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Brief psychotherapy:
Past - ANSWER: Analysis of historical events and effects on current symptoms
Brief: focus - ANSWER: -exploring current symptoms, bx and feelings ( unconscious
process)
- client responsible for working through insights.
-transference reaction interpreted but not full blown
Classical/ Freudian psychoanalysis
View maladaptive bx - ANSWER: Unconscious unresolved conflict from childhood
Classical/ Freudian psych: goals - ANSWER: Alleviate symptoms by making
unconscious-- conscious and integrating into personality structure
Classic/ Freudian psychoanalysis: techniques - ANSWER: -Analytic neutrality
-free association ( no censure)
- dream analysis ( free assoc to ID latent content)
- resistance
( avoid anxiety of confronting material ie tardiness/ missed appointments/ avoidance
of topics)
-transference
Ego analysts: view of maladaptive bx - ANSWER: -healthy bx under conscious control
of ego---ego loses autonomy from if or reality--pathology may ensue
Ego analysts - ANSWER: Anna Freud/ Heinz Hartmann/ Ernest kris/ David Rapapart
and Eric Erikson
Classical/ Freudian psychoanalysis : underlying assumption - ANSWER: All bx are
meaningful and serve some psych function, Freudian slips( unconscious motives)
Ego analysts: maladaptive bx - ANSWER: Ego loses its autonomy from ID or reality
Ego analysts: goals and techniques - ANSWER: -shares with psychoanalysts
-greater emphasis on present vs past
-neurotic and adaptive aspects of personality
-increase client awareness of and control over events underlying current probs
- reparenting
Object relations theorists - ANSWER: Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbairn, Margaret
Mahler, Otto Kernberg, Heinz Kohut
, Obj- relations: view of maladaptive bx - ANSWER: Result of abnormalities in early obj
rel's
Obj rel: key concept - ANSWER: Projective identification
Obj rel, goals and techs - ANSWER: Support, acceptance and opportunities that
restore an ability to relate to others in meaningful, realistic ways
---mirroring
Neo- Freudians : who - ANSWER: Karen Horney, Harry stack Sullivan ( founder:
interpersonal school), Erich Fromm
Neo- Freudian Therapist role - ANSWER: Participant/observer
Adler's Individual psychology
Maladaptive bx - ANSWER: Mistaken style of life
-maladaptive attempts to compensate for feelings of inferiority
- preoccupation with achieving power
- lack of social interest
Adlerian goals and techniques - ANSWER: -est collaborative relationship
- help ID and understand his style of life and it's consequences.
-reorienting beliefs and goals to support more adaptive lifestyle
Adlerian techniques - ANSWER: Lifestyle Investigation:
-family constellation
-fictional ( hidden) goals
-"basic mistakes" ( distorted beliefs and attitudes
-earliest memories
Adlerian basic belief - ANSWER: Lifestyles basically fixed by age 6
Adlerian: technique - ANSWER: Study of dreams
- rehearsal of future courses of action
-source of info about a clients lifestyle and progress in therapy
Adlerian resistance and transference - ANSWER: Reflections of style of life
- interpretations help client understand purpose of feelings and bx
Adlerian- acting as if - ANSWER: If client says " if only I could..." Therapist has them
role role play bx described
Adlerian: paradoxical intention - ANSWER: Make use of resistance by asking client to
pay closer attention and exaggerate undesirable thoughts and bx's
Adlerian see client as discouraged vs sick - ANSWER: - primary role is encouragement
- advise suggesting alt courses of action to choose from
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Brief psychotherapy:
Past - ANSWER: Analysis of historical events and effects on current symptoms
Brief: focus - ANSWER: -exploring current symptoms, bx and feelings ( unconscious
process)
- client responsible for working through insights.
-transference reaction interpreted but not full blown
Classical/ Freudian psychoanalysis
View maladaptive bx - ANSWER: Unconscious unresolved conflict from childhood
Classical/ Freudian psych: goals - ANSWER: Alleviate symptoms by making
unconscious-- conscious and integrating into personality structure
Classic/ Freudian psychoanalysis: techniques - ANSWER: -Analytic neutrality
-free association ( no censure)
- dream analysis ( free assoc to ID latent content)
- resistance
( avoid anxiety of confronting material ie tardiness/ missed appointments/ avoidance
of topics)
-transference
Ego analysts: view of maladaptive bx - ANSWER: -healthy bx under conscious control
of ego---ego loses autonomy from if or reality--pathology may ensue
Ego analysts - ANSWER: Anna Freud/ Heinz Hartmann/ Ernest kris/ David Rapapart
and Eric Erikson
Classical/ Freudian psychoanalysis : underlying assumption - ANSWER: All bx are
meaningful and serve some psych function, Freudian slips( unconscious motives)
Ego analysts: maladaptive bx - ANSWER: Ego loses its autonomy from ID or reality
Ego analysts: goals and techniques - ANSWER: -shares with psychoanalysts
-greater emphasis on present vs past
-neurotic and adaptive aspects of personality
-increase client awareness of and control over events underlying current probs
- reparenting
Object relations theorists - ANSWER: Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbairn, Margaret
Mahler, Otto Kernberg, Heinz Kohut
, Obj- relations: view of maladaptive bx - ANSWER: Result of abnormalities in early obj
rel's
Obj rel: key concept - ANSWER: Projective identification
Obj rel, goals and techs - ANSWER: Support, acceptance and opportunities that
restore an ability to relate to others in meaningful, realistic ways
---mirroring
Neo- Freudians : who - ANSWER: Karen Horney, Harry stack Sullivan ( founder:
interpersonal school), Erich Fromm
Neo- Freudian Therapist role - ANSWER: Participant/observer
Adler's Individual psychology
Maladaptive bx - ANSWER: Mistaken style of life
-maladaptive attempts to compensate for feelings of inferiority
- preoccupation with achieving power
- lack of social interest
Adlerian goals and techniques - ANSWER: -est collaborative relationship
- help ID and understand his style of life and it's consequences.
-reorienting beliefs and goals to support more adaptive lifestyle
Adlerian techniques - ANSWER: Lifestyle Investigation:
-family constellation
-fictional ( hidden) goals
-"basic mistakes" ( distorted beliefs and attitudes
-earliest memories
Adlerian basic belief - ANSWER: Lifestyles basically fixed by age 6
Adlerian: technique - ANSWER: Study of dreams
- rehearsal of future courses of action
-source of info about a clients lifestyle and progress in therapy
Adlerian resistance and transference - ANSWER: Reflections of style of life
- interpretations help client understand purpose of feelings and bx
Adlerian- acting as if - ANSWER: If client says " if only I could..." Therapist has them
role role play bx described
Adlerian: paradoxical intention - ANSWER: Make use of resistance by asking client to
pay closer attention and exaggerate undesirable thoughts and bx's
Adlerian see client as discouraged vs sick - ANSWER: - primary role is encouragement
- advise suggesting alt courses of action to choose from
