Theories and interventions NCMHCE
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sensate focus CORRECT ANSWERS a form of sex therapy that
involves graduated touching exercises
Assessment of ones life by listing significant accomplishments
CORRECT ANSWERS Long term existential process suited for
someone looking for greater fulfillment and meaning in life
Adlerian CORRECT ANSWERS Emphasizes uniqueness of the
individual.
Encourage development of self-understanding and help make
new choices that reinforce new insights
Challenge client's faulty notions
The goal of Adlerian Therapy is to challenge and encourage the
client's premises and goals, to encourage goals that are useful
socially, and to help the client feel equal.
Main aim: Make diff. in client's attitude and behavior
Contributing to society and other people is seen as an important
process in Adlerian therapy as it increases clients' social
involvement.
,Psychopathology -> when individual develops inappropriate
coping strategies to overcompensate for feelings or inferiority
developed during childhood
Important concepts: birth order, inferiority complex, superiority
complex, faulty beliefs
Common Adlerian Techniques CORRECT ANSWERS
Exploration of the family constellation
Reporting of the earliest recollections
Confronting faulty beliefs to encourage client responsibility
Push-button technique (to interrupt a depression and help clients
become aware of their role in maintaining or creating their
unpleasant feelings).
Acting as if
Encouragement as the most powerful method to change a
person's beliefs (builds confidence and courage)
Exploration of social dynamics
Task-setting
Therapeutic contract goals (to reach goals more easily)
Re-education: A search for different ways of coping with certain
situations
Aversive counterconditioning CORRECT ANSWERS
Behavioral therapy
, A counterconditioning technique in which an aversive or
noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus with the undesirable
behavior (e.g., alcohol)
Chaining CORRECT ANSWERS in operant conditioning,
combining the steps of a sequence to progress toward a final
action
flooding CORRECT ANSWERS a treatment for phobias in
which clients are exposed repeatedly and intensively to a feared
object and made to see that it is actually harmless
Shaping CORRECT ANSWERS an operant conditioning
procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and
closer approximations of the desired behavior
Common Behavioral Therapy Techniques CORRECT
ANSWERS Role playing and rehearsal
Systematic desensitization
Physiological recording (e.g., cardiac)
Behavior modification
Assertiveness and social skills training
Self-control procedures (biofeedback, progressive relaxation)
Token economy
Exam 2025/2026 With 100% Correct
Answers
sensate focus CORRECT ANSWERS a form of sex therapy that
involves graduated touching exercises
Assessment of ones life by listing significant accomplishments
CORRECT ANSWERS Long term existential process suited for
someone looking for greater fulfillment and meaning in life
Adlerian CORRECT ANSWERS Emphasizes uniqueness of the
individual.
Encourage development of self-understanding and help make
new choices that reinforce new insights
Challenge client's faulty notions
The goal of Adlerian Therapy is to challenge and encourage the
client's premises and goals, to encourage goals that are useful
socially, and to help the client feel equal.
Main aim: Make diff. in client's attitude and behavior
Contributing to society and other people is seen as an important
process in Adlerian therapy as it increases clients' social
involvement.
,Psychopathology -> when individual develops inappropriate
coping strategies to overcompensate for feelings or inferiority
developed during childhood
Important concepts: birth order, inferiority complex, superiority
complex, faulty beliefs
Common Adlerian Techniques CORRECT ANSWERS
Exploration of the family constellation
Reporting of the earliest recollections
Confronting faulty beliefs to encourage client responsibility
Push-button technique (to interrupt a depression and help clients
become aware of their role in maintaining or creating their
unpleasant feelings).
Acting as if
Encouragement as the most powerful method to change a
person's beliefs (builds confidence and courage)
Exploration of social dynamics
Task-setting
Therapeutic contract goals (to reach goals more easily)
Re-education: A search for different ways of coping with certain
situations
Aversive counterconditioning CORRECT ANSWERS
Behavioral therapy
, A counterconditioning technique in which an aversive or
noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus with the undesirable
behavior (e.g., alcohol)
Chaining CORRECT ANSWERS in operant conditioning,
combining the steps of a sequence to progress toward a final
action
flooding CORRECT ANSWERS a treatment for phobias in
which clients are exposed repeatedly and intensively to a feared
object and made to see that it is actually harmless
Shaping CORRECT ANSWERS an operant conditioning
procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and
closer approximations of the desired behavior
Common Behavioral Therapy Techniques CORRECT
ANSWERS Role playing and rehearsal
Systematic desensitization
Physiological recording (e.g., cardiac)
Behavior modification
Assertiveness and social skills training
Self-control procedures (biofeedback, progressive relaxation)
Token economy
