Exam 2

Front 1

Conditions of Worth
(define)

Back 1

learned behaviors & self regard from caretakers or significant others.
Need for positive regard-to feel love, value and respect by others
Need for self regard-client values self.

Front 2

Self actualization

Back 2

occurs when persons ideal self (who they would like to be) is congruent w/their self image

Front 3

self regulation and process

Back 3

clients become aware of their needs, desires, and sensations. Choices and adjustments a person makes from moment to moment adapting to changing circumstances.
State of equilibrium-sense of balance
Disruption of equilibrium- from a need, desire or sensation not yet realized still in background
Development of awareness- client may need therapist to help facilitate the awareness.
Taking actions-individual aware and able to take action to address situation or finish unfinished business to move forward
return to equilibrium-all is balanced until the next moment when dis-equilibrium experience occurs.

Front 4

5 Boundary Disturbances

Back 4

Introjection-uncritical acceptance of others beliefs and standards
Projection-projects their emotions or traits onto others, usually traits they want to disown.
Retroflection- two variations turns back onto self something they would like to do to another or doing to self something they would like done to them by another.
Deflection- distraction designed to diffuse or reduce contact
Confluence- a merging of boundaries

Front 5

theory of psychopathology Gestalt

Back 5

occurs when natural process of contact, excitement, self-regulation and new learning are disturbed. some contacts may prove challenging, resistance to contact is a creative adjustment by the person to deal with difficult situations.

Front 6

figure formation process

Back 6

constant shifting of cognaitive and perceptual focus. EX: driving focused on road, cell phone rings you pick it up, you focus shifts. Bringing background focuses into the foregorund.

Front 7

3 examples of Operant Conditioning may see or use in treatment

Back 7

Voucher program- clients earn vouchers exchangeable for retail items contingent upon verified abstinence from drug use or compliance of other behavior changes.
Medication take home- clients are permitted to "earn" take homes doses in exchange for increasing, decreasing or ceasing certain behaviors.
Level Systems- designed so that once one level is achieved the person earns that level and all levels below it.

Front 8

A B C's of Functional Behavior Analysis

Back 8

Anticedent-everything that happens just before the maladaptive behavior.
Behavior-the persons problem, specific ex; anger
Consequences- of the behavior, everything that happens after the behavior.

Front 9

Goal of Functional Behavior Analysis

Back 9

to determine function of a behavior, what in the enviroment is reinforcing the problem (cause and effect) cant always observe behaviors.

Front 10

what are the steps in case formulation according to cognitive behavioral therapy

Back 10

A) Create the problem list
B) Identify mechanisms underlying or causing the disorder and/or problems
C) Identify precipitants activation the current problems
D) Consider the origins of the current problem

Front 11

what are the methods of exploring automatic thoughts and core beliefs according to cognitive behavioral therapy

Back 11

Guessing the thought- try to put what client told you already into a meaningful statement that might be what their automatic thought or core belief is

Vertical descent- uncovers core beliefs that we may not even be aware of as the client or the therapist.

Chasing cognitive distortions- some clients use the same distortions over and over-they have been internalized and tend to be a great deal of their perception of self and world .

Front 12

theory of psychopathology according to PCT

Back 12

A failure to learn from experience
Arises from individuals experience of judgement or invalidation of self by someone important.
therapist to get person to trust self and close to ideal self