers to our ability to shift between cognitive or perceptual focus. We are always a little aware of the background and through counseling intentionally turn up the background noise by shifting focus of awareness.

What is the figure formation process?

500

This intervention, demonstrated poorly at the beginning of one class, is both a metaphor and technique for spoiling a client's use of avoidance.

What is spitting in the soup?

500

This ethical essential refers to a client's right to know about and agree to the ways you intend to work with them.

What is informed consent?