Clinical Psycholy

This is the Primary Goal of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

To make the Unconscious Conscious (insight)

This is when a client says whatever comes to their mind

Free Association

These are unconscious techniques created by the ego as an attempt to handle conflict between the id and the superego

Defense Machanisms

Denial

involves a refusal to accept reality, thus blocking external events from awareness.

Repression

unconscious defense mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious.

Projection

in which an individual attributes unwanted thoughts, feelings, and motives to another person.

Displacement

redirection of an impulse (usually aggression) onto a powerless substitute target.

Regression

a form of retreat, enabling a person to psychologically go back in time to a period when the person felt safer.

Sublimation

similar to displacement, but takes place when we manage to displace our unacceptable emotions into behaviors which are constructive and socially acceptable, rather than destructive activities.

Rationalization

involving a cognitive distortion of “the facts” to make an event or an impulse less threatening.

Reaction Formation

“believing the opposite,” is a psychological defense mechanism in which a person goes beyond denial and behaves in the opposite way to which he or she thinks or feels.

Introjection

sometimes called identification, involves taking into your own personality characteristics of someone else, because doing so solves some emotional difficulty.

Transference

This is when a client unconsciously (and unpractically) expects a therapist to behave like important people from the clients life

The Goal of Humanistic Psychotherapy

Self-actualization

Carl Rodgers deemed these 3 things as necessary and sufficient for therapeutic change

Empath, Unconditional Positive Regard, and Genuineness

This is when an individuals actual self aligns with their ideal self

Congruence

This is an alternative intervention to Humanism and centers on addressing uncertainty about making change

Motivational Interviewing

This is the warmth, love, and acceptance that people need in order to grow and live

Positive Regard

This type of conditioning is active and based on consequences and contingencies of behavior

Operant Conditioning

This is when an individual directly confronts a feared stimulus or situation in real life

In Vivo Exposure

This model was created by Aaron Beck and included thoughts about self, the external world, and the future

The Cognitive Triad

This type of therapy assumes that illogical thought patterns contribute to psychopathology

Cognitive Therapy

This intervention is bases on the notion that depression is caused by a lack of positive reinforcement

Behavioral Activation

This personality test can measure test-taking attitudes through validity scales

The MMPI

This test was created to assess personality disorders

Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory

With regard to personality assessment, this is the practice of using a collection of different assessments instruments

Multi-Methos Assessment

The Rorschach Inkblot Method and the Thematic Apperception Test are examples of this kind of personality test

Projective

This test is a measure of personality characteristics not psychopathology

the NEO Personality Inventory

This refers to the finding that various form of psychotherapy is about equally beneficial

The Dodo Bird Verdict

This Person stated that intelligence is a singular characteristic and used “g: to represent it

Charles Spearman

This type of intelligence refer to the body of knowledge someone has accumulated over their life

Crystallized Intelligence

This refers to the feeling of interconnectedness among group members of group therapy

Group Cohesiveness

This individual proposed the three-stratum theory of intelligence

John Carroll

This is a statistical combination of Mutiple separate studies that can help represent the effects of psychotherapy across different settings

Meta-Analysis

What kind of test is the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Projective

What kind of stimuli does a Projective Personality Test use?

ambiguous stimuli

Objective Personality tests

Include unambiguous test items, clients have limited response, and tests are objectively scored

Evidence-Based Assessment

Using research and established theory to guide the selection of assessment tools, methods, and interpretations

Culturally Competent Assessment

Conducting a psychological evaluation while actively considering your clients background

Hillon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory

Test created to assess personality disorders

Wechsler’s Intelligence Test

widely used in clinical settings to identify learning disabilities, cognitive deficits, and neurological conditions

Stanford Binet Intelligence Scales

Covers the entire lifespan in a single test

Intelligence

is what a person CAN accomplished intellectually

Achievement

is what a person HAS accomplished

Wechsler Individual Achievement Test

is a comprehensive achievement test for people ages 4 to 50 (Math, Reading, Oral and Written Language Skills)

What is Psychotherapy?

Talk Therapy

What is Transference?

he process by which patients unconsciously transfer feelings and attitudes from a person or situation in the past onto a person or situation in the present, often the therapist.

Albert Elise

founded rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)