Clinical Interviewing Final Part 1 Flashcards

Question

What is interactional sequence?

Answer 1

Helpers formulate intentions for what they want to accomplish and then decide on specific helping skills to reach goals. Helper intervention is met by the client reactions. Clients engage in specific behaviors on the basis of their reactions, feelings about the therapeutic relationship.

Answer 2

Enhancement of well-being.

Answer 3

Achievement of symptom relief.

Answer 4

Reduction of maladaptive behavior.

Answer 5

Changes within the client.

Answer 6

Changes in the client's intimate relationships.

Answer 7

Client’s ability to carry out responsibilities.

Answer 8

Self-knowledge or insight.

Answer 9

Sensitivity in the here and now.

Answer 10

1) Facilitate self-awareness 2) Decrease hindering/interfering self-awareness.

Answer 11

1) We all have biases based on the stereotypes of others. 2) Hot buttons reflect problems that can be triggered in the helping setting.

Answer 12

1) Clients who have committed crimes 2) Clients who express hostility 3) Based on our own personal backgrounds.

Answer 13

1) Psychotherapy 2) Self-reflection 3) Increase self-compassion.

Answer 14

1) Resolve personal problems and learn about yourself. 2) Recognize personal issues that could interfere with the ability to help. 3) Enable you to work on your growth. 4) Teach you about the process of helping.

Answer 15

1) Mindfulness 2) Meditation 3) Relaxation.

Answer 16

1) Pause 2) Use positive self-talk 3) Return focus to the client 4) Return to the use of basic techniques.

Answer 17

1) Set aside personal events to try and focus. 2) Need to maintain boundaries.

Answer 18

The customs, values, attitudes, beliefs, characteristics and behaviors a group shares.

Answer 19

A= Age and Generational Influence D/D= Developmental or other Disability R= Religion and Spiritual Orientation E= Ethnic and Racial Identity S= Socioeconomic status S= Sexual orientation I= Indigenous Heritage N= National Origin G= Gender

Answer 20

The interaction of multiple identities of systematic oppression. Originally used to understand the experiences of Black women, whose experiences were often not represented in the feminist theory and antiracist politics.

Answer 21

A socially constructed idea. Racial identity is often more important than race/ethnicity itself because it is more indicative of how people define themselves.

Answer 22

Retaining norms of one’s Indigenous culture.

Answer 23

Adapting norms of dominant culture.

Answer 24

When familial hierarchies are disrupted because children acculturate faster and can use the new language better than their parents.

Answer 25

Focusing on rights of the individual, seeing people as independent and autonomous.

Answer 26

Focusing on family, viewing people as interdependent.

Answer 27

How much power and authority is considered (some cultures value everyone equally, and some have hierarchical power structures).

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Cultures that have many rules and restrictions but are relatively safe.

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Cultures that have more freedom and individuality but are more chaotic.

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1) We will not always get it 'right'. 2) Helpers lack knowledge about cultural differences/ power differences.

Answer 31

Intentional or unintentional verbal, nonverbal, and environmental oversights, snubs, or insults that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely on their marginalized group membership. We need to become aware of our privileges, biases, and stereotypes and apologize when we commit microaggressions.

Answer 32

1) Helpers should learn as much as possible about the person’s cultural group. 2) Helpers should be open to talking about similarities and differences. 3) Helpers should be sensitive to their client’s responses.

Answer 33

1) It is not possible to be an expert on all cultures. 2) Some clients value matching on demographic variables more than others. 3) Difficulties can arise when working within our own cultural groups as well. 4) Making cultural mistakes with clients is inevitable.

Answer 34

1) Rooted in phenomenology or an emphasis on the experiences, feelings, values, and inner life of the person. 2) Everyone has the potential for healthy and creative growth. 3) People are guided by their internal experience. 4) Need to enter another’s world. 5) Basic motivational force= tendency toward self-actualization. 6) Each person has an innate blueprint that can be developed. 7) People are resilient and can bounce back from adversity.

Answer 35

1) Organismic valuing process- internal guide everyone has at birth to evaluate an experience based on whether it makes them feel good or bad. Leads to self-trust and self-actualization. 2) Unconditional Positive Regard-when children feel accepted and loved by significant others, they experience self-love and self-acceptance. 3) Conditions of worth (COD)- The more COWs, the more distorted the person becomes from experiencing and the more the person will have a conflicted sense of self. 4) All needs cannot be met because the world is not perfect. 5) Manner in which parents socialize their children is crucial. 6) Children can come not to trust their inner experiences. 7) People feel emptiness or a lack of genuineness when they cannot allow themselves to have their feelings. 8) Split/ incongruence between real and ideal self leads to the source of anxiety, depression, and defensiveness.

Answer 36

Split between real and ideal self, the person feels threatened, responds with anxiety, and invokes defenses. Defenses reduce the incongruity between experience and sense of self.

Answer 37

YES, excessive use can be harmful due to incongruency with external reality, the development of a rigidity of perception in areas in which they have had to defend against perceiving reality, real self can become incongruent with the ideal self.

Clinical Interviewing Final Part 1 Flashcards

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