PMHNP ANCC EXAMS 2024/2025
Psychoanalytic theory - ✔✔Oral , anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages
PsychoDYNAMIC or Individual: Adler - ✔✔Recognized inferiority as driving force; strive for superiority;
motivation is through social relatedness
PsychoDYNAMIC or Individual Theory: Adler - ✔✔Assume responsibility for growth
Live a purposeful life
Consciousness raising
Intrapersonal conflicts
Birth Order
Existential: Frankl, May, Yalom - ✔✔Stresses human EXISTENCE, choice, freedom and
responsibility:Logotherapy: therapy through meaning
Person-centered: Carl Rogers: personality theory and psychotherapy - ✔✔UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE
REGARD, relationship
genuineness, accurate empathy, self-actualization
Humanistic Psychology and Heirarchy of Needs - ✔✔Abraham Maslow
Person-centered - ✔✔Carl Rogers
the conscious mind; the unconscious mind; conflict model between conscious and unconscious forces
WHAT therapist? - ✔✔Freud
, Fritz Perls - ✔✔GESTALT Theorist
Gestalt - ✔✔the process of forming wholeness Here and Now
Empty Chair Technique
Fritz Perls
"You do your thing, Ill do mine"
Operant Conditioning - ✔✔behaviors are influenced by their consequences. for example punishment.
Skinner theorist
Cognitive: Albert Ellis - ✔✔Irrational beliefs that occur in response to some triggering event that leads
to negative emotions, anxiety or depression "cognitive distortions"
REBT and confrontation
Cognitive: BECK - ✔✔Must, should, ought to ...Catastrophizing, over generalizing, dichotomous
thinking. IE panic attack "I'm having a heart attack."
Guided collaboration on cognitive distortions.
Interpersonal therapy - ✔✔Klerman and Weissman, Peplau Stack-sullivan
IP therapy - ✔✔quality of attachment in early life bears on quality of IP relationships later.
IP therapy - Peplau - ✔✔psy disorders occur in IP context with IP losses, disputes, transitions, deficits;
based on Harry Stack Sullivan and A. Meyer plus Attachment Theory of Bowlby
Interpersonal Therapy - ✔✔the quality of attachment in early life bears on the quality of IP
relationships later.
Psychoanalytic theory - ✔✔Oral , anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages
PsychoDYNAMIC or Individual: Adler - ✔✔Recognized inferiority as driving force; strive for superiority;
motivation is through social relatedness
PsychoDYNAMIC or Individual Theory: Adler - ✔✔Assume responsibility for growth
Live a purposeful life
Consciousness raising
Intrapersonal conflicts
Birth Order
Existential: Frankl, May, Yalom - ✔✔Stresses human EXISTENCE, choice, freedom and
responsibility:Logotherapy: therapy through meaning
Person-centered: Carl Rogers: personality theory and psychotherapy - ✔✔UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE
REGARD, relationship
genuineness, accurate empathy, self-actualization
Humanistic Psychology and Heirarchy of Needs - ✔✔Abraham Maslow
Person-centered - ✔✔Carl Rogers
the conscious mind; the unconscious mind; conflict model between conscious and unconscious forces
WHAT therapist? - ✔✔Freud
, Fritz Perls - ✔✔GESTALT Theorist
Gestalt - ✔✔the process of forming wholeness Here and Now
Empty Chair Technique
Fritz Perls
"You do your thing, Ill do mine"
Operant Conditioning - ✔✔behaviors are influenced by their consequences. for example punishment.
Skinner theorist
Cognitive: Albert Ellis - ✔✔Irrational beliefs that occur in response to some triggering event that leads
to negative emotions, anxiety or depression "cognitive distortions"
REBT and confrontation
Cognitive: BECK - ✔✔Must, should, ought to ...Catastrophizing, over generalizing, dichotomous
thinking. IE panic attack "I'm having a heart attack."
Guided collaboration on cognitive distortions.
Interpersonal therapy - ✔✔Klerman and Weissman, Peplau Stack-sullivan
IP therapy - ✔✔quality of attachment in early life bears on quality of IP relationships later.
IP therapy - Peplau - ✔✔psy disorders occur in IP context with IP losses, disputes, transitions, deficits;
based on Harry Stack Sullivan and A. Meyer plus Attachment Theory of Bowlby
Interpersonal Therapy - ✔✔the quality of attachment in early life bears on the quality of IP
relationships later.
