PSYC 102: CHAPTER 16 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A++
psychotherapy
psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural and
interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives
gender differences in entering treatment
- women are more likely to seek treatment than men
- both sexes benefit equally from psychotherapy
ethnic differences in entering treatment
- members of minority groups (Asians and Hispanics in particular) are less likely to seek
mental health services
paraprofessionals
helpers who have no formal professional training and often provide psychological
services in such setting as crisis intervention centres and other social service agencies
clear advantage of seeking professional help, because professional helpers...
1) understand how to operate effectively within the mental health system
2) appreciate complex ethical, professional, and personal issues
3) can select treatments of demonstrated effectiveness
what makes a good therapist from the client's point of view?
an expert who is warm, respectful, caring and engaged
psychodynamic therapies
,treatments inspired by classical psychoanalysis and influences by Freud's techniques
insight therapies
psychotherapies, including psychodynamic, humanistic, and group approaches, with the
goal of expanding awareness or insight
3 approaches and beliefs of psychodynamic therapists
1) causes of abnormal behaviours (including unconscious conflicts, wishes, and
impulses) stem from traumatic or other adverse childhood experiences
2) they strive to analyze (a) distressing thought and feelings that clients avoid (b) wishes
and fantasies (c) recurring themes and life patterns (d) significant past events (e)
therapeutic relationship
3) believe that when clients achieve insight into previously unconscious material, the
causes and the significance of symptoms will become evident, often causing symptoms
to disappear
free association
technique in which clients express themselves without censorship of any sort
resistance
attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety associated with uncovering previously
repressed thoughts, emotions and impulses
how do clients express resistance
- skipping therapy session
- drawing a blank when the therapist asks a question about painful moments in their
past
what is done to minimize resistance?
, trying to make the clients aware that they're unconsciously blocking therapeutic efforts
and make clear HOW and WHAT they're resisting
transference
projecting intense, unrealistic feelings
key ingredients for psychoanalysis
1) free association
2) interpretation
3) dream analysis
4) resistance
5) transference
6) working through
goal of psychotherapy
individuation
individuation
the integration of opposing aspects of the personality into a harmonious "whole"
interpersonal psychotherapy
- Harry Stack Sullivan
- psychotherapy is a collaborative undertaking between client and therapist and that the
analyst's proper role is participant observer (who discovers and communicates to clients
their unrealistic attitudes and behaviours in everyday life)
interpersonal therapy (IPT)
- Sullivan
- short term (12 to 16 sessions)
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A++
psychotherapy
psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural and
interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives
gender differences in entering treatment
- women are more likely to seek treatment than men
- both sexes benefit equally from psychotherapy
ethnic differences in entering treatment
- members of minority groups (Asians and Hispanics in particular) are less likely to seek
mental health services
paraprofessionals
helpers who have no formal professional training and often provide psychological
services in such setting as crisis intervention centres and other social service agencies
clear advantage of seeking professional help, because professional helpers...
1) understand how to operate effectively within the mental health system
2) appreciate complex ethical, professional, and personal issues
3) can select treatments of demonstrated effectiveness
what makes a good therapist from the client's point of view?
an expert who is warm, respectful, caring and engaged
psychodynamic therapies
,treatments inspired by classical psychoanalysis and influences by Freud's techniques
insight therapies
psychotherapies, including psychodynamic, humanistic, and group approaches, with the
goal of expanding awareness or insight
3 approaches and beliefs of psychodynamic therapists
1) causes of abnormal behaviours (including unconscious conflicts, wishes, and
impulses) stem from traumatic or other adverse childhood experiences
2) they strive to analyze (a) distressing thought and feelings that clients avoid (b) wishes
and fantasies (c) recurring themes and life patterns (d) significant past events (e)
therapeutic relationship
3) believe that when clients achieve insight into previously unconscious material, the
causes and the significance of symptoms will become evident, often causing symptoms
to disappear
free association
technique in which clients express themselves without censorship of any sort
resistance
attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety associated with uncovering previously
repressed thoughts, emotions and impulses
how do clients express resistance
- skipping therapy session
- drawing a blank when the therapist asks a question about painful moments in their
past
what is done to minimize resistance?
, trying to make the clients aware that they're unconsciously blocking therapeutic efforts
and make clear HOW and WHAT they're resisting
transference
projecting intense, unrealistic feelings
key ingredients for psychoanalysis
1) free association
2) interpretation
3) dream analysis
4) resistance
5) transference
6) working through
goal of psychotherapy
individuation
individuation
the integration of opposing aspects of the personality into a harmonious "whole"
interpersonal psychotherapy
- Harry Stack Sullivan
- psychotherapy is a collaborative undertaking between client and therapist and that the
analyst's proper role is participant observer (who discovers and communicates to clients
their unrealistic attitudes and behaviours in everyday life)
interpersonal therapy (IPT)
- Sullivan
- short term (12 to 16 sessions)
