CMN 548 FINAL EXAM STUDY QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2025 2026 UPDATE 100
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SOUTH ALABAMA COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥What are some examples for different types of psychotherapy?
Answer: •Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic (such as Freudian, Jungian,
Rogerian)
•Behavioral
•Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
and subsequent derivatives, such as Eye Movement Desensitization &
Reprocessing
•Biofeedback
•Humanistic
•Supportive Psychotherapy
•Play Therapy for children (various derivatives from the models
mentioned above)
⩥What are Freud's stages of psychosexual development? Answer: Oral,
Anal, Oedipal, Latency, Genital
,•A psychosexual theory based on these stages and emphasizing the
interaction of the Id (basic impulses/instincts), Superego (moral force
within) and Ego (the balancing force between the Ego and Superego)
⩥What is psychoanalysis? Answer: •Use of the couch for therapy so that
the therapist can engage in "free association" without the interference of
looking at the analyst; sessions usually 3-4 days per week, from 3-5
years or more
⩥What is the psychodynamic approach? Answer: •Usually 1-2 times
weekly, no couch, considered a potent tool of treatment, but not as
"comprehensive" as a formal analysis, length of therapy may vary from
brief to long-term
⩥What is transference? Answer: what the patient projects onto the
analyst from their unresolved past experiences
⩥What is countertransference? Answer: what the analyst projects onto
the patient
⩥Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training: Answer: usually a two year
course of study post-graduate, for those who would like to practice
psychotherapy under this model
, ⩥Psychoanalytic Training: Answer: a four-year course of post-graduate
study which also includes completion of a personal psychoanalysis and
successful analysis of at least two patients under supervision
⩥GOALS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Answer: •To produce a
fundamental change in character
•The uncovering of unconscious conflicts
•To induce behavioral change motivated by new insights
•To correct developmental fixations and create more adult responses to
situations that occur
•Freud: "To be able to love and to work."
⩥Fundamental tools for psychoanalysis: Answer: •Fundamental tools
include: (1) Acceptance of the patient for who they are, (2)
Understandingconscious and unconscious contributions to the person's
character, and (3) Interpretation of behaviors and thoughts based on # 2
⩥JUNGIAN ANALYSIS Answer: De-emphasizes psychosexual
development
•Talks about two psychological types: The Introvert and the Extrovert
•Places an emphasis on the "Collective Unconscious": that unconscious
part of us that is inherited from many many generations past, whose
AND ANSWERS 2025 2026 UPDATE 100
PERCENT CORRECT UNIVERSITY OF
SOUTH ALABAMA COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥What are some examples for different types of psychotherapy?
Answer: •Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic (such as Freudian, Jungian,
Rogerian)
•Behavioral
•Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
and subsequent derivatives, such as Eye Movement Desensitization &
Reprocessing
•Biofeedback
•Humanistic
•Supportive Psychotherapy
•Play Therapy for children (various derivatives from the models
mentioned above)
⩥What are Freud's stages of psychosexual development? Answer: Oral,
Anal, Oedipal, Latency, Genital
,•A psychosexual theory based on these stages and emphasizing the
interaction of the Id (basic impulses/instincts), Superego (moral force
within) and Ego (the balancing force between the Ego and Superego)
⩥What is psychoanalysis? Answer: •Use of the couch for therapy so that
the therapist can engage in "free association" without the interference of
looking at the analyst; sessions usually 3-4 days per week, from 3-5
years or more
⩥What is the psychodynamic approach? Answer: •Usually 1-2 times
weekly, no couch, considered a potent tool of treatment, but not as
"comprehensive" as a formal analysis, length of therapy may vary from
brief to long-term
⩥What is transference? Answer: what the patient projects onto the
analyst from their unresolved past experiences
⩥What is countertransference? Answer: what the analyst projects onto
the patient
⩥Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training: Answer: usually a two year
course of study post-graduate, for those who would like to practice
psychotherapy under this model
, ⩥Psychoanalytic Training: Answer: a four-year course of post-graduate
study which also includes completion of a personal psychoanalysis and
successful analysis of at least two patients under supervision
⩥GOALS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Answer: •To produce a
fundamental change in character
•The uncovering of unconscious conflicts
•To induce behavioral change motivated by new insights
•To correct developmental fixations and create more adult responses to
situations that occur
•Freud: "To be able to love and to work."
⩥Fundamental tools for psychoanalysis: Answer: •Fundamental tools
include: (1) Acceptance of the patient for who they are, (2)
Understandingconscious and unconscious contributions to the person's
character, and (3) Interpretation of behaviors and thoughts based on # 2
⩥JUNGIAN ANALYSIS Answer: De-emphasizes psychosexual
development
•Talks about two psychological types: The Introvert and the Extrovert
•Places an emphasis on the "Collective Unconscious": that unconscious
part of us that is inherited from many many generations past, whose
