CMN 548 MODULE 3 WITH 80+ QUESTIONS &
CORRECT ANSWERS
WHAT IS PSYCHOTHERAPY? - ANSWER-•A process of therapeutic
engagement
•A therapy meant to alleviate suffering and grief, help relieve existing symptoms
•A growth experience encouraged through a structured method and therapeutic
relationship
•A method to regain equilibrium and achieve improved methods of coping and
adaptation to life
•A complex interpersonal and intrapersonal phenomenon that fosters improved
social relationships and social support
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 experiences and
memories are rooted in each of us in some particular way
•Speaks of the anima (the unconscious feminine component in every man) and the
animus (the unconscious masculine component in every woman) and how these are
played out in both health and pathology
Who is the father of behaviorism? - ANSWER-Watson
Classical Conditioning (Pavlov) - ANSWER-•experiments on feeding dogs at
certain times with use of a bell ahead of time induced salivation
•Operant Conditioning (B.F. Skinner) - ANSWER-the "Skinner Box" used to train
rats to eat by use of reward of hitting a lever; this led to principles of reinforcement
and punishment
CORRECT ANSWERS
WHAT IS PSYCHOTHERAPY? - ANSWER-•A process of therapeutic
engagement
•A therapy meant to alleviate suffering and grief, help relieve existing symptoms
•A growth experience encouraged through a structured method and therapeutic
relationship
•A method to regain equilibrium and achieve improved methods of coping and
adaptation to life
•A complex interpersonal and intrapersonal phenomenon that fosters improved
social relationships and social support
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 experiences and
memories are rooted in each of us in some particular way
•Speaks of the anima (the unconscious feminine component in every man) and the
animus (the unconscious masculine component in every woman) and how these are
played out in both health and pathology
Who is the father of behaviorism? - ANSWER-Watson
Classical Conditioning (Pavlov) - ANSWER-•experiments on feeding dogs at
certain times with use of a bell ahead of time induced salivation
•Operant Conditioning (B.F. Skinner) - ANSWER-the "Skinner Box" used to train
rats to eat by use of reward of hitting a lever; this led to principles of reinforcement
and punishment
