An image of our specific wants as well as precise ways to satisfy these wants.
What is a picture album?
100
The view that humans are internally motivated and behave to control the world around them according to some purpose within them. We are basically self-determining and create our own destiny.
What is Choice Theory?
100
Assumes that human development is a lifelong process and that personality patterns and behavioral changes can occur at any time.
What is life-span perspective?
100
An invisible package of unearned assets White people enjoy that are not extended to people of color.
What is white privilege?
100
In these relationships, power should be balanced. In feminist therapy the voices of the oppressed are acknowledged as authoritative and valuable sources of knowledge.
What is the egalitarian relationship?
200
The key procedures applied to the practice of reality therapy groups which helps clients to identify their wants, determine the direction their behavior is taking them, make self-evaluations, and design plans for change.
What is WDEP system?
200
The term for a therapist's interest in and caring for the client.
What is involvement?
200
A technique whereby the counselor changes the frame of reference for looking at an individual’s behavior. There is a shift from an intrapersonal (or “blaming the victim”) stance to a consideration of social factors in the
environment that contribute to a client’s problem.
What is reframing?
200
An organized set of mental associations people use to interpret their perceptions about gender
What is gender schema?
200
Used to help clients understand the impact of gender-role expectations in their lives.
What is gender role analysis?
300
An acronym pertaining to the essence of a good action plan: simple, attainable, measurable, immediate, involved, controlled by the planner, committed to, and continuously done.
What is SAMIC3?
300
The theory's use of this term refers to satisfying one’s needs in ways that do not interfere with others’ fulfilling their needs.
What is responsibility?
300
An intervention that changes the label or evaluation applied to the client’s behavioral characteristics. Generally, the focus is shifted from a negative to a positive evaluation.
What is relabeling?
300
These approaches explain differences in the behavior of women and men in terms of socialization processes rather than on the basis of our “innate” natures, thus avoiding stereotypes in social roles and interpersonal behavior.
What is gender-fair approaches?
300
This phrase captures the belief that individuals’ personal problems have social and political causes. Therapy is aimed at helping clients change their own behavior and become active participants in transforming society.
What is "the personal is political"?
400
The perceptions and images we have of how we can fulfill our basic psychological needs; another phrase for picture album.
What is the quality world?
400
The integrated components of doing, thinking, feeling, and physiology. Choice theory assumes that all elements of behavior are interrelated.
What is total behavior?
400
A perspective suggesting that a woman’s sense of identity and self-concept develop in the context of relationships.
What is Relational-cultural theory?
400
The practice of considering one’s own cultural group to be superior to others, and a belief that other groups should be judged based on one’s own standards. "White feminism" operates within this practice.
What is ethnocentrism?
400
A method aimed at helping clients understand how unequal access to power and resources can influence personal realities.
What is power analysis?
500
The reality that we experience and interpret subjectively.
What is the perceived world?
500
The needs for belonging, power, freedom, and fun; these are the forces that drive humans and explain behavior.
What are psychological needs?
500
Uses concepts and strategies that apply equally to individuals and groups regardless of age, race, culture, gender, ability, class, or sexual orientation.
What is flexible multicultural perspective?
500
Feminism opposes this practice of using male-oriented constructs to draw conclusions about human, including female, nature.
What is androcentrism?
500
Participating in some activity outside of the therapy office (such as some kind of volunteer work in the community) that is likely to empower clients by helping them see the link between their personal experiences and the
social context in which they live.