Psychology 2075 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Cognitive Therapy, T-Groups, Automatic Negative Thoughts
28 Aug 2018
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Modern Psychodynamic Therapies
- classical psychoanalysis as done by Freud is not widely practiced anymore
- many found it necessary to adapt psychoanalysis to different cultures, changing times,
and new kinds of patients
- The variations of Freud’s original approach are collectively known as psychodynamic
approaches to therapy.
Client Centered Therapy
- Using a humanistic perspective, Carl Rogers devised client centered therapy
- Client-centered therapy is an insight therapy that emphasizes providing a supportive
emotional climate for clients, who play a major role in determining the pace and direction
of their therapy
- Rogers maintains that most personal distress is due to inconsistency, or “incongruence,”
between a person’s life concept and reality.
- Incongruence makes people feel threatened by realistic feedback about themselves from
others.
- Client-centered therapists stalk insights that are quite different from the repressed
conflicts that psychoanalysts go after
- Client centered therapists help clients to realize that they do not have to worry constantly
about pleasing others and winning acceptance.
Therapeutic Climate
- According to Rogers, the process of therapy is not as important as the emotional climate
in which the therapy takes place
- Client centered therapists must provide three conditions
- Genuiness. The therapist must be genuine with the client, communicating honestly and
spontaneously.
- Unconditional Positive regard. The therapist should provide warmth and caring for the
client, with no strings attached.
- Empathy. This means that the therapist must understand the client’s world from the
client’s point of view.
Therapeutic Process
- The therapist’s key task is clarification.
- Client-centered therapists try to function like a human mirror, reflecting statements back
to their clients, but with enhanced clarity.
Document Summary
Classical psychoanalysis as done by freud is not widely practiced anymore. Many found it necessary to adapt psychoanalysis to different cultures, changing times, and new kinds of patients. The variations of freud"s original approach are collectively known as psychodynamic approaches to therapy. Using a humanistic perspective, carl rogers devised client centered therapy. Client-centered therapy is an insight therapy that emphasizes providing a supportive emotional climate for clients, who play a major role in determining the pace and direction of their therapy. Rogers maintains that most personal distress is due to inconsistency, or (cid:498)incongruence,(cid:499) between a person"s life concept and reality. Incongruence makes people feel threatened by realistic feedback about themselves from others. Client-centered therapists stalk insights that are quite different from the repressed conflicts that psychoanalysts go after. Client centered therapists help clients to realize that they do not have to worry constantly about pleasing others and winning acceptance.
