Clinical Psychology Flashcards
(33 cards)
What are c’mon strategies used by therapists using structured learning therapy?
Social skills training Modeling Role playing Skill instruction Performance appraisal
What is the difference in the use if transference between brief and long-term psychodynamic therapy?
Brief discourages a full-scale transference neurosis. Positive transference is seen as an important contributor to therapy process.
Abnormal regulation of melatonin levels is associated with which disorder?
Mood disorder with seasonal pattern bc it tends to respond to light therapy and melatonin levels are affected by lgbt-dark cycles
What symptom of depression are older adults least likely to demonstrate?
Sadness
What did Eysenck’s 1952 study find?
72% of untreated subjects improved vs 64% of subjects of eclectic and 44% of psychoanalytic. Results challenged the effectiveness of psychotherapy tx.
What therapy is Bowen known for?
Extended family therapy…rooted in psychoanalytic therapy
Characteristics of successful smoking cessation
Age 35 or older
Married or living with partner
Later age when started
Risk factors for smoking relapse
Young
Single
Early onset
According to RET, pathology is created and maintained by…
Biological predisposition and early life experiences. Symptoms are maintained by self-indoctrination-the internalization of attitudes of parents and others
What is the focus of logotherapy?
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life and we have freedom to find meaning in what we do and what we experience
What is the focus of Glasser’s reality therapy?
Current issues and current problems
What is the focus of solution focused therapy?
Here and now orientation on identifying solutions to problems
Focus of Kelly’s personal construct therapy?
Combines cognitive, behavioral, and humanistic concepts and focuses on the impact of the individual’s perspective on his/her experience of the world
Primary goal of gestalt therapy
Awareness
Primary goal of rational emotive therapy
Giving up irrational beliefs and ideas
Primary goal of psychoanalysis
Understanding of underlying intrapsychic conflicts
Primary goal of client-centered therapy
Congruence between self and experience
Self-in-relation theory suggests:
One’s self depends on how connects to others.
Self is viewed as progressing from infantile dependence towards a mature state of interdependence
What are scales 1,2,3 on MMPI
Scale 1 - hypochondriasis
Scale 2 - depression
Scale 3 - hysteria
A defensive pattern on the MMPI is obtained when:
The F scale score is significantly lower than scores on the L and K scales
A psychotic V profile is indicated on the MMPI when
Scale 7 is lower than than scores on scales 6 and 8
A passive aggressive profile is indicated when
Scale 5 is lower than 4 and 6
A conversion V profile is indicated when
Scale 2 is lower than 1 and 3
What is a “folie a deux”?
Shared psychotic disorder. An individual has developed a delusional system as a consequence of a close relationship with another person, the “primary case”, who already has an established delusion.
