Clinical For Eppp

Front 1

When the ego can’t give in to the id, defenses are used to?

Back 1

Defenses are used to

prevent conflict from entering consciousness and creating anxiety

Front 2

Displacement

Back 2

DISPLACEMENT

transferring an emotion from the original idea/object to a safer one (e.g., simple phobias)

Front 3

Reaction Formation

Back 3

REACTION FORMATION

replacing unacceptable urges by their opposite.

Typical of obsessive disorders where aggressive impulses are replaced by their opposites

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Projective Identification

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PROJECTIVE IDENTIFICATION

behaving toward the object of projection in such a way that invokes in that person precisely the thoughts, feelings, or bxs projected. Creates a self-fulfilling prophecy that results in the object acting consistent with the projection.

Front 5

Splitting

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SPLITTING

dividing external objects into all good or all bad (e.g., initially a new rx is idealized and then the beloved becomes the eschewed)

Front 6

Primary vs Secondary Process

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PRIMARY process:
unconscious mental process (e.g., dreams, slips of the tongue) characterized by lack of logic, ease of substitution of one idea for another, and immediate energy discharge.

SECONDARY Process:
conscious mental process (function according to reality principle)

Front 7

Signal Anxiety

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SIGNAL ANXIETY
anxiety indicating the breakdown of defense mechanisms and the presence of an impulse that’s seeking expression

Front 8

Define Jung’s concepts:
INTROVERSION
EXTROVERSION
MID-LIFE TRANSITION

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INTROVERSION: a turning inward of the libido

EXTROVERSION: finding pleasure in external things

MID-LIFE TRANSITION: around 40 yo we all turn from the extroversion of youth to the introversion of adulthood.

Front 9

Adler is known for which therapeutic orientation?

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Adler: Individual Psychology

based on how people mistakenly compensate for their inferiority

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Adler’s Masculine Protest

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Masculine Protest
Childhood inferiority complexes provide motivations to grow, dominate, be superior. Inferiority complex may become associated with a body part, termed “organ inferiority”

Front 11

According to Horney, parental indifference, overprotection, or rejection can cause a child to experience anxiety which is defended against by…?

Back 11

..relating to others with
movement towards
movement away
movement against.

healthy individuals use all 3 modes

Front 12

According to existential orientation, what is neurotic anxiety (vs. normal/existential anxiety)?

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NEUROTIC ANX
results when a person tries to evade normal anxiety & manifests as a loss of sense of free will & inability to take responsibility for one’s own life.

Normal Anxiety: proportionate to its cause, doesn’t get repressed, can be used constructively

Front 13

Perls is associated with a _______ theoretical orientation?

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Perls

GESTALT psychology

Front 14

What are
Boundary Disturbances
and what theory of psych are they from?

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BOUNDARY DISTURBANCES
GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY

person’s interactions w environment which determine which part of personality exerts most control resulting in more control by SELF-IMAGE (rather than self). Can be healthy when they’re adaptive, or pathological when they happen outside awareness.

Front 15

Define these different boundary disturbances:
Introjection
Projection
Retroflection
Deflection
Confluence
Isolation

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Introjection: absorbing info without really understanding/assimilating it
Projection: attributing one’s own unacceptable feelings onto others
Retroflection: doing to yourself what you want to do to others.
Deflection: avoidance of contact and/or awareness by being vague, indirect, overly polite
Confluence: when boundary b/w self – environ becomes too thin & person doesn’t experience sense of self… self merges with others’ beliefs, feelings, etc
Isolation: Even more extreme than confluence: awareness of boundary b/w self – environ is non-existent, hence person doesn’t understand the importance of others for the self.

Front 16

What are the 5 basic needs from Glasser’s Reality Therapy?

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Belonging
Freedom
Survival
Power
Fun

Front 17

Berne’s Transactional Therapy defines 3 ego states:
1:
2:
3:

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1: Child
2: Parent
3: Adult

Front 18

What are the 3 steps involved in Stress Innoculation Training?

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1) Cognitive preparation: education about how faulty cognitions prevent appropriate coping
2) Skill Acquisition: e.g., relaxation, self-statements, etc
3) Practice: on a gradual basis

Front 19

What is hypnosis helpful for (6 types of disorders)?

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1) dissociative disorders with fugue states
2) conversion sxs
3) coping with PTSD flashbacks/traumatic memories
4) habit disorders
5) phobic disorders
6) GAD

Front 20

Biofeedback is useful for …?

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1) hypertension
2) tension headaches
3) migraine headaches
4) ulcers
5) fecal incontinence
6) raynaud’s dx

Front 21

What is “Equifinality” in the Systems Theory of Family Therapy?

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Equifinality: no matter what is discussed or how one enters a system, the resulting pattern of bx is the same.

Front 22

What is “Negative Feedback” in Systems Family Therapy?

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Negative Feedback:

Maintenance of family’s status quo by attempting to correct deviations in the status quo.

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What is “Positive Feedback” in Systems Family Therapy?

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Positive Feedback:

Disruption of homeostasis (status quo) by encouraging deviations from the status quo.

Front 24

In Family Therapy, BOWEN is associated with what main ideas?

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BOWEN
EXTENDED FAMILY SYTEMS THERAPY/INTERGENERATIONAL PROCESS
Fusion vs Differentiation
Triangulation
Emotional Cutoff
Genograms

Front 25

What type of family therapy is Minuchin associated with, and what are the main points?

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MINUCHIN
STRUCTURAL FAMILY THERAPY

dysfunction results from inflexible structure
if rigid, system must be jarred (often by therapist undermining homeostasis) and restructured.
Enmeshment vs. Disengagement

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What is Minuchin’s “Joining” technique, using mimesis & tracking?

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MINUCHIN
JOINING
Blending w family system using
Mimesis: adopting style & language
Tracking: identifying fam’s values and hx

Front 27

Who is associated w the “Family Map”?

Back 27

Family Map
=
MINUCHIN

Front 28

Who’s associated with Paradoxical Directives?

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Paradoxical Directives: HALEY

Front 29

What is MILAN SYSTEMIC FAM THERAPY associated with?

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MILAN<><> Circular patterns of action & reaction that become rigid<>Therapy teams with observer behind mirror<>object of therapy: help fam members see choices in their actions/reactions<>Circular Questions: having each member answer same question

Front 30

BASIC ID is associated with which type of therapy?

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Lazarus' Multimodal Therapy