Maryville NURS 661 EXAM 2
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS|
Main goals of Person-Centered Therapy
- The patient to become a fully functioning person engaged in the process of self-actualization.
- The patient to achieve greater independence
- To decrease the client's guilt, insecurities, defensiveness, and closed-mindedness
- To let the patient tell their story
-To have a greater understanding of oneself
- improve self-esteem
- Enhance openness
- Facilitate growth and development
- Eliminate feelings of distree
Role of the Person-Centered Therapist
To facilitate the patient to resolve their own problems in a non-directive manner and help the
patient clarify their feelings.
Main goals of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Teach patient to confront faulty beliefs with contradictory evidence
- Help patient seek out their faulty beliefs and minimize them
- To become aware of automatic thoughts and to change them
- To assist patients in identifying their inner strengths and to explore the kind of life they want
- Change thoughts and behaviors through cognitive restructuring
The basic techniques used in a Person-Centered Group
Listening and understanding
3 core conditions needed for growth promoting climate in Person-Centered Therapy
, - Congruence
- Unconditional positive regard
- Empathy
Gestalt Therapy
- Working through interpersonal or internal conflict
- Here and now focus that allows patients to bring unfinished business to the present.
- Awareness, choice and responsibilities are cornerstones to practice
Goal of Gestalt Therapy
For patient to gain awareness of what they are experiencing and doing now. Promotes direct
experiencing rather than the abstractness of talking about situations.
The Empty Chair technique
- Used to complete unfinished business
- Help others see from another perspective and to gain insight into feelings and behaviors
- Put the person in an empty chair and talk to them.
Boundary Disturbances / Resistance to Contact
- The defenses we develop to prevent us from experiencing the present fully.
5 Major channels of resistance
- Introjection
- Projection
- Retroflection
- Confluence
- Defelction
Introjection
A person internalizes the idea or beliefs of other people. To critically accept other's beliefs and
standards without discriminating what belongs to self and eliminating what does not. "Be a
good girl." "Boys don't cry."
Projection
To disown certain unacceptable aspects of self by ascribing them to other people or the
environment.
Retroflection
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS|
Main goals of Person-Centered Therapy
- The patient to become a fully functioning person engaged in the process of self-actualization.
- The patient to achieve greater independence
- To decrease the client's guilt, insecurities, defensiveness, and closed-mindedness
- To let the patient tell their story
-To have a greater understanding of oneself
- improve self-esteem
- Enhance openness
- Facilitate growth and development
- Eliminate feelings of distree
Role of the Person-Centered Therapist
To facilitate the patient to resolve their own problems in a non-directive manner and help the
patient clarify their feelings.
Main goals of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Teach patient to confront faulty beliefs with contradictory evidence
- Help patient seek out their faulty beliefs and minimize them
- To become aware of automatic thoughts and to change them
- To assist patients in identifying their inner strengths and to explore the kind of life they want
- Change thoughts and behaviors through cognitive restructuring
The basic techniques used in a Person-Centered Group
Listening and understanding
3 core conditions needed for growth promoting climate in Person-Centered Therapy
, - Congruence
- Unconditional positive regard
- Empathy
Gestalt Therapy
- Working through interpersonal or internal conflict
- Here and now focus that allows patients to bring unfinished business to the present.
- Awareness, choice and responsibilities are cornerstones to practice
Goal of Gestalt Therapy
For patient to gain awareness of what they are experiencing and doing now. Promotes direct
experiencing rather than the abstractness of talking about situations.
The Empty Chair technique
- Used to complete unfinished business
- Help others see from another perspective and to gain insight into feelings and behaviors
- Put the person in an empty chair and talk to them.
Boundary Disturbances / Resistance to Contact
- The defenses we develop to prevent us from experiencing the present fully.
5 Major channels of resistance
- Introjection
- Projection
- Retroflection
- Confluence
- Defelction
Introjection
A person internalizes the idea or beliefs of other people. To critically accept other's beliefs and
standards without discriminating what belongs to self and eliminating what does not. "Be a
good girl." "Boys don't cry."
Projection
To disown certain unacceptable aspects of self by ascribing them to other people or the
environment.
Retroflection
