NCE Helping Relationships
1. Focus on clients' perception of event rather than event itself: Phenomenol-ogy
2. Victor Frankl and Rollo May - explore questions of life's meaning - peoplehave free will,
so encourage responsibility: Existential Therapy
3. Victor Frankl - focus on search for meaning to avoid existential vacuum: -
Logotherapy
4. Prescribe the symptom - ex. client says she can't stop crying, tell her to cryall day:
Paradoxical Intention
5. Fritz Perls - therapy that focuses on the whole person including mind andbody: Gestalt
Therapy
6. Gestalt term - people seek to maintain a state of balance- when can't doso, leads to
neurosis: Homeostasis
7. Gestalt - the past that remains in the present: Unfinished Business
8. What kind of techniques are these: here and now, psychodrama, emptychair: Gestalt
9. White and Epston - help clients rewrite their self-narratives, make them thick instead of
thin, externalize problems, seek unique outcomes, use outsidewitnesses for perspective, have
definitional ceremonies, write therapeutic letters to clients: Narrative Therapy
10. deShazer - client is expert, therapist is collaborator, focus on baby steps, categorize clients
as visitors, complainants, and customers: Solution-FocusedBrief Therapy
11. What kind of techniques are these: Exception question (when was problemnot present),
miracle question, scaling question (how close are you to solvingproblem on scale of 1 to 10),
positive blame (reinforce attempts to solve prob-lem), skeleton keys (techniques with universal
application): Solution-FocusedBrief Therapy
12. Look at relationships between family members instead of individual per- sonalities - there
is circular causality, not cause and effect; Bertalanffy: Sys-tems Theory
13. people are affected by family of origin and need to differentiate self from family, parents
can project anxiety onto children, techniques include
genograms, back home visits, detriangulation; intergenerational: Bowen Fam-ily Systems
Therapy
14. Carl Whitaker - find balance between togetherness and independence,search for hidden
symbols;: Symbolic-Experiential Family Therapy
15. Virginia Satir - focus on communication styles within families - placaters, blamers,
intellectualizers, distracters - try to change these to congruent com- municators: Human
Validation Process Model (Conjoint Therapy)
16. Milton Erickson - focus on changing behavior - quid pro quo (this for that),redundancy
, principle (interact with others same as always), symmetrical vs. complementary relationships,
ordeal: Strategic Family Therapy
17. Focus on family members' perceptions of each other, long brief therapy (once a month for
a year), counselors work in teams, counter paradox (don'tchange too quickly): Milan Family
Therapy
18. What kind of techniques are these: Circular questioning ("who fights more,sister or
brother"), hypothesizing, neutrality, ritual prescription (paradoxical assignments): Milan
19. Minuchin - looks at organization of family including subsystems and boundaries -
techniques include structural maps, enactment, restructuring,unbalancing: Structural Family
Therapy
20. Thorne - use a variety of techniques: Eclectic Therapy
21. Randomly using lots of techniques without considering how they will worktogether:
Syncretism
22. Lazarus - assess client in 7 domains - BASIC ID - bridging (figure out which domain client
operates from and use that first) - firing sequence (what is chain of events in a stressor):
Multimodal Therapy
23. Shapiro - good for trauma, PTSD, and unprocessed memories - use bilat- eral stimulation
of brain to process memories: EMDR
24. Wellness model based on Adler's theory, has 17 wellness dimensions: Indi-visible Self
25. Most important predictor of therapy success: Therapeutic Alliance
26. Way to control anxiety (Freud), noncompliance with homework, negativesocial influence
- these are all causes of what in therapy?: Resistance
27. Openness ConscientiousnessExtraversion Agreeableness
Neuroticism OCEAN: Big Five
28. Client applies feelings about someone else to the therapist: Transference
29. Help resolve conflict to lead to more independent ego; neo-Freudian; egomore important
than id; Erikson: Ego Psychology
30. Henry Stack Sullivan - focus on current interactions and relationships;neo-Freudian; less
emphasis on past: Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
31. Personality is developed through early parent-child interaction - may en- counter
splitting, seeing people in all or nothing terms - modern psychody- namic theory: Object
Relations Theory
32. Term coined by Adler, feeling that you're not as good as others: InferiorityComplex
33. Adler - believed personality influenced by number and order of siblings: -
