Theories of Psychotherapy EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ALL CORRECT ANSWERS
100% SOLVED AND GUARANTEED
SUCCESS!!
Psychotherapy - The talking cure.
A conversation with a therapeutic purpose
Reasons for Studying Theories of Psychotherapy - -develop testable clinical hypotheses
-explain, predict, and change pathological behaviors
-develop a general approach to therapy that can be applied to diverse clients
-Have something to fall back on when we encounter new clients / situations.
-Make clinical decisions
Counseling - The artful application of scientifically derived psychological knowledge and
techniques for the purpose of changing human behavior.
Difference in Psychotherapy and Counseling - Psychotherapy: Less directive, deeper, longer,
more expensive
Counseling: more directive, more normal issues, briefer, cheaper.
Specific techniques - have been found to work with specific disorders and these should be
labeled as evidence based or empirically supported.
, Common Factors - account for most of the positive changes that occur in therapy.
Lambert's Common Factors Model - -extra therapeutic factors (severity, Client motivation)
-Therapeutic Relationship (Positive interpersonal bond, Shared therapy goals, working together
on tasks related to therapy goals)
-Expectancy/hope/placebo
-Specific techniques
Four Historical-cultural perspectives - -Religious/spiritual/supernatural
-Biomedical
-psychosocial
-feminist/multicultural
Psychoanalytic Theory - Psychotherapist acts as a blank slate and listens for unconscious
conflicts and motivations that underlie repetitive, maladaptive patterns of behavior; sitting
behind client
Religious/Spiritual/Supernatural - There are spiritual explanations for human distress and
recovery
Biomedical Perspective - Biological, genetic, and/or physiological factors cause mental health
problems
Psychosocial perspective - verbal and relational interactions change thoughts, mood, and
behaviors.
Feminist/Multicultural Perspective - mental disorders are caused by social and cultural
oppression.
QUESTIONS AND ALL CORRECT ANSWERS
100% SOLVED AND GUARANTEED
SUCCESS!!
Psychotherapy - The talking cure.
A conversation with a therapeutic purpose
Reasons for Studying Theories of Psychotherapy - -develop testable clinical hypotheses
-explain, predict, and change pathological behaviors
-develop a general approach to therapy that can be applied to diverse clients
-Have something to fall back on when we encounter new clients / situations.
-Make clinical decisions
Counseling - The artful application of scientifically derived psychological knowledge and
techniques for the purpose of changing human behavior.
Difference in Psychotherapy and Counseling - Psychotherapy: Less directive, deeper, longer,
more expensive
Counseling: more directive, more normal issues, briefer, cheaper.
Specific techniques - have been found to work with specific disorders and these should be
labeled as evidence based or empirically supported.
, Common Factors - account for most of the positive changes that occur in therapy.
Lambert's Common Factors Model - -extra therapeutic factors (severity, Client motivation)
-Therapeutic Relationship (Positive interpersonal bond, Shared therapy goals, working together
on tasks related to therapy goals)
-Expectancy/hope/placebo
-Specific techniques
Four Historical-cultural perspectives - -Religious/spiritual/supernatural
-Biomedical
-psychosocial
-feminist/multicultural
Psychoanalytic Theory - Psychotherapist acts as a blank slate and listens for unconscious
conflicts and motivations that underlie repetitive, maladaptive patterns of behavior; sitting
behind client
Religious/Spiritual/Supernatural - There are spiritual explanations for human distress and
recovery
Biomedical Perspective - Biological, genetic, and/or physiological factors cause mental health
problems
Psychosocial perspective - verbal and relational interactions change thoughts, mood, and
behaviors.
Feminist/Multicultural Perspective - mental disorders are caused by social and cultural
oppression.
