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Helps families discontinue reciprocal interactions in which symptomatic behavior recurs -
correct answer ✔✔Strategic Family Therapy
Helps families understand what the rules and roles are for each family member and how the
rules were created - correct answer ✔✔Structural Family Therapy
Helps children develop and strengthen the bonds that exist between them so that they can
provide one another needed support - correct answer ✔✔Sibling Therapy
Provides multiple families with mutual understanding and allows them to exchange ideas, role
play, and enact psychodramas - correct answer ✔✔Multifamily therapy
Reality that mediates between the Id and the SuperEgo (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Ego
Primitive, selfish aspect of personality; Pleasure seeking (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Id
Conscience; Morality; Provides motivational instincts (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Super Ego
Comprised of the sexual and ego drives found in the id, libido affects aggression and instinctual
behaviors (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Libido
When the superego imposes guilt on the ego to limit the impulses of the id, neurosis results.
Neuroses stem from childhood conflicts that occur when the relationship between the libido
and ego mechanisms becomes unbalanced. (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Neurosis
,Distortions of life experiences in accordance with regressive thinking processes that prevail
during sleep. (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Manifest Latent Dreams
Formed as a composite of recent and distant memories, this is the apparent content of the
dream. Actually, it provides a mask for events that conceal the latent meaning of the dream.
(Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Manifest Content
Underlying thoughts, dreams, and fantasies related to the emotional reactions of early infancy,
latent content gives a dream its fundamental meaning. (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Latent
Content
Process whereby latent content becomes apparent. - correct answer ✔✔Dream Work
Although the individual is unaware of them, these provide protection against negative feelings
associated with painful events. An unconscious process in which the ego attempts to expel
anxiety-provoking sexual and aggressive impulses from consciousness. In themselves they are
not an indication of pathology, but rather an indication of disturbance when their cost
outweighs their protective value.
Examples: Compensation, Denial, Displacement, Projection, Rationalization, Reaction
Formation, Regression, Repression, Sublimation, Suppression, Counter Transference - correct
answer ✔✔Defense Mechanisms
An activity viewed as rewarding is substituted for the one that produces tension; Protection
against feels of inferiority and inadequacy stemming from real or imagined personal defects or
weaknesses. - correct answer ✔✔Compensation
A person refuses to acknowledge a situation that causes anxiety or distress - correct answer
✔✔Denial
,Emotion felt toward an individual or an object is transferred to a similar person or object -
correct answer ✔✔Displacement
An unconscious process whereby unacceptable thoughts and behaviors found within the person
are assigned to another; Ascribing a painful idea or impulse to the external world - correct
answer ✔✔Projection
Giving a behavior a socially acceptable motive; Effort to give a logical explanation for painful
unconscious material to avoid guilt and shame - correct answer ✔✔Rationalization
Behavior opposed to unconscious desires; Replacing in conscious awareness a painful idea or
feeling with is opposite - correct answer ✔✔Reaction Formation
Retreat to an earlier stage of development where the individual feels more comfortable -
correct answer ✔✔Regression
Person forces painful perceptions, constructs, and feelings into unconscious; determinate of all
defense mechanisms
The act of obliterating material from conscious awareness - correct answer ✔✔Repression
Type of reaction formation aimed at protection from painful thoughts/feelings - correct answer
✔✔Reversal
Inappropriate social impulses are channeled into socially acceptable behaviors; Redirecting
energies of instinctual drives to generally positive goals that are more acceptable to the ego and
superego - correct answer ✔✔Sublimation
, A child's introjection of some characteristic of an anxiety provoking object and assimilation of
an anxiety experience just lived through. In this, the child can transform from the threatened
person into the one making the threat. - correct answer ✔✔Identification with the Aggressor
Person undoes various levels of consciousness, preconsciousness, or subconciousness - correct
answer ✔✔Suppression
Irrational reactions therapists have towards their clients; Worker's unconscious redirection of
feelings for another person or relationship toward the client - correct answer ✔✔Counter
Transference
Client's unconscious redirection of feelings for another person toward the worker in an attempt
to resolve conflicts attached with that relationship(s) - correct answer ✔✔Transference
Method for reducing stress in first-responders - correct answer ✔✔Critical Incident Stress
Debriefing (CISD)
Area of cognition that individuals are fully aware of (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Conscious mind
Thoughts and feelings of which individuals may be immediately unaware but can be accessed
easily if desired (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Preconscious mind
Contains thoughts and feelings of which all individuals remain unaware; goal of psychoanalytic
therapy is to address this and its role and influence on the conscious and preconscious mind,
along with the resultant thoughts, emotions, and behaviors - correct answer ✔✔Unconscious
mind
Attachment of mental or emotional ("psychosexual") energy (i.e. feelings and significance) to an
idea, object, image or person. Pain arises from loss. Objective = directed at external world.