1. Focus on clients' perception of event rather than event itself: Phenomenol-ogy
2. Victor Frankl and Rollo May - explore questions of life's meaning - peoplehave free will,
so encourage responsibility: Existential Therapy
3. Victor Frankl - focus on search for meaning to avoid existential vacuum: -
Logotherapy
4. Prescribe the symptom - ex. client says she can't stop crying, tell her to cryall day:
Paradoxical Intention
5. Fritz Perls - therapy that focuses on the whole person including mind andbody: Gestalt
Therapy
6. Gestalt term - people seek to maintain a state of balance- when can't doso, leads to
neurosis: Homeostasis
7. Gestalt - the past that remains in the present: Unfinished Business
8. What kind of techniques are these: here and now, psychodrama, emptychair: Gestalt
9. White and Epston - help clients rewrite their self-narratives, make them thick instead of
thin, externalize problems, seek unique outcomes, use outsidewitnesses for perspective, have
definitional ceremonies, write therapeutic letters to clients: Narrative Therapy
10. deShazer - client is expert, therapist is collaborator, focus on baby steps, categorize clients
as visitors, complainants, and customers: Solution-FocusedBrief Therapy
11. What kind of techniques are these: Exception question (when was problemnot present),
miracle question, scaling question (how close are you to solvingproblem on scale of 1 to 10),
positive blame (reinforce attempts to solve prob-lem), skeleton keys (techniques with universal
application): Solution-FocusedBrief Therapy
12. Look at relationships between family members instead of individual per- sonalities - there
is circular causality, not cause and effect; Bertalanffy: Sys-tems Theory
13. people are affected by family of origin and need to differentiate self from family, parents
can project anxiety onto children, techniques include
genograms, back home visits, detriangulation; intergenerational: Bowen Fam-ily Systems
Therapy
14. Carl Whitaker - find balance between togetherness and independence,search for hidden
symbols;: Symbolic-Experiential Family Therapy
15. Virginia Satir - focus on communication styles within families - placaters, blamers,
intellectualizers, distracters - try to change these to congruent com- municators: Human
Validation Process Model (Conjoint Therapy)
16. Milton Erickson - focus on changing behavior - quid pro quo (this for that),redundancy
, principle (interact with others same as always), symmetrical vs. complementary relationships,
ordeal: Strategic Family Therapy
17. Focus on family members' perceptions of each other, long brief therapy (once a month for
a year), counselors work in teams, counter paradox (don'tchange too quickly): Milan Family
Therapy
18. What kind of techniques are these: Circular questioning ("who fights more,sister or
brother"), hypothesizing, neutrality, ritual prescription (paradoxical assignments): Milan
19. Minuchin - looks at organization of family including subsystems and boundaries -
techniques include structural maps, enactment, restructuring,unbalancing: Structural Family
Therapy
20. Thorne - use a variety of techniques: Eclectic Therapy
21. Randomly using lots of techniques without considering how they will worktogether:
Syncretism
22. Lazarus - assess client in 7 domains - BASIC ID - bridging (figure out which domain client
operates from and use that first) - firing sequence (what is chain of events in a stressor):
Multimodal Therapy
23. Shapiro - good for trauma, PTSD, and unprocessed memories - use bilat- eral stimulation
of brain to process memories: EMDR
24. Wellness model based on Adler's theory, has 17 wellness dimensions: Indi-visible Self
25. Most important predictor of therapy success: Therapeutic Alliance
26. Way to control anxiety (Freud), noncompliance with homework, negativesocial influence
- these are all causes of what in therapy?: Resistance
27. Openness ConscientiousnessExtraversion Agreeableness
Neuroticism OCEAN: Big Five
28. Client applies feelings about someone else to the therapist: Transference
29. Help resolve conflict to lead to more independent ego; neo-Freudian; egomore important
than id; Erikson: Ego Psychology
30. Henry Stack Sullivan - focus on current interactions and relationships;neo-Freudian; less
emphasis on past: Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
31. Personality is developed through early parent-child interaction - may en- counter
splitting, seeing people in all or nothing terms - modern psychody- namic theory: Object
Relations Theory
32. Term coined by Adler, feeling that you're not as good as others: InferiorityComplex
33. Adler - believed personality influenced by number and order of siblings: -
