PSY343 - 3. Existential Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy Flashcards

Question

Therapy Techniques

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Exploring personal worldview - trying to understand their take on the world explore client’s world from inside out - not entirely possible dealing in approximations

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Enquiring into meaning - understanding of what makes | world meaningful to client

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Scope + sample size of studies insufficient to firmly establish effectiveness Success beneficial impact of approach on couples groups dealing with chronic illness

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highly focused on assumption of self-determination may not take into account complex factors that many ppl who have been oppressed must deal with

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many cultures it not possible to talk about self + self-determination apart from context of social network + environmental conditions highly secular - less inclusive

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Vontress argues existential treatment suitable from all cultural backgrounds Issues about meaning of life raised in many nonWestern contexts

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``` not taking responsibility: i guess pointing out lip biting freedom: perfection psychological: fractured sense of self social tension: fear of rejection ```

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empathic, but also confrontational exploring her world - sense of her values taking responsibility means going into something with no knowledge of outcome no freedom in her head because everything is so controlled

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1930s by Carl Rogers new approach emphasized therapeutic relationship Focused on clients’ innate tendency towards growth

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1. 2 ppl in psychological contact | 2. client in state of incongruence, being vulnerable or anxious

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3. therapist is congruent or integrated in relationship | 4. therapist experiences unconditional positive regard for the client

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5. therapist experiences empathic understanding of client's internal frame of reference + endeavors to communicate this experience to client

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6. communication to client of therapist's empathic understanding + unconditional positive regard minimal degree achieved

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No other conditions necessary. If these exist + continue over a time, sufficient. process of constructive personality change will follow.

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Self-actualizing tendency motivates towards enhancement + growth self actualizing force points us to what we aspire to but organismic valuing system will guide us

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Organismic valuing system allows to differentiate those value that maintain or enhance our lives from those that negate our growth

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develop sense of self as begin to distinguish themselves from others developing child need for positive regard from others, to be accepted + loved, + fulfill blueprint for self-actualization

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parents place conditions of worth on love, child start trying to please parents instead of following organismic valuing process listening to passenger seat instead of own gps

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Judgmental parents: love condition upon child’s behaviour more conditional love, more pathology likely self concept driven by introjected conditions of worth source of anxiety and conflict

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Conditions of worth lead to split betw real + ideal self “threat”/anxiety when perceives betw real + ideal self too much anxiety creates defenses

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Defenses reduce incongruity + anxiety Distortion alters way experience is perceived Denial: disavowal of experience

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defenses too strong: too far away from internal experience + disintegrates loses sense of self - dissolves when defences too strong

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Reintegration when conditions of worth lose significance + person becomes more open to their experience

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too much discrepancy focus on reintegration and/or increase positive self-regard process often requires helping or faciltating relationship

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create warm, safe, nonjudgmental environment | respond with deep understanding of experience

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help clients become aware of their incongruence | assist clients find ways to move towards integration + wholeness

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Core conditions for change: | Empathy – trying to understand client’s experience + expressed back to check with their experience

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Congruence (genuineness) – therapist is freely + deeply him/herself; no discrepancy betw experience + expression in contact with own internal experience so that it’s an authentic encountering

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have to be in touch with themselves so you can treat them as a subject not as an object genuineness: what they’re doing is congruent with their beliefs

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Unconditional positive regard - valuing client’s experience without judgment; accepting client unconditionally often working on reflection rather than confrontation core conditions create facilitative environment client can pursue own trajectory of growth

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Emphasis on separate autonomous self that self-actualizes based on Western values of individualism, + White, male ideals societies where group is more important these goals may be inappropriate

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safe, accepting environment - client will do work because of self-actualizing potential create environment where they can do the work they just stick close to client’s experience

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Non-directiveness – therapist following client – may be challenging in hierarchical cultures, where clients tend to defer to therapist as expert issue with non-authoritative stance + may feel misunderstood

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Feminist critique – focuses only on indiv without educating client to political context of her problems problems seen to reside within indivi rather than society

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privileged client without awareness of context | solutions also in the realm of the client

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Nondirective as effective as other treatments | No evidence core conditions necessary or sufficient for therapeutic change - facilitative of therapeutic change

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Empathy single strongest therapist determinant of successful psychotherapy

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``` mmhm, repeating checking in: is that part of it, is that what you’re saying facilitative transition let’s her dictate silence ```

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acceptance vs rejection: how does someone be open and safe at the same time core concern brought into the relationship fear of getting too close congruence: he’s not clear so he goes back for clarification Gloria Tapes

PSY343 - 3. Existential Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy Flashcards

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