NCE Practice words

Psychodrama

A therapeutic approach that uses guided drama and role-playing to explore and address emotional and psychological issues. It allows participants to reenact and gain insight into personal experiences, facilitating healing and understanding.

Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale

 The measurement of adaptive behaviors, including the ability to cope with environmental changes, to learn new everyday skills, and to demonstrate independence.

Avoidance of Conflict

A behavioral pattern where an individual deliberately sidesteps, postpones, or completely withdraws from disagreements, tension, or difficult conversations to maintain temporary peace

Beck Depression Inventory

This assessment instrument is used to screen for symptoms of depression in individuals aged 13-80 years.

Which is NOT a barrier for Hispanic minorities in regard to mental health care?

Lowest prevalence of mental health issues

You are interviewing a new client who has a potential substance abuse problem. Which assessment do you consider administering to this client to elicit more information about their presenting issues?

CAGE Questionnaire

Cage Questionaire

4-question screening tool used by healthcare providers to detect potential alcohol use disorders

Tuckmans Forming Stage

Members meet, display polite and cautious behavior, and figure out their roles and orientation toward the task.

Tuckmans Storming Stage

Interpersonal friction, power struggles, and disagreements over priorities or methods emerge.

Tuckmans Norming Stage

Trust builds, rules and working styles are established, and cooperation replaces conflict.

Tuckmans Performing Stage

The team operates with high interdependence, autonomy, and flexibility to hit collective targets.

Tuckmans Adjourning Stage

The project wraps up, the team disbands, and members experience transition or a sense of loss.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

A structured, goal-oriented type of talk therapy that helps people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors

Generativity Vs. Stagnation

Autonomy Vs. Shame & Doubt

Occurs during ages 18 months to 3 years old. It's marked by the unfolding of a self-view as capable of bodily control and ability to make things happen vs. the feeling of an inability to control events. 

Ego Integrity Vs. Despair

The eighth and final stage of Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, occurring in late adulthood from roughly age 65 until death

Industry Vs. Inferiority

The fourth stage of Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development. Roughly 6 to 11 or 12 years old.

Trust Vs. Mistrust Erickson

Birth to 18 months

Autonomy Vs. Shame and Doubt

2 - 3 years old

Initiative vs. Guilt

3 - 5 Years old

Industry Vs. Inferiority

6 - 11 years old

Identity Vs. Role Confusion

12 - 18 years old

Intimacy Vs. Isolation

19 - 40 years old

Generativity vs. Stagnation

40 - 65 years old

Ego integrity vs. Despair

65 years to death

Confrontation

A therapist gently points out a discrepancy, mixed message, or conflict in a client's words, values, or actions

Translating Insight into Action

Turning self-awareness and "aha" moments into real-life behavior changes

Mutality

The shared, bi-directional experience where both the therapist and the client affect and are affected by each other

Immeadiacy

An advanced microskill where the therapist shares their present-day thoughts, feelings, or intuitive hunches about what is happening in the "here-and-now" interaction between therapist and client

Independent Variable

The factor in an experiment or study that a researcher intentionally manipulates, changes, or controls to test its effect on another factor

Altruism

The opportunity to rise above yourself to assist another, feeling useful in the process.

Reframing (Gestalt Therapy)

Empty Chair (Gestalt Therapy)

Grief technique that allows the client to process interpersonal problems or unfinished business by role-playing conversations he or she may have with the individual not present

Joining (Gestalt Therapy)

Family Mapping (Gestalt Therapy)

P-Value significance level

.05

Cocurrent Valodity

Demonstrated where a test correlates well with a measure that has previously been validated.