Tip of the Iceberg
This theorist believed that individuals can mitigate biological influences through goal-oriented behavior
Who is Alfred Adler?
According to William Glasser, these are the five essential human needs.
What are belonging, power/achievement, fun/enjoyment, freedom/independence, and Survival?
A client who was initially afraid of peaches and is now afraid of all stone fruits exemplifies this classical conditioning experience.
What is stimulus generalization?
This behavioral technique involves putting yourself into the types of situations you’re trying to overcome.
What is Exposure Therapy?
A client who refuses to acknowledge thoughts or feelings they don't want to deal with is using this defense mechanism
What is denial?
According to Freud, these are the structures of personality.
What are the id, ego, superego?
These are types of cognitive distortions (name four).
What are disqualifying the positive, catastrophizing, all or nothing thinking, magical thinking, overgeneralization, personalization, jumping to conclusions, mind reading, fortune telling, shoulds, emotional reasoning, etc.?
A client who is miserable because all they do is work might be lacking in this basic human need.
What is fun?
The difference between this concept and a schema is that a schema typically includes guidelines for future functioning.
Adlerian theory includes a lot of techniques, name two.
What is...?
This counseling theorist focused on archetypes and the collective unconscious, and his ideas are the basis for the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory. He’s also a character in a really bad movie.
Who is Carl Jung?
Adler's term for a client's thinking pattern that justifies their lifestyle and goals
What is private logic?
Before I have breakfast and check my email, I try to play the drums. Glasser might describe this as a
What is a positive addiction?
This term refers to increasing behavior by removing something unpleasant.
Negative Reinforcement
This theorist was against prescribing medication, believing mental illness was a coping strategy for lack of quality relationships to fulfill essential needs.
Who is William Glasser?
This concept, from Adler, states that human nature is to feel a sense of community, live cooperatively with others, and value common good above own interests
What is Social Interest?
These are the names for the ABCDEFs of REBT.
What are activating event (adversity), belief, consequence, dispute, new effective outcomes, new feeling?
When assessing a client, Adler would identify instances where the client experienced felt minus, looking for this important concept
What are inferiorities?
In cognitive behavioral theory, these types of thoughts emerge spontaneously and unintentionally after being filtered through distorted belief systems.
What are Automatic Thoughts?
This Freudian defense mechanism might best be summarized by the Shakespearean quote, “The lady doth protest too much.”
What is Reaction Formation?
William Glasser's name for thinking, feeling, acting, and physiology.
What is Total Behavior?
Identify the manifest and latent content of this dream: Giving a presentation in only your underwear
What is....?
Albert Ellis believed this popular psychological concept is inauthentic, instead preferring self-acceptance.
What is Self-Esteem?