Clinical Psychology: Ethics, Assessment, and Psychodynamic Concepts

Vocabulary flashcards covering ethical guidelines, clinical interview types, therapy efficacy, stages of change, and psychodynamic concepts from the lecture notes.

APA Principles

Beneficence, Fidelity & responsibility, integrity, justice, and respect for people’s rights & dignity.

Categories of Ethical Standards

Resolving ethical issues, competence, Human relations, Privacy & confidentiality, and Advertising & other public statements.

Circumstances to Break Confidentiality

Permissible when a client may harm themselves or others.

Golden water rule

The rule stating that you can’t assess someone until you’ve met with them.

Intake Interview

An interview designed to determine whether to “intake” the client into the agency or refer them elsewhere.

Diagnostics Interview

An interview conducted with the specific purpose of providing a DSM diagnosis.

Mental Status Exam

An assessment used to quickly evaluate how a client is functioning.

Crisis Interview

An interview utilized to assess the problem and provide immediate intervention.

Psychotherapy

Working with a person's mind.

Id

The pleasure principle; the unconscious mind that demands immediate satisfaction.

Ego

The mediator that makes the rational decisions.

Super Ego

The moral compass.

Tripartite (“three party”) Model

A model that includes the client, the therapist, and third parties.

Efficacy

The performance of something in controlled conditions, like the lab.

Effectiveness

The performance of something in real world conditions.

Precontemplation Stage

The stage of change where the client has no intention to change.

Contemplation Stage

The stage where the client is aware of the problem but not ready to commit.

Preparation Stage

The stage where individuals intend to take action.

Action Stage

The stage where the client is actively changing behavior.

Maintenance Stage

The stage focused on preventing relapse.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Therapy created by Freud with the primary goal to make the unconscious conscious.

Freudian Slips

Verbal or behavioral “mistakes” that reveal unconscious wishes.

Three Ways to Access the Unconscious

Freudian slips, dreams, and resistance.

Repression

A defense mechanism that keeps impulses in the unconscious.

Projection

A defense mechanism that causes someone to attribute their impulses to others, blaming others.

Reaction Formation

A defense mechanism that biases one to do the opposite of the impulse.

Displacement

A defense mechanism that causes one to redirect the impulse.

Sublimation

A defense mechanism that redirects the impulse in a way that benefits others.

Transference

When clients form a relationship with a therapist in which the client unconsciously and unrealistically expects the therapist to behave like people from the client’s past.

Countertransference

When a therapist expects the client to behave like someone from their past.

Oral Stage (birth to $1.5$ years)

Freud's psychosexual stage where the key issues are dependency and trust.

Anal Stage ($91.5$ to $3$ years)

Freud's psychosexual stage where the key issue is control.

Phallic Stage ($3$ to $6$ years)

Freud's psychosexual stage where the key issue is self-worth.

Ego Psychology

An approach involving Erik Erikson that emphasizes social relationships over psychosexual stages.

Object Relations

An approach involving Melaine Klein that emphasizes the relationship between internalized “objects”.

Self-Psychology

An approach involving Han Kohut that emphasizes parental roles in the development of the self, with special attention to narcissism.