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This therapy emphasizes the inherent drive for self-actualization and the belief that individuals are naturally good and capable of change.
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
This concept involves a sense of safety, acceptance, and empathy from the therapist, enabling the client to explore their own experiences.
What is unconditional positive regard?
In this therapy, the therapist encourages the client to focus on their current experience, particularly their body language and immediate feelings, to promote awareness and integration of conflicting parts of the self.
What is Gestalt Therapy?
In this therapy, the therapist provides empathetic understanding and reflects the client's feelings without judgment.
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
This technique used in Behavior Therapy involves the gradual exposure to feared stimuli in a controlled, systematic way.
What is systematic desensitization?
This theory proposes that humans are motivated by feelings of inferiority and the striving for superiority.
What is Adlerian Therapy?
This is a core concept in Family Systems Therapy, describing how family members affect each other’s behavior in patterns of interaction.
What is circular causality?
This process in Family Systems Therapy involves helping clients differentiate their thoughts and feelings from those of their family members to establish healthier boundaries.
What is differentiation of self?
The therapist's role in this therapy is to act as a guide or coach, focusing on identifying and replacing maladaptive behaviors with more adaptive ones.
What is Behavior Therapy?
In Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), this technique helps clients identify patterns of negative thinking, such as overgeneralizing, catastrophizing, or all-or-nothing thinking, and replace them with more balanced, rational thoughts.
What is identifying cognitive distortions?
This therapy believes that human beings are influenced by unconscious drives, often rooted in childhood experiences, and that individuals are determined by past conflicts.
What is Psychoanalytic Therapy?
This term in Cognitive Behavior Therapy refers to the automatic and often negative thoughts that influence emotions and behaviors.
What are cognitive distortions?
This therapy process focuses on empowering clients to rewrite the narrative of their lives, seeing themselves as the authors of their own stories rather than as victims of their circumstances.
What is Narrative Therapy?
In this therapy, the therapist takes a collaborative, non-directive stance, helping the client become aware of their present experience and work through unfinished business.
What is Gestalt Therapy?
In this Gestalt Therapy technique, clients are asked to role-play different parts of themselves or others in a dialogue to bring out unresolved conflicts.
What is the empty chair technique?
According to this therapy, people have the ability to find meaning in their lives and the freedom to choose their actions, even in the face of suffering.
What is Existential Therapy?
This term refers to the learned behaviors that are reinforced or punished and are central to the theory of how individuals acquire maladaptive patterns.
What is operant conditioning?
This core principle of Dialectical Behavior Therapy emphasizes the balance between acceptance and change.
What is dialectics, or the dialectic?
The therapist in this approach works to uncover the unconscious roots of the client’s issues and to help the client make conscious the defense mechanisms that are hindering growth.
What is Psychoanalytic Therapy?
In Adlerian Therapy, this technique is used to understand the influence of early family dynamics, birth order, and life goals by exploring how an individual was positioned within their family system.
What is the Family Constellation technique?
This theory sees people as products of their environment and conditioning, with behavior shaped through reinforcement and punishment.
What is Behavior Therapy?
In Narrative Therapy, this is the idea that problems are separate from the person and can be examined from a distance to enable a new story to be told.
What is externalizing the problem?
This type of therapy includes two main processes, including developing acceptance of unwanted private experiences which are out of personal control & commitment and action toward living a valued life.
What is Acceptance & Commitment Therapy?
In this therapy, the therapist is seen as an active, problem-solving partner who helps the client set specific, concrete goals and develop strategies to achieve them.
What is Solutions-Focused Brief Therapy?
In Solutions-Focused Brief Therapy, this technique asks clients to identify times when the problem was less severe or absent, helping them recognize their strengths and resources to solve their current challenges.
What is the exception question technique?