Narcissistic = meaning only for the person. - correct answer ✔✔Cathexis
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Helps families discontinue reciprocal interactions in which symptomatic behavior recurs -
correct answer ✔✔Strategic Family Therapy
Helps families understand what the rules and roles are for each family member and how the
rules were created - correct answer ✔✔Structural Family Therapy
Helps children develop and strengthen the bonds that exist between them so that they can
provide one another needed support - correct answer ✔✔Sibling Therapy
Provides multiple families with mutual understanding and allows them to exchange ideas, role
play, and enact psychodramas - correct answer ✔✔Multifamily therapy
Reality that mediates between the Id and the SuperEgo (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Ego
Primitive, selfish aspect of personality; Pleasure seeking (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Id
Conscience; Morality; Provides motivational instincts (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Super Ego
Comprised of the sexual and ego drives found in the id, libido affects aggression and instinctual
behaviors (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Libido
When the superego imposes guilt on the ego to limit the impulses of the id, neurosis results.
Neuroses stem from childhood conflicts that occur when the relationship between the libido
and ego mechanisms becomes unbalanced. (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Neurosis
,Distortions of life experiences in accordance with regressive thinking processes that prevail
during sleep. (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Manifest Latent Dreams
Formed as a composite of recent and distant memories, this is the apparent content of the
dream. Actually, it provides a mask for events that conceal the latent meaning of the dream.
(Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Manifest Content
Underlying thoughts, dreams, and fantasies related to the emotional reactions of early infancy,
latent content gives a dream its fundamental meaning. (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Latent
Content
Process whereby latent content becomes apparent. - correct answer ✔✔Dream Work
Although the individual is unaware of them, these provide protection against negative feelings
associated with painful events. An unconscious process in which the ego attempts to expel
anxiety-provoking sexual and aggressive impulses from consciousness. In themselves they are
not an indication of pathology, but rather an indication of disturbance when their cost
outweighs their protective value.
Examples: Compensation, Denial, Displacement, Projection, Rationalization, Reaction
Formation, Regression, Repression, Sublimation, Suppression, Counter Transference - correct
answer ✔✔Defense Mechanisms
An activity viewed as rewarding is substituted for the one that produces tension; Protection
against feels of inferiority and inadequacy stemming from real or imagined personal defects or
weaknesses. - correct answer ✔✔Compensation
A person refuses to acknowledge a situation that causes anxiety or distress - correct answer
✔✔Denial
,Emotion felt toward an individual or an object is transferred to a similar person or object -
correct answer ✔✔Displacement
An unconscious process whereby unacceptable thoughts and behaviors found within the person
are assigned to another; Ascribing a painful idea or impulse to the external world - correct
answer ✔✔Projection
Giving a behavior a socially acceptable motive; Effort to give a logical explanation for painful
unconscious material to avoid guilt and shame - correct answer ✔✔Rationalization
Behavior opposed to unconscious desires; Replacing in conscious awareness a painful idea or
feeling with is opposite - correct answer ✔✔Reaction Formation
Retreat to an earlier stage of development where the individual feels more comfortable -
correct answer ✔✔Regression
Person forces painful perceptions, constructs, and feelings into unconscious; determinate of all
defense mechanisms
The act of obliterating material from conscious awareness - correct answer ✔✔Repression
Type of reaction formation aimed at protection from painful thoughts/feelings - correct answer
✔✔Reversal
Inappropriate social impulses are channeled into socially acceptable behaviors; Redirecting
energies of instinctual drives to generally positive goals that are more acceptable to the ego and
superego - correct answer ✔✔Sublimation
, A child's introjection of some characteristic of an anxiety provoking object and assimilation of
an anxiety experience just lived through. In this, the child can transform from the threatened
person into the one making the threat. - correct answer ✔✔Identification with the Aggressor
Person undoes various levels of consciousness, preconsciousness, or subconciousness - correct
answer ✔✔Suppression
Irrational reactions therapists have towards their clients; Worker's unconscious redirection of
feelings for another person or relationship toward the client - correct answer ✔✔Counter
Transference
Client's unconscious redirection of feelings for another person toward the worker in an attempt
to resolve conflicts attached with that relationship(s) - correct answer ✔✔Transference
Method for reducing stress in first-responders - correct answer ✔✔Critical Incident Stress
Debriefing (CISD)
Area of cognition that individuals are fully aware of (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Conscious mind
Thoughts and feelings of which individuals may be immediately unaware but can be accessed
easily if desired (Freud) - correct answer ✔✔Preconscious mind
Contains thoughts and feelings of which all individuals remain unaware; goal of psychoanalytic
therapy is to address this and its role and influence on the conscious and preconscious mind,
along with the resultant thoughts, emotions, and behaviors - correct answer ✔✔Unconscious
mind
Attachment of mental or emotional ("psychosexual") energy (i.e. feelings and significance) to an
idea, object, image or person. Pain arises from loss. Objective = directed at external world.
Narcissistic = meaning only for the person. - correct answer ✔✔Cathexis
