Counseling and Psychotherapy Overview

These flashcards cover key concepts and terminology related to counseling and psychotherapy drawn from the provided lecture notes.

Professional Identity

Shaped by personal life experiences and integral to the counselor's role

Authenticity in Therapy

The importance of genuine therapeutic relationships and the counselor's identity

Mandatory Ethics

The minimum level of professional practice required for counselors

Aspirational Ethics

The highest standards of thinking and conduct expected from practitioners

Technical Integration

Choosing the best techniques regardless of their theoretical origin

Psychoanalytic Therapy

Focuses on making the unconscious conscious and resolving internal conflicts

Social Interest

Key concept in Adlerian therapy linking mental health to community engagement

Countertransference

Therapist's emotional entanglement with the client's issues

Life Tasks in Adlerian Therapy

friendships, intimacy, and contributing to society

Freud’s Anxiety Types

Reality, neurotic, and moral anxiety

Relational Psychoanalysis

Contemporary trend emphasizing the importance of relationships in therapy

Cultural Sensitivity

The importance of understanding cultural context in ethical practice

Collective Unconscious

Concept in Jungian theory referring to shared memories and archetypes across cultures

Existential therapy

focuses on personal experiences makes it difficult to study scientifically

Comsciousness

Small part of the mind

Unconscious

Stores experiences, memories and repressed material

ID

Pleasure principle, demands instant gratification

EGO

reality principle, mediated between ID and reality

SUPEREGO

Moral principle, enforced ethical standards

Unity of personality of Adlerian theory

Behavior aimed to achieving personal goals

Adlerian’s Theory’s View of Human Nature

Past influences present perceptions, inferiority feelings lead to striving and creativity , superiority feelings motivate overcoming obstacles

Adlerian Theory Lifestyle

Organized pedaling reality and meaning and guides pursuit of perfection and competence for the common good

Adlerian Therapy goals

collaborative relationship between relationship and counselor