Group Psychotherapy — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Average intelligence is a _______ factor for a person undergoing psychoanalysis.

Answer: Favourable

Extra: Favourable factors for psychoanalysis (Selection Criteria): - High motivation - Capacity for insight (psychological mindedness) - Strong ego strength - Average or above-average intelligence - Ability to tolerate frustration and anxiety - Absence of severe personality disorders (though this is debated)

Flashcard 2: _____ therapy is a recommended psychotherapy modality for managing PTSD

Answer: Exposure

Flashcard 3: _____ involves bringing repressed memories and feelings to the surface and resolving unconscious conflicts through understanding

Answer: Psychoanalysis

Flashcard 4: Awareness of not feeling alone about one's condition is called _____

Answer: Universalization

Flashcard 5: An unconscious memory or thought can reach consciousness by overcoming the barrier of repression during _____ or free association

Answer: sleep

Flashcard 6: Treatment of functional aphonia is _____ and psychotherapy.

Answer: reassurance

Flashcard 7: "If it's true in one case, it applies to any case that is even slightly similar" demonstrates the maladaptive assumption of _____

Answer: overgeneralizing

Flashcard 8: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing involves inducing _____ when a person is imagining about an anxiety producing event.

Answer: saccades

Flashcard 9: "If it has been true in the past, it's always going to be true." demonstrates the maladaptive assumption of _____

Answer: temporal causality

Flashcard 10: _____ exposure typically involves having the patient close their eyes and imagine feared stimuli.

Answer: Imaginal