Pathology
Several answers possible (e.g., the patient is experiencing cognitive distortions, she holds maladaptive core beliefs)
What treatment goals would a Third Wave Therapist have for this patient? How does the Third Wave stance help promote these goals?
Several possible goals (e.g., to help the patient brainstorm more committed actions related to her values, to help the patient defuse from her negative self-thoughts). The stances of ACT or DBT can be invoked (e.g., assuming that the patient is Whole, Complete, and Perfect; assuming that the patient is trying the best she can but also may need to change and do better).
What technique(s) would a Traditional Humanistic Therapist use to accomplish treatment goals?
Reflections
[What is the purpose of a reflection? How did MI expand on the techniques that therapists could use?]
What would a Psychoanalytic or Psychodynamic Therapist hypothesize is causing this patient's pathology?
Several possible answers (e.g., the patient learned as a child that females are really only meant for reproducing, the patient's superego has convinced her that she is supposed to have a child, etc.)
What treatment goals would a Cognitive-Behavior Therapist have for this patient? How does the CBT stance help promote these goals?
Several possible goals (e.g., to engage in other positive and reinforcing life activities with her husband, to learn to think more rationally). The key element of the CBT stance is collaboration -- whatever the goals are, the patient and therapist will work together to come up with activities for accomplishing them.
What technique(s) would a Third Wave Therapist use to accomplish treatment goals?
Several possible techniques (e.g., mindfulness, committed action, distress tolerance skills).
[Be sure to be able to explain how that technique would achieve a given treatment goal.]
What would a Third Wave Therapist hypothesize is causing this patient's pathology?
Several possible answers (e.g., the patient is stuck on goals and is not thinking about other ways to live out her values, the patient has poor emotion regulation skills to help her deal with stressors, etc.)
What treatment goals would a Traditional Humanistic Therapist have for this patient? How does the humanistic stance help promote these goals?
Several possible goals (e.g., to allow the patient a space to think about her values, to facilitate the patient's own thinking about the (in)congruence between who she is and who she appears to be. The stance of unconditional positive regard, empathic concern, and genuineness can be invoked.
[How did MI build on the goals and stance of Traditional Humanism?]
What technique(s) would a Psychoanalytic/ Psychodynamic Therapist use to accomplish treatment goals?
Techniques include free association, interpretation, and eliciting transference.
What would a Traditional Humanistic Therapist hypothesize is causing this patient's pathology?
Several possible answers (e.g., the patient is experiencing a lack of agency, the patient is operating on conditions of worth that she is "supposed" to be a mom, etc.)
[How did MI alter the focus and hypothesizing of traditional humanism?]
What treatment goals would a Psychoanalytic/ Psychodynamic Therapist have for this patient? How does the Psychoanalytic stance help promote these goals?
Several possible goals (e.g., to help the patient gain insight into how early childhood experiences are affecting current relationships, to draw out deeper unconscious drives and conflicts). Analytic neutrality allows for any and all patient thoughts to emerge, without being promoted or put down by the non-verbal reactions of the therapist.
What technique(s) would a Cognitive-Behavior Therapist use to accomplish treatment goals?
[Be able to explain how a technique is able to achieve a given goal.]