General Issues
This common factor refers to the therapist/client relationship and is the best predictor of therapeutic outcomes.
What is Therapeutic Alliance?
This division of personality is associated with unconscious pleasure seeking and is often characterized as animalistic and amoral.
What is the Id?
This pyramid represents levels of needs in people's lives, with the top of the pyramid representing self-actualization.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
This type of cognitive distortion involves seeing things as "Black and White," with no middle ground.
What is All or Nothing Thinking?
This type of research test whether or not therapy works "in the lab."
What is Efficacy Research?
This refers to the client's feelings, emotions, and behaviors towards the therapist.
What is Transference?
This humanistic concept entails reaching one's full potential.
What is Self-Actualization?
This type of cognitive distortion involves assuming that others are thinking negatively or disapprovingly.
What is Mind Reading?
This stage of change involves a client recognizing that there is a problem but not yet being ready to make changes or commit to change.
What is the Contemplation Stage?
This type of therapy follows a Freudian tradition, often takes years to finish, and focuses largely on exploring the unconscious.
What is Psychoanalytic Therapy?
This humanistic concept involves feeling love and acceptance towards another person with no strings attached.
What is Unconditional Positive Regard?
This model, created by Albert Ellis, describes the relationship between events, thoughts, and consequences.
This common factor refers to an emotional release client's often feel during the therapy process.
What is Catharsis?
This defense mechanism entails placing your "unacceptable" thoughts onto another person, as if they belonged to them.
What is Projection?
This phenomenon occurs when one's real self matches up with one's ideal self.
This type of intervention treats phobias by systematically exposing a patient to feared objects.
What is Exposure Therapy?
This therapeutic approach involves selecting the best treatment based on a client's needs and research.
What is an Eclectic Approach?
This defense mechanism involves "filing away" threatening or unwanted thoughts or emotions into the unconscious mind.
What is Repression?
The goal of this type of therapy is to focus on the "here and now" and become more aware of one's feelings.
What is Gestalt Psychotherapy?
This type of intervention is utilized often to treat depression and involves getting the client to engage in positively reinforcing behaviors.
What is Behavioral Activation?