EPPP Clinical Psychology (PrepJet) quizes
4 steps in Psychoanalysis - 1. Confrontation: Help clients see their behaviors that
have been hidden from them and their possible causes.
2. Clarification: Bring those behaviors into sharper focus by honing in on the most
important details.
3. Interpretation: Directly connecting conscious behaviors to unconscious
processes
4. Working through: results from repeatedly interpreting and having catharsis,
leads to a gradual process where people gain new insights.
Adler's Individual Psychology - We are motivated by our goals in life rather than by
unconscious forces. We are also motivated by feelings of inferiority which leads to
striving for superiority
Style of Life (Adler) - specific ways person compensates for inferiority & to achieve
superiority
object constancy - the development of mental representations (introjects) of the
self and objects that allow the individual to value an object for reasons other than
its ability to satisfy the individual's needs.
3 Stages of Object Constancy - 1. Normal Autistic stage: happens in the first few
weeks of life, infants are totally unaware of their external environment.
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2. Normal Symbiotic Stage: Infants become aware of external environment but
cant differentiate (separate) themselves from their caregiver
3. Separation individuation: begins at 5 months and continues until the child is 3
years old. Consists of 4 substages where object constancy gradually develops
a. Differentiation
b. Practicing
c. Rapproachment
d. Beginning of object constancy
Gestalt Therapy - People are motivated by maintain homeostasis, which is
disrupted by unmet needs. They seek to obtain something from the environment
to meet those needs. Maladjustment results from boundary disturbances.
Gestalt boundary disturbances - 1. Introjection (swallowing up): People adopt
others perspectives and beliefs without questioning them.
2. Projection: People project out undesirable things onto other people
3. Retroflection: people do to themselves what they want to do to others, like
cutting.
4. Deflection: People avoid contact with the environment
5. Confluence: When people blur the distinction between themselves and others.
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Gestalt Therapy techniques - All about gaining AWARENESS. Empty chair
technique, dreamwork, or to resolved "unfinished business" with a significant
person in their life. Help them distinguish between their. Help them distinguish
between transference fantasy vs. reality.
Existensial Therapy 4 areas of disturbance - § Death
§ Freedom
§ Isolation
§ Meaningless
Two Types of Anxiety (existential Therapy) - 1) Normal (existential anxiety) related
to legitimate objective threats. Does NOT involve repression And 2) Neurotic
anxiety, disproportionate, involves repression. Neurotic anxiety keeps people from
reaching their full potential
Reality Therapy (Glasser)- 5 basic needs - Based on Choice theory. People have 5
basic innate needs. How they meet these needs determines if they have a success
or failure identity
Wubboldings WDEP system - Strategy for getting someone to adopt a success
identity. Ask about
Wants and Needs
See what they are Doing to foster awareness of behaviors
Encourage clients to Evaluate his/her own behaviors, and
Help them create a Plan of action
Seligmann's PERMA model - describes the 5 essential elements of well-being
(positive psychology)
Positive Emotions: experiencing pleasure, hope, gratitude, love and other positive
emotions
Engagement: Refers to being truly engaged, characterized by Flow- total
Relationships
Meaning: being dedicated to a cause bigger than oneself
Accomplishment-achievement
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