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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology

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1. Provides tools and experience that client can use to be more assertive






2. To reduce feelings of inferiority and to foster social interest and social contribution in patients






3. Unconscious material always looking for a way to discharge repressed emotion






4. Aaron Beck






5. Initially: Freud preferred a topographic model of mental life - Then: Mental life was structural - meaning that mental life has particular organization other than layers (ego - id - superego)

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6. Victor Frankl






7. Carl Gustav Jung - the psyche was directed toward life and awareness (rather than sex) - In each personal the psyche contains conscious and unconscious elements (personal and collective unconscious)






8. Jean Charcot and Pierre Janet






9. General term that refers to theories that emphasize the positive - evolving free will in people (such as client-centered - Gestalt - or existential); optimistic about human nature; 'Third Force'






10. Shifting unacceptable feelings/actions to a less threatening recipient






11. Uses operant conditioning to change behavior - reinforced for behaviors that come closer and closer to desired action






12. Treating symptoms rather than underlying problem






13. Goal is to increase sense of being and meaningfulness - to alleviate neurotic anxiety






14. Maladaptive cognitions lead to abnormal behaviour or disturbed affect; cognitive triad - types of maladaptive cognitions: arbitrary inference - overgeneralization - magnifying/minimizing - personalizing - dichotomous thinking






15. Client-centered therapist should speak and act genuinely - not maintain a professional reserve (feelings and experiences of the therapist should match)






16. Accusing others of having one'S own unacceptable feelings






17. Mistaking isolated incidents for the norm (e.g. 'no one will ever want to be with me')






18. Aim to affect neurotransmitters; commonly dopamine - serotonin - norepinephrine (monoamines)






19. Making too much or little of something (e.g. 'it was luck that I did well')






20. Memories that serve as representations of important childhood experiences






21. Patients react to the therapist like they react to their parents






22. Tricyclic chemical structure; ex. amitriptyline (Elavil®)






23. Secondary process; guided by ego and responds to environment by delaying gratification






24. Uses operant principle of negative reinforcement to increase anxiety - anxiety-reaction created where there was none; usually to treat addiction and fetishes






25. Provide trusting atmosphere for client to self-direct growth and tap his own 'vast resources' - evidence of growth includes a congruent self-concept - positive self-regard - internal locus-of-evaluation - and willingness to experience






26. Response to perceived one'S meaninglessness is neurosis or neurotic anxiety (as opposed to normal or justified anxiety)






27. Not suited for low-functioning or disturbed clients






28. Emphasized culture and society over instinct; suggested neuroticism expressed as movement toward - against - and away from people






29. Use unconscious messages to become more aware and closer to full potential






30. Alfred Adler - Adlerian theory - people are viewed as creative - social and whole as opposed to Freud'S more negative and structural approach - process of becoming - Healthy individuals: --> peruse goals in spite of feelings of interiority - --> has






31. Goal is for (e)ffective rational beliefs to replace previous self-defeating ones - then client'S thoughts - feelings - and behaviours can coexist






32. Too mystical or spiritual






33. Abnormal behaviour is the result of learning and conditioning






34. The part of mind that mediates between the environment and the pressures of the id and the superego






35. Primary process; human motivation to seek pleasure and avoid pain; id






36. Sanguine - high in activity and high in social contribution - healthy






37. Model based on learning; application of classical and operant conditioning principles to human abnormal behavior - change maladaptive behaviour through new learning; radical behavioralism - neobehaviouralism






38. The life instinct - including sex and love






39. Therapist engages in a dialogue with client rather than leading toward a goal; client learns from dialogue - and together focus on here-and-now experience rather than talking about the past






40. Client-centered therapist must appreciate rather than just observe client'S perspective






41. Inappropriately taking responsibility (e.g. 'our failed project was all my fault')






42. short-term and directed; - thoughts - feelings and unconsciousness not addressed; - Therapist use counterconditioning techniques to help client learn new responses; - Techniques: systematic desensitization - flooding or implosive therapy - aversion t






43. Karen Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan - accepted some of freud'S ideas and reject others






44. Stress-inoculation training






45. People work their way up hierarchy toward self-actualization by satisfying needs at the previous level: physiological needs - hunger - thirst - shelter - warmth - safety - security - stability - lack of fear - belonging - love - acceptance - esteem -






46. Like cognitive and behaviour theory - considered too sterile and mechanistic






47. Child clients; during play a child may convey emotions - situations - or disturbances conveyed might otherwise go unexpressed






48. Employs principles from cognitive and behavioral theory






49. Not allowing threatening material into awareness






50. Donald Meichenbaum - prepares people for foreseeable stressors