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Id

The part of the personality that contains the drive to self-preservation and pleasure. Present from birth or before and operates unconsciously.

Superego

The part of the personality that contains standards for behavior. Is thought to be a representation of rules learned from parents and other authorities. It operates unconsciously.

Ego

The part of the personality that regulates behavior by compromising among the demands of the id, the superego, and reality. Contains many functions, such as memory, perception, reality testing, and defense mechanisms. These work together in a continuous process of adapting to reality. Many ego functions operate unconsciously.

Reality Testing

The ability to tell the difference between reality and fantasy and to share the same general ideas about reality as everyone else. This is an ego function.

Symbol

Something that represents something else. They may be universal, cultural, or idiosyncratic.

Analysis of symbols

One of the methods used in object relations therapy. The therapist analyzes symbols and the patient's dreams or artwork to discover their unconscious meanings.

Suppression

An attempt to control anxiety and conflict by consciously controlling or denying it. This is conscious, unlike the defense mechanisms, but it may serve the same purpose in regard to anxiety.

Development

A process of maturation occurring throughout life.

Developmental task

A problem or crisis that arises during a developmental stage. Solving the problem shows mastery of the task. An example is choosing a career, traditionally a task of adolescence

Developmental lag

A delay in development demonstrated by failure to master a developmental task.

Psychosocial development

The ongoing process in which the person resolves conflicts between personal needs and what society demands and permits.

Erikson

Person related to psychosocial theory.

Piaget

Person related to cognitive theory.

Gesell

Person related to motor theory.

Gradation

Learning through successfully more challenging and complex stages.

Behavior

Any observable action.

Reinforcement

Consequences of behavior that either encourages or discourages the repetition of the behavior.

Terminal behavior

The treatment goal, the behavior the person will show at the end of a successful treatment program.

Shaping

A method of approaching the terminal behavior gradually, using a series of steps (successive approximations) that lead to the goal.

Chaining

A method of teaching a complex activity one step at a time, starting with either the first or the last step. The therapist performs the remaining steps until the person masters the entire sequence.

Backward chaining

Chaining that starts with the last step. It is believed to be more effective than forward chaining.

Forward chaining

Chaining that starts with the first step.

Schedule reinforcement

The timing of reinforcement. Schedules may be continuous (reinforcement follows every performance of the desired behavior) or intermittent (reinforcement is given only occasionally).

Extinction

Discouraging an undesired behavior by removing any reinforcement. An example might be a therapist ignoring a child's temper tantrum instead of responding to it. This is called planned ignoring.

Terminal behavior

The normal or adaptive behavior that the therapist wants the person to perform.

Assumptions

The unarticulated rules by which a person orders and organizes experience. These are arbitrary and are learned or acquired during development. These may be adaptive, maladaptive, depressogenic (leading to depression) and so on.

Attribution

The meaning a person attaches to an event. These may be either positive or negative.

Automatic thoughts/Cognitions

Thoughts that occur involuntarily and that are provoked by specific events and situations. For persons with psychiatric disorders, these thoughts are often negative and based on faulty assumptions or errors in reasoning.

Cognitive distortions / cognitive errors

Errors in reasoning such as over-generalization, all-or-nothing thinking, and personalization.

Self-talk

One's personal cognitions or internal thoughts.

Bibliotherapy

A homework assignment to read books and articles that are reinforced material covered in therapy sessions.

Cognitive rehearsal

The technique of carrying out a task in one's imagination.

Graded task assignment

A series of tasks graded from simple to complex, the purpose of which is to promote engagement in activities, realistic self assessment, and positive self-evaluation of ability to reach a goal.

Reattribution

A technique used to challenge the self-blaming thoughts of depressed persons. The purpose is to show that events perceived as negative may not be the persons fault.

Self-monitoring

Noting and recording negative cognitions and the events that precede them.

Cognitive-behavioral approaches

Link a precipitating event to a person's thoughts about the event and then to the feelings these thoughts evoke.

Accurate empathy

Understanding the feelings and actions of another person, staying attuned to the person's thoughts and feelings. This is contrasted with sympathy, which includes a sense of feeling what the other feels.

Warmth

When a therapist gives off a sense that they are concerned about the patient's well-being.

Genuineness

The therapist conveys a sense that they really are the way he or she appears, and isn't just putting on an act for the patient's benefit.

Unconditional positive regard

A sense conveyed by the therapist that he or she accepts, likes, and respects the patient regardless of the patient's feelings or actions.

Nondirective behavior

A behavior of the therapist in which he or she refrains from giving an opinion on anything the patient says or does.

Open invitation to talk

An interviewing technique in which questions are worded to require a response longer than one or two words. This encourages the clients to talk.

Minimal response

A brief verbal or nonverbal action of the therapist that gives the message that he or she is listening and wants the clients to keep talking. Examples are nodding, saying "go on", and leaning forward in the chair.

Reflection of feeling

The therapist's restatement of the feeling conveyed by the client's words or nonverbal expression.

Paraphrasing

The therapist's restatement of the story or narrative content conveyed by the client's words.

Withholding judgment

The therapist's deliberate abstinence from giving opinions on a client's behavior, feeling, or intention.

Carl Rogers

Client-Centered therapy was developed by...

Neuroscience

Refers to the entire body of information about the nervous system. How it is organized, what it looks like, and how it operates.

Neuroscience theories

Based on the assumption that normal functioning requires a brain that is anatomically normal, with normal neurophysiology and brain chemicals in the proper proportions.

National Alliance on Mental Illness

What does NAMI stand for?

Overall rehabilitation goal (ORG)

An agreement between the client and practitioner about the environment and roles the client would like to occupy (where the client tends to live, learn, or work).

Rehabilitation diagnosis

A process to identify the clients ORG. The ORG becomes the basis for evaluating the clients skills (functional assessment), resource strength, and deficits (resource assessment), in relation to the school.

Rehabilitation planning

A process that identifies and prescribes high-priority skills and resource goals, the interventions for achieving them, and the personnel responsible.

Rehabilitation intervention

Processes for developing client skills and environmental resources specified in the client's rehabilitation plan. This may include direct skills teaching, skill refinement and practice, coordination and linking of existing resources, and development of new resources.

Rehabilitation readiness

A reflection of consumers' interest in rehabilitation and their self confidence in their capacity to compete a rehabilitation program.

Psychiatric rehabilitation (PsyR)

Combines principles and concepts from the fields of physical rehabilitation, client-centered therapy, behavioral psychology, and psychosocial rehabilitation.

Object

Anything toward which the Id directs its energies to satisfy a drive. May be human or non human (animals and things).

Object relations theory

Says that to change a person's mental illness, the person must bring unconscious conflicts to consciousness and make the person aware of them period.