Counseling Psych 1

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main interest (psychoanalytic)

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id, ego, superego conflicts

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main interest (Adlerian)

Back 2

inferiority (helplessness, birth order, "masculine protest")
fictional finalism

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main interest (existential)

Back 3

freedom/responsibility
death
meaninglessness
isolation

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Client's behaviors/explanation (psychoanalytic)

Back 4

repression, denial, regression, projection, rationalization, reaction formation, displacement, sublimation

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Client's behaviors/explanation (Adlerian)

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fictional finalism influences lifestyle

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Client's behaviors/explanation (person-centered)

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human beings possess positive goodness and the desire to become fully functioning

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How problems arise (psychoanalytic)

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anxiety from childhood conflicts

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How problems arise (Adlerian)

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discouragement, problematic style of life

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How problems arise (existential)

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confrontation of the 4 concerns and lying in response; a state of inauthenticity or meaninglessness; anxiety (normal/existential vs. neurotic)

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How problems arise (person-centered)

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when you give into conditions of worth rather than who you really are; there is a gap between the real self and the ideal self

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Goals of therapy (psychoanalytic)

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restructure personality, gain new insights, identify and correct old patterns of behavior

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Goals of therapy (Adlerian)

Back 12

stimulate awareness and insight, reeducate clients about basic mistakes, release or promote social interest, encourage clients to recognize their strengths

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Goals of therapy (existential)

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raise consciousness: face defense mechanisms, engage in action that is based on the authentic purpose of creating a meaningful existence

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Goals of therapy (person-centered)

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client solves their problems on their own accord

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Therapist's role (psychoanalytic)

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understand client's motives, interpret client's thoughts feelings and behaviors, help clients work through unresolved issues and gain insight

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Therapist's role (Adlerian)

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educator, role-model, diagnostician

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Therapist's role (existential)

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understand the subjective world of the client, therapeutic relationship is key (authenticity, confront clients)

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Therapist's role (person-centered)

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provide the conditions that permit self-discovery and promote personal growth, serve as a role-model

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Techniques (psychoanalytic)

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free association, dream analysis, analysis of transference and resistance, interpretation

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Techniques (Adlerian)

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assessment, catching oneself, acting "as if", paradoxical intention

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Techniques (existential)

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focus on client's needs and experiences

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Techniques (person-centered)

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active listening, appropriate self-disclosure, here and now, concreteness

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criticisms/weaknesses (psychoanalytic)

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expense/time, overemphasis on the role of insight, difficult to research, less useful for crisis counseling, not cross-cultural

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criticisms/weaknesses (Adlerian)

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lacks a firm supportive research base, some of the basic concepts are vague, oversimplifies complex human functioning

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criticisms/weaknesses (existential)

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has not provided a fully developed model of therapy, concepts are abstract/ambiguous, limited in applicability to: lower-functioning clients, clients in crisis, clients concerned about meeting basic needs

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criticisms/weaknesses (person-centered)

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may give too much responsibility to client, may inhibit role of therapist, overemphasizes the relationship, more suitable for well-functioning clients, overemphasis on individuals with Western concepts, empirical counter arguments

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strengths/contributions (psychoanalytic)

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first comprehensive theory of personality, recognition of early childhood, coined term unconscious, transference/countertransference

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strengths (Adlerian)

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brief and time limited, provides a framework for "eclectic" therapists, useful for counseling culturally-diverse populations, focus on social context, useful for individuals with varying levels of stress

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strengths/contributions (existential)

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humanizes the process of therapy, provides a perspective for understanding the values of basic human conditions, enables clients to examine influences of social and cultural conditioning endows clients with agency, basic concepts can be useful to a number of theoretical orientations

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strengths/contributions (person-centered)

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provided excellent descriptions of effective therapeutic relationships, helped improve therapist's skills, helped promote client responsibility, a catalyst for clinical research into the process and outcomes of psychotherapy