Midterm

Question 1

Repression

Answer 1

Unconsciously stuffing the emotion out of conscious awareness
Ex: I didnt feel bad but now I have this HA and I don’t know why

Question 2

Reaction formation

Answer 2

Forgetting the negative emotion by transforming it into its opposite
Ex: she’s really a wonderful person (forgetting that he’s angry and it would be healthy to cease contact)

Question 3

Displacement

Answer 3

Displacing the emotion from its original object to something or someone else - redirecting emotions to a safer target
Ex: my boss had been under my skin (yelling at husband and kids)

Question 4

Rationalization

Answer 4

Inventing a convincing, false reason why you are not bothered
Ex: this is the boost I need to do what I want to do (grieving divorce and reluctant to face pain)

Question 5

Dissociation

Answer 5

I was spaced out, my memory of him leaving is hazy

Question 6

Projection

Answer 6

I’m convinced since he left me he’s badmouthing me to his friends

Question 7

Symptoms for BPD

Answer 7

I DESPAIRR
- identity disturbance
- disordered, unstable affect
- emptiness
- suicidal behavior, gestures, threats or self harm
- paranoid ideation
- abandonment
- impulsivity
- rage, difficulty controlling anger
- relationships intense and unstable

Question 8

Paranoid PD

Answer 8

SUSPECT (4/7)
- spousal infidelity suspected
- unforgiving
- suspicious of others
- perceives attack
- views everyone as enemy or friend
- confiding in others feared
- threats perceived in benign events

Question 9

Schizoid

Answer 9

DISTANT (4/7)
- detached or flat affect
- indifferent to criticism or praise
- sexual experienced of little interest
- tasks (activities) performed solitarily
- absence of close friends
- neither desires nor enjoys close relations
- takes pleasure in few activities

Question 10

Schizotypal

Answer 10

ME PECULIAR (5/9)
- magical thinking or odd beliefs
- experiences unusual perceptions
- paranoid ideation
- eccentric behavior or appearance
- constructed or inappropriate affect
- unusual thinking and speech
- lacks close friends
- ideas of reference
- anxiety in social situations
- rule out psychotic and autistic disorder

Question 11

Antisocial PD

Question 12

Adlerian Therapy

Answer 12

• birth order
• “feelings of inferiority” related to compensating or overcompensating

Question 13

Choice/Reality Therapy

Answer 13

• behaviors are choices
• attempt to satisfy our needs through behaviors
• interval vs external locus of control
• focus on the present
• solution oriented

Question 14

Existential therapy

Answer 14

the quest for meaning and purpose

Question 15

Family Systems Therapy

Answer 15

• views family as an intricately related unit
• focused on the relationship systems we are placed in and power dynamics which shape our beliefs

Question 16

Feminist therapy

Answer 16

• focuses and bias and discrimination against women
• applies to all genders

Question 17

Gestalt therapy

Answer 17

• focused on the present moment
• create connection in thoughts, feelings and behavior
• explores the whole person
• increases self-awareness

Question 18

postmodern therapy

Answer 18

• we are a product of our experiences
• how past contributes to present

Question 19

Person centered therapy

Answer 19

• client does most of the talking
• therapist is in a supportive role
• clients are the experts in their own lives
• people are motivated to achieve positive psychologically functioning

Question 20

Intepersonal therapy

Answer 20

• improves current concerns and interpersonal relationships
• short term (20 weeks or less)
• helps people adjust how they related to the world
• 4 main domains: grief, role dispute, role transition, interpersonal deficits

Question 21

inability to recognize objects with hands

Answer 21

astereognosis

Question 22

uncontrolled jerking movements

Answer 22

choreiform

Question 23

treatment for perinatal depression

Answer 23

sertraline

Question 24

diagnosis for pressured speech, grandiose thinking, nudity

Answer 24

bipolar

Question 25

neurotransmitter responsible for anhedonia, apathy

Answer 25

dopamine

Question 26

expands on the chief complaint with pertinent positive and negative findings

Answer 26

diagnostic formulation

Question 27

difficulty riding public transportation

Answer 27

agoraphobia

Question 28

tool for assessing suicidality

Answer 28

CASE

Question 29

signs of prodrome schizophrenia

Answer 29

- lack of hygiene - altered interpersonal communication - bizarre beliefs

Question 30

woman is hospitalized for passive suicidal ideation and decides she wants to leave

Answer 30

change status to involuntary

Question 31

If a miracle were to happen and all your problems were to go away, what would be different? Example of what therapy

Answer 31

solution-oriented

Question 32

Bowlby's theory surrounding secure bonds with caregivers

Answer 32

attachment theory

Question 33

curled up in fetal position

Answer 33

regression

Question 34

developmental theories learning about early social relationships

Answer 34

- social learning - attachment

Question 35

person tries to cancel out or remove an unhealthy, destructive or otherwise threatening though or action by engaging in contrary behavior

Answer 35

undoing

Question 36

temporarily putting aside anger to focus on work, distracting oneself from sad thoughts, trying to act calm during conflict, suppressing hunger to concentrate on a task

Answer 36

suppression

Question 37

unconscious psychological defense mechanism involves blocking distressing thoughts, memories or desires from conscious awareness to protect oneself from emotional pain

Answer 37

repression

Question 38

people learn new behaviors, attitudes, and emotional reactions by observing others, rather than through direct experience alone

Answer 38

social learning theory