CPCE Theories

Theories and their descriptions for CPCE

person centered

individual is good and moves towards growth and self-actualization; unconditional positive regard, empathy

transactional analysis

messages learned about self in childhood determine whether a person is good or bad, though intervention can change the script;

classical conditioning

pairing US that has UR with CS to get CR; extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization

operant conditioning

behavior modification through environmental stimuli and reinforcement contingencies, positive/negative reinforcement and punishment, schedules of reinforcement, shaping

social learning

an individual learns through observation and modeling

piaget cognitive development

assimilation, accommodation, schemas

piaget stages

sensorimotor, pre-operationa, concrete operational, formal operations

constructionist development

ZPD, scaffolding, private speech

psychosocial stages

trust/mistrust, autonomy/shame, initiative/guilt, industry/inferiority, identity/role confusion, intimacy/isolation, generatively/stagnation, integrity/despair

ego development

personal, symbiotic, impulsive, self protective, conformist, self-awareness, conscientous, individualistic, autonomous, integrated

identity development

achievement, moratorium, forclosure, diffusion

moral development

preconventional - desire to avoid punishment, hedonism

conventional - please everyone, follow rules of rules sake

post-conventional - social and moral construction, universal principles

women moral development

orientation to individual survival, goodness as self-sacrifice, morality of nonviolence

psychodynamic

goal is to make unconscious conscious; free association, dream analysis, interpretation

individual psychology

goal is to increase social interests and reduce feelings of inferiority; birth order, lifestyle, acting as if, superiority/inferiority complex

jungian psychology

develop appropriate contact with conscious; individuation, collective consciousness, archetypes, dream interpretation

behaviorism

change behaviors; shaping, maintenance, extinction, behavioral rehersal, etc.

CBT

improve self talk / automatic thoughts through restructuring

REBT

goal is to think more rationally; irrational thoughts, role palying, ABCDE

reality therapy

make choice to meet basic needs

logotherapy

exstisentialism; find meaning and explore universal concepts, death, freedom, responsibility, isolation, meaninglessness

gestalt therapy

capacity to govern life effectively as a whole, part of environment’ homeostasis, holistic, here and now, psychodrama