A psychodynamic approach that focuses on responsibility, life meaning, purposeful behavior, and conscious action
What is Adlerian Therapy?
This therapeutic approach suggests that projections onto leader and members are clues to unresolved intrapsychic conflicts that can be identified, explored, and worked through in group counseling
What is Psychoanalytic Therapy?
Therapists’ legal duty to not disclose information about clients
What is Confidentiality?
Life stage that involves testing limits, breaking down dependent ties, and establishing a new identity
What is Adolescence (Identity vs. Role Confusion)?
Grasping facts, feelings, and significance of another person’s story along with conveying understanding of client’s subjective experience
What is Empathy?
Emphasizes personal characteristics of therapist, quality of therapeutic relationship, and person’s capacity for self-directed growth in therapy
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
Initial goal is for clients to expand their awareness of present moment as clients can become integrated or whole through the awareness of denied parts
What is Gestalt Therapy?
When a therapist overidentifies with a client or meets their own needs through a client
What is Countertransference?
The structure of personality that is largely unconscious and ruled by the pleasure principle
What is the Id?
An advanced reflecting skill that can be used present themes or patterns of content, feelings, or meaning
What is Summarizing?
Philosophical approach to exploring themes such as mortality, meaning, freedom, responsibility, and anxiety
What is Existential Therapy?
Assumes change begins by deconstructing the power of cultural narratives and co-constructing a new life of meaning
What are Postmodern Approaches (SBFT and Narrative Therapy)?
Learning new words at various levels of intensity will help therapists practice this skill and keep them from overshooting or undershooting
What is Reflecting Feeling?
Operate on an unconscious level to help an individual cope with anxiety and prevent ego from being overwhelmed
What is Ego-Defense Mechanisms?
Used to present a condensed or distilled version of a client’s story
What is Paraphrasing?
Structured, educational, and action-oriented approach that focuses on directly observable behavior and learning experiences that promote change
What is Behavior Therapy?
Used for conducting an assessment to illustrate family structure and includes information about relationships and interactions between family members
What are Genograms?
A way therapists convey attention and understanding without interrupting the client's story and are often accompanied by head nodding
What are Minimal Encouragers?
Client’s unconscious projection of experiences with caregivers or significant figures who played important roles during development
What is Transference?
When a therapist talks openly about something that is occurring in the present moment of therapy session
What is Immediacy?
Considers social and cultural context to provide a systemic perspective for understanding the impact of society and affecting social change
What is Feminist Therapy?
Client-centered and deliberately directive approach aimed at reducing client ambivalence and increasing intrinsic motivation for change
What is Motivational Interviewing (MI)?
Lifelong process of developing awareness, acquiring knowledge, and learning skills necessary for therapists to work effectively with culturally diverse populations
What is Multicultural Competency?
The ego-defense mechanism that refers to going back to an earlier phase of development when there were fewer demands
What is Regression?
Highlights discrepancies in beliefs, behaviors, words, or nonverbals because cognitive dissonance motivates clients to resolve incongruencies
What are Challenging Skills?