CACREP AREA: Counseling and Helping Relationships Flashcards
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Sigmund Freud is the father of psychoanalysis, which is both a form of treatment and a very comprehensive personality theory.
According to Freud’s theory, inborn drives (mainly sexual) help form the personality. __?__ and __?__, who originally worked with Freud, created individual psychology and analytic psychology, respectively.
Alfred Adler; Carl Jung
HINT: Adler = father of individual psychology, Jung = founder of analytic psychology
Eric Berne’s transactional analysis (TA) posits three ego states: the Child, the Adult, and the Parent. These roughly correspond to Freud’s structural theory that includes…?
Id, ego, and superego
In transactional analysis (TA), the ___?___
is the conscience, __?__ or ego state concerned with moral behavior, while in Freudian theory it is the __?__
Parent; superego
Freud felt that successful resolution of the Oedipus complex led to the development of the superego. This is accomplished by…?
Identification with the aggressor, the parent of the same sex
Freudian’s refer to ego as the…?
Executive administrator of the personality and the reality principle
Freud’s theory speaks of Eros and Thanatos. A client who threatens a self-destructive act is being ruled primarily by…?
Thanatos
HINT: Thanatos = death/self-destruction, Eros = love/self-preservation
Think of Thanatos as the Marvel villian Thanos and Eros like arrows as in cupid’s arrows or Harry Styles superhero character in TThe Eternals
The id is present at birth and never matures. It operates mainly out of awareness to satisfy instinctual needs according to the…?
Pleasure principle, suggesting humans desire instinct gratification such for libido, sex, or the elimination of hunger or thirst
If you think of the mind as a seesaw, then the fulcrum or balancing apparatus would be the…?
Ego
**HINT: **Ego (reality principle) attempts to balance the Id (pleasure principle) and the superego (ego ideal)
A therapist who says to a patient “Say whatever comes to mind” is practicing what?
Free association
The superego contains the ego ideal. The superego strives for __?__rather than __?__ like the id.
Perfection; pleasure
Which theorist is not associated with the analytic movement?
Joseph Wolpe
HINT: Wolpe developed systematic desensitization, which is a form of behavior therapy based on Pavlov’s classical conditioning. Systematic desensitization is used to help weaken a client’s response to a anxiety-provoking stimuli
Most scholars would assert that Freud’s 1900 work entitled “The Interpretation of Dreams” was his most influential. Dreams have what (in the context of Freud)?
Manifest and latent content
HINT: Manifest content = surface meaning of a dream, Latent content = hidden meaning of a dream
When a client projects unconscious feelings toward the therapist that he or she originally had toward a significant other, it is called what?
Transference
Which case is not associated with the psychodynamic movement?
Little Albert
**HINT: **Little Albert is associated with the behaviorists Watson who’s study conditioned albert to fear a white mouse
In contrast with classical psychoanalysis, psychodynamic counseling or therapy does what?
**HINT: **Multiple answers
1) Utilizes fewer sessions per week
2) Does not utilize the couch
3) Is performed face to face
Talking about difficulties in order to purge emotions and feelings is a curative process known as what?
Catharis and/or abreaction
HINT: Catharsis/abreaction is the emotional release of repressed feelings in counseling, leading to relief and insight.
Id, ego, superego is to structural theory as __?__ is topographical theory
Unconscious, preconscious, conscious
HINT:
Topographical theory, proposed by Freud, divides the mind into three levels: the conscious (thoughts we’re aware of), the preconscious (easily accessible thoughts), and the unconscious (deep, hidden drives and desires).
The most controversial aspect of Freud’s theory is…?
Oepidus complex
What concept is not one that serves as evidence for the unconscious mind?
Subjective units of distress scale (SUDS)
HINT: SUDS is part of Wolpe’s systematic desensitization
In a counseling session, a counselor asked a patient to recall what transpired three months ago to trigger her depression. There was silence for about two and one-half minutes. The client then began to remember.
This exchange most likely illustrates the function of the __?__ mind
Pre-conscious mind
HINT: Pre-conscious mind is able to bring thoughts, images, ideas, etc. into awareness
Unconscious processes, which serve to minimize anxiety and protect the self from severe id or superego demands, are called…?
Ego defense mechanisms
Most therapists agree that ego defense mechanisms are unconscious and deny or distort reality. Rationalization, compensation, repression, projection, reaction formation, identification, introjection, denial, and displacement are ego defense mechanisms.
According to Freudians, the most important defense mechanism is what?
Repression
Suppression differs from repression in that…?
Repression is automatic or involuntary
An aggressive person who becomes a professional boxer because he or she is sadistic is displaying what ego defense mechanism?
Sublimination
HINT: Sublimation is when you channel negative or inappropriate urges into positive, productive activities