Founder Facts
This theorist developed Person-Centered Therapy.
Who is Carl Rogers?
This Gestalt technique involves speaking to an imagined person or part of oneself.
What is the empty-chair technique?
“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.”
Who is Albert Ellis?
In Psychoanalytic Therapy, this is the primary mechanism of change achieved through interpretation.
What is insight?
This therapy emphasizes the organismic self (true self) versus the self-concept (beliefs about self).
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
This founder believed that humans are motivated by striving for significance and social interest.
Who is Alfred Adler?
This CBT tool helps identify connections among events, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
What is the thought record?
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Who is Carl Rogers?
In Person-Centered Therapy, change occurs when clients experience these three conditions.
What are congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathy?
This Adlerian concept refers to a person’s roadmap or core beliefs guiding behavior.
What is lifestyle?
This theorist created Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and emphasized disputing irrational beliefs.
Who is Albert Ellis?
Narrative therapists use this technique to separate the person from the problem.
What is externalizing?
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
Who is Søren Kierkegaard (existential therapy influence)?
In Behavioral Therapy, change happens through this process of pairing stimuli with responses.
What is conditioning (classical or operant)?
In Cognitive Therapy, these repeated patterns of distorted thinking—such as catastrophizing or mind reading—contribute to emotional distress.
What are cognitive distortions?
This psychoanalyst theorist split off from Freud and founded a model of development.
Who is Erik Erikson?
In Solution-Focused Therapy, clients are asked to imagine waking up to their problems being solved.
What is the miracle question?
“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to the unconscious.”
Who is Sigmund Freud?
In Family Systems Therapy, this approach uses restructuring to change relational patterns.
What is Structural Family Therapy?
This existential concept describes the anxiety that arises from confronting one’s ultimate freedom.
What is existential anxiety?
This family systems pioneer developed Structural Family Therapy.
Who is Salvador Minuchin?
This Adlerian technique involves prescribing the client’s symptom in order to disrupt its function.
What is paradoxical intention?
"I do my thing and you do your thing"
Who is Fitz Perls?
In Narrative Therapy, change occurs when clients create these alternative interpretations of their lives.
What are preferred stories (or re-authored stories)?
In Family Systems Theory, this process occurs when anxiety between two family members is stabilized by involving a third person.
What is triangulation?