Foundational
Presuppositions
Presuppositions
Personality is viewed as a holistic, creative, responsible, & teleological integration of the self- perceived and actual style of life for the individual
What is Adlerian Psychotherapy?
This core condition exist when perceptions of self are harmonious with experiences and relationships
What is congruence?
Mental illness ( depressing, anxietying, phobicking) are purposeful pathological behaviors to accomplish the goals of restraining anger; getting help; and avoiding things we don't want to face.
What is mental illness according to Choice/Reality Therapy? Glasser
This therapy helps client fulfill basic psychological needs, the need to love and be loved, and the need to feel worthwhile to ourselves and others
What is the goal of reality therapy?
This technique works towards the resolution of unfinished business
What is the empty chair or chair work
This theory posits that emotions and behaviors are products of our perceptions of situations, and that survival and reproduction are our motivating goals
What is cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
According to ______ , mental wellness includes being free from unhealthy contact disturbances, having permeable boundaries, and a balance of polarities
What is Gestalt mental health?
According to CBT the sources of people problems stem from:
a.
b.
c.
Maladaptive beliefs
Faulty schemas
distort of ignore information that is inconsistent with negative schemas
environmental pressures related to maladaptive thinking
goals based on primal modes that are anti-social
cognitive distortions
inadequate view of self, world is dangerous, future is uncertain - leads to anxiety
List two therapy goals of CBT:
a.
b.
What are Changing dysfunctional beliefs into more adaptive beliefs?
recognizing automatic thoughts, questioning the evidence and changing the cognition to more closely fit the data?
learning problem solving strategies?
removing systemic biases in thinking?
shifting mode of processing from primal to constructive and conscious control system
Here the counselor discriminate clients' feelings, hear accurately what messages they are sending, grasping the more subtle messages of clients, and return the deeper meanings they are attempting to communicate
What is reflection of feelings?
Philosophically grounded in the belief that the individual is an autonomous and sovereign self, formed by means of reaction to interactions with the environment, especially experiences with others
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
Non perfectionism, non-utopianism or Unconditional self-acceptance, other acceptance, & life-acceptance are of prime importance to mental wellness according to __________
What is REBT mental wellness?
Sources of people's problems result when ___________ and __________ - _________ tendencies become divorced from one another
What are actualizing and self-actualizing tendencies?
Clients are guided to freely make choices in the present, experience the "I-Am," and make suffering constructive
What are the goals of Existential Psychotherapy?
This techniques is a tool used to uncover the belief systems that influence our mood and behavior
What is the Downward Arrow?
An ecological basis of personality whereupon the individual is conceptualized holistically through the sum of all interacting thoughts, body, feelings, sensations, behaviors, and influences
What is Gestalt Therapy?
For Adlerians, mental health means being "High in ___ ____," and having an "Integrated ____ of _____."
What is "High in Social Interest," and "Integrated Style of Life?"
Psychological dysfunction is merely an expression of how one choses to live one's life; albeit without responsibility, control, autonomy, meaning, lack of awareness and lying to oneself
What are sources of people's problems according to Existential Psychotherapy?
This therapy offer a corrective emotional experience, identify and work through resistance, facilitate awareness and acceptance of all of one's experiences
What is the goals of person-Centered therapy?
This technique allows for a contemplative moment between the counselor and client, and give the client the opportunity to take charge of the session, modeling the responsibility and authenticity they need to take control of their life
What is Silence?
This theory is concerned with the subjective, or personal, aspects of individual existence
What is Existential Psychotherapy?
Existential Wellness is:
a. ________
b. ________
c. ________
d. ________
What is:
a. facing the anxieties pf life
b. embracing the human conditions of aloneness
c. reveling in the freedom to choose
d. taking full responsibility for choices
e. choosing new meanings for our lives in stead of arresting feelings of meaninglessness
f. handling ultimate concerns with healthy defense mechanisms
g. courage to transcend
Sources of people's problems from a Gestalt perspective are:
a.
b.
c.
unfinished business
contact disturbances - introjection confluence, retroflection
avoiding contact so needs go unmet
Disrupted Personality Functioning - inability to form clear figures of interest
not having support as a child
separation of body mind spirit
interruptions in self awareness
impasse
phobic layer - fear of real selves, pain of facing dissatisfaction with self
anxiety from living in the future, faulty breathing
This therapy offers clients opportunities for reconstruction of their goals; facilitate development of skills in tasks of life; and opportunities to witness and recognize that "feelings of inferiority" are normal
What are the goals of Adlerian therapy?
This technique is used to reframe a problem.
What is Paradoxical Intervention?