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| : Combine the best features with other models you find most appealing. Putting together common elements, combine theories into a single approach, practice technical eclecticism- integration of several techniques into one framework, compile manuals of symptom-specific treatments. |
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1.Importance on promoting understanding
a. Psychoanalytic
b. Existential
c. Client-centered
2.Stressing Action
a. Strategic
b. Behavioral
c. Problem-solving
d. Brief therapy |
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1.Intellectual
a. Cognitive
b. Existential
c. Constructivist
d. Psychoanalytic
2.Emphasis on thoughts and feelings
a. Client centered
b. Gestalt
c. Expressive therapies |
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1. Past: psychoanalytic
2. Present: behavioral, reality, strategic, gestalt, client-centered |
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1. Rigid: Psychoanalyst, client-centered, behavioral, rational-emotive
2. Flexible: Existential, gestalt, strategic, eclectic, integrative |
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| : Who you are is the most important thing you do. Clients find it most helpful when therapists are understanding, caring, and supportive |
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| Placebo effect & positive expectations |
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| : Therapist’s positive expectations for a cure can be just like giving a sugar pill. If you believe strongly that what you are doing is going to help your clients, and you are persuasive in convincing them that this is the case, then almost whatever you do within reason may be useful. |
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| : Therapist is honest, sincere, straightforward. Provide accurate, clear, and non-threatening reactions to what we observe. Each theory does this in a slightly different way. |
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| : Clients are placed in an altered state of consciousness where they are more easily influenced. “Hypersuggestible;” may have much less resistance. |
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| : Therapist is honest, sincere, straightforward. Provide accurate, clear, and non-threatening reactions to what we observe. Each theory does this in a slightly different way. |
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| : Can’t help searching for answers. All theories will eventually encourage client to ponder meaning. Therapist facilitates insight. |
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| : Clients need opportunities to practice new ways of behaving and being. Role-playing; explicit or implicit homework assignments |
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| : A consistent presence throughout the experience. Be who you want your clients to be. |
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