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Counseling Psyc.
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01/23/2005

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Superegeo
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That aspect of personality that repersents one's moral training. It strives for perfection, not pleasure
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Shadow
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A jungian archetype representing thoughts, feelings, and actions that we tend to disown by projecting them outward
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Transference
Definition
The client's unconcious shifting to the therapist of feelings and fantasies, both positive and negative, that are displacements.
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Unconcious
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That aspect of psychological funtioning or of personality that houses experiences, wishes, impulses, and memories in an out-of-awareness state as a protection against anxiety.
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Working Through
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A process of resolving basic conflicts that are manifested in the client's relationship with the therapist; achieved by the repetition of interpretations and by exploring forms of resistance.
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Resistance
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The client's reluctance to bring to awareness threatening unconcious material that has been repressed.
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Blank Screen
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An anonymous stance asumed by classical psychonanalysts aimed at fostering transference.
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Bordering Personality
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A disorder characterized by instability, iritability, self-destructive acts, impulsitivity, and extreme mood shifts. Such people lack a sense of their own identity and do not have a deep understanding of others.
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Brief Psychodynamic Therapy (BPT)
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An adaptation of the principles of psychoanalytic theory and therapy aimed at treating selective disorders within a preestablished time limit.
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Collective Unconscious
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Frm a Jungian perspective, the depest level of the psyche that contains an accumulation of inherited experiences.
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Countertransference
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The therapist's unconscious emotional responses to a client that are likely to interfere with objectivity; unresolved conflicts of the therapists that are projected onto the client.
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Ego
Definition
The part of the personality that is the mediator between external reality and inner demands.
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Ego-defense mechanisms
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Intrapsychic processes that operate unconsciously to protect the person from threatening and therefore, anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, and impulses.
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Ego Psychology
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The psychological approach of Erik Erikson; emphasizes the development of the ego or self at various stages of life.
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Fixation
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The condition of being arrested/stuck at one level of psychosexual development.
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Free Association
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A primary technique, consisting of spontaneous and uncensored verbalization by the clinet, which gives clues to teh nature of teh client's unconscious conflicts.
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Id
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The part of personality present at birth, that is blind, demanding, and insistent. Its function is to discharge tension and return to homeostasis.
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Identity Crisis
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A developmental challenge, occuring during adolescence, whereby the person seeks to establish a stable view of self and to define a place in life.
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Individuation
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The harmonious integration of the conscious and unconscious aspects of personality.
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Libido
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The instinctual drives ot the id and the source of psychic energy.
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Narcissism
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Extreme self-love, as opposed to a love for others. A narcissistic personality is characterized by a grandiouse and exaggerated sense of self importance and a exploited attitude toward others which hides a poor self-concept.
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Object Relatedness
Definition
Interpersonal relationships as tehy are represented intrpstchically.
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Object Relations Theory
Definition
A newer version of pstchoanalytic thinking, which focuses on predeictable developmental sequences in which early experiences of self shift in relation to an expanding awareness of others. It hold that individuals go through phases of autism and indiduation, culminating in a state of integration.
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Psycodynamics
Definition
The interplay of opposing forces and intrapsychic conflicts, providing a basis for understanding human motivation.
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Psycosexual stages
Definition
The freudian chronological phases of development, beginning in infancy. Each is characterized by a primary way of gaining sensual and sexual gratification.
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Psychosocial
Definition
Erikson's turning points form infancy through old age. Each presents psychological and social tasks that must be mastered if maturation is to proceed in a helathy fashion.
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Reaction Formation
Definition
A defense against a threatening impulse, involving actively expressing the opposite impulse.
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Relational Analysis
Definition
An analytic model based on the assumption that therapy is an interactive process between client and therapist. The interpersonal analyst assumes that countertransference is a source of information about the client's character and dynamics.
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Repression
Definition
The ego-defense mechanism wehreby threatening or painful thoughts or feelings are exluded from awareness.
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Counselor's are value-neutral.
Definition
False.
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The counselor's job is to asist the client in finding answeres that are congruent with their own values.
Definition
True
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What should a counselor know about burnout?
Definition
what causes it
how to recognize and remedy it
how to prevent it
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What three important things should counselors remember?
Definition
Consider your motivation
Find support as you struggle
Have help in dealing with personal issues
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When are biasses reflected
Definition
when we:
1)Neglect social and comm. factors to focus unduly on individualism.
2)Asses clients w/ instruments that have not been normed on the population they represent.
3)Judge a client by our culture instead of their culture.
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The Role of Ethical Codes
Definition
educate us about responsibilities
basis for acoountability
protect clients
basis for improving professional practice.
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How do you make ethical decisions?
Definition
Identify the problem
review relevant codes
seel consultation
brainstorm
list consequences
decide
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Client Rights
Definition
The principles that underlie our professional codes.
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What should the counselor remember regarding Client's Rights?
Definition
Clients need enough information about the counseling process to make informed decisions.
Confidentiality is esseential.
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What are the exceptions for confidentiality?
Definition
The client poses danger
The client is under 16 and a victim of abuse
Hospitilization is needed
Information arises in court
Client requests release of record
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What questions are important to ask when considering a dual relationship?
Definition
Will it keep me from confronting & challenging?
Will my needs for the relationship become therepeutic activities?
Can my client manage the relationship?
Can I?
Whose needs are being met?
Can I recognize and manage professionally my attraction?
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What are some issues faced by beginning therapists?
Definition
Achieving sense of self-balance
Managing difficult and unsatisfying relationships
Struggling with comittment and personal growth
Developing healthy, happy relationships
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