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100

Life's three main tasks, according to Adler.

What are friendship, work, and love?

100
In this therapeutic approach, a phase is dedicated to analyzing transference and countertransference. 

What is the middle phase of psychodynamic therapy?

100

The benefits of evidence based practice.

What is moving the research focus beyond what ESTs can provide, and being more culturally sensitive and ethical?

100

This APA division established treatment guidelines for ESTs and manualized psychological treatments.

What is the APA Division 12 Task Force?

100

"Embrace your demons and follow your heart:" this is the primary philosophy behind Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

What is the acceptance of unwanted experiences, and the commitment to moving towards one's values?

200

How complex! This deep-seated feeling of worthlessness can result in physical disability.

What is an inferiority complex?

200

These behavioral approaches defined 1st wave approaches.

What are classical and operant conditioning, focusing on shaping/conditioning behaviors?

200

This type of research asks whether a treatment works under tightly controlled conditions, often in randomized clinical trials.

What is efficacy research?
200

Released in 2005, this APA Presidential Task Force offered guidance in this area of intervention research.

What is evidence based practice in psychology?

200

No strings attached! Carl Rogers implements this technique, which sees the good in one's client regardless of their values or actions.

What is unconditional positive regard?

300
Anna Freud coined the name of this conflict, arising from the desires of the Id manifesting as inappropriate defense mechanisms.
What is ego psychology conflict?
300

This defined the second wave approaches.

What are cognitive processes integrated with behavioral techniques?

300

Best available research considers these two factors when studying EBPs.

What are treatment efficacy and clinical utility?

300

These three ingredients of therapy may need cultural fine-tuning: the how, the who, and the what.

What are the approach to delivery, the therapeutic relationship, and specific treatment components?

300

The future is female! These are a few ways therapists incorporate a feminist orientation to their practice. 

What is embracing diversity, analyzing oppression, and asserting the damaging nature of misogyny and other inequalities.

400

Life is a highway: This model is comprised of two "drives." Repressing one is theorized as a cause of anxiety and depression.

What is the energic model?

400

Approaches developed as a result of the limitations of CBT.

What are 3rd wave approaches/ACT, DBT, MBCT? 

400

When treatments leave the world of academia and face the messy realities of clinics, costs, and diverse clients, you’re measuring this.

What is effectiveness?

400

You do this by tweaking evidence-based treatments to fit the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of a specific cultural group.

What is creating culturally adapted treatments?

400

These are the four key elements of motivational interviewing. 

1. Express empathy

2. Develop discrepancy

3. Roll with resistance

4. Support self-efficacy

500

Named after this King with the mythical "golden touch," this playful technique allows a client to see their own logical flaws.

What is the Midas technique?

500

In this theory, dysfunction comes from a split between the imagined and real self/others; change happens when clients strengthen their inner world so good and bad can coexist in whole people.

What is Melanie Klein's object-relations theory?

500

ESTs left the spotlight in favor of EBPPs for this reason--similarly, these are the three unique components of EBPs.

What is, RCTs only show efficacy in lab conditions and and not overall, and best available research, clinical expertise, and patient values and experiences?

500

Skill-building for cultural knowledge goes by this name, while respect and other-orientation go by this one.

What are cultural competence and cultural humility?

500

These are the 5 reasons case conceptualization is important. 

1. Offer a framework for treatment, organize information

2. A roadmat to treatment interventions.

3. Increase therapist understanding of client.

4. Explain past behaviors and predict future ones.

5. Help the therapist manage difficulties in therapy as they arise.