Theorists
With a focus on the counseling relationship and the client's capacity for self-healing, this person is said to have revolutionized psychotherapy.
Who is Carl Rogers?
The therapeutic relationship in this theory is egalitarian and emphasizes empowerment.
What is feminist therapy?
Skills are taught in four modules: mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotional regulation, and distress tolerance
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?
Under appropriate conditions, each person has the natural potential for growth and actualization through which they can find meaning.
What is humanistic philosophy?
An axiom of this theory is that the past may have contributed to a problem, but the past is never the problem.
What is Choice Theory?
Projections that influence the way we perceive or react to a client.
A client is experiencing anxiety about school and says, "I must maintain a 4.0 GPA, but am going to get a B in math this semester". The therapist helps the client to learn to challenge this type of thinking.
What is disputing irrational beliefs (REBT)?
REBT, the first of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, was developed by this person who credits Alfred Adler as having an influence on his work.
Who is Albert Ellis?
The I/Thou concept characterized by direct, mutual, and present interaction is significant to this therapeutic relationship.
What is Gestalt therapy?
In this approach, the therapist elicits and reinforces change talk.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
One defining characteristic of this approach is that it is based on the scientific method.
What is behavior therapy?
Central to Adlerian therapy, this is the process of increasing the courage to face life's difficulties.
What is encouragement?
The right of clients to be informed about their therapy and make autonomous decisions.
What is informed consent?
A 10-year old boy is having difficulty in school, in particular, understanding social cues and responding appropriately. He has been suspended for the second time due to actions that were the result of misreading another person's intentions. You suggest a group that will help him learn to develop stronger interpersonal and communication skills.
What is social skills training (Behavior Therapy)?
First developed by this person, Gestalt Therapy looks very different in its current form.
Who is Fritz Perls?
Unlike the humanistic approaches, in this type of theory, the relationship with the client is necessary, but not sufficient for change to occur.
What is Behavior Therapy?
After establishing a relationship, the therapist conducts a subjective interview to help the client tell their life story.
What is Adlerian therapy?
Avoid focusing on symptoms and rejecting the traditional view of mental illness, this theory has been used successfully in substance use disorders.
What is Choice Theory/Reality Therapy?
Congruence, unconditional positive regard, and accurate empathic understanding.
What are the core conditions that are necessary and sufficient for change (person-centered approach)?
A legal concept that protects clients from having their confidential communication revealed in court without their permission.
What is privileged communication
A client is in a relationship but is uncertain of their partner's level of commitment. They live in fear of the partner leaving them. In session, the therapist asks the client to act out the event to help clarify/express their concerns.
What is the future projection technique (Gestalt)?
Unresolved conflicts in early stages of development are what this theorist believed to be the cause of issues later in life.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The client-counselor relationship is characterized by presence and authenticity.
What is Existential therapy?
The therapist may have the client act out their dream as if it is happening in the moment.
What is Gestalt?
In Gestalt therapy, this describes the tenet that authentic change occurs more from being who we are than from trying to be who we are not.
What is the paradoxical theory of change?
In Jung's teaching, the persona, animus and anima, and shadow are images of universal experiences contained in the collective unconscious.
What are archetypes?
Evaluate the relevant factors in a client's life to identify themes for further exploration.
What is assessment?
A client's aging mother has moved into their home. Since then, there has been more conflict between that individual and their spouse. They come to you for help and you ask them to tell you about a time when the relationship was not in conflict.
What is the exception question (SFBT)?
Who is Robert Wubbolding?
In this Postmodern approach, the therapist actively helps guide the client toward solution talk.
What is Solution Focused Brief Therapy?
As a form of assessment, the counselor may co-construct a genogram.
What is Family Systems Therapy?
Change occurs by exploring how language is used to create and maintain problems.
What is Narrative Therapy?
Searching for common elements across different theoretical systems.
What is the common factors approach to an integrated counseling perspective?
Set healthy boundaries early in the therapeutic relationship.
What is one way to minimize risk in multiple relationships?
A client you have been seeing loses a sibling in a car accident. The client has been in recovery, but in the wave of grief, has had a relapse. They are now struggling to stop drinking. In session, you ask them, "What do you think stops you from making the changes you would like?"
What is encouraging self-evaluation? (Choice Theory/Reality Therapy)?