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- Opposite action involves behaving____to the urge provoked by a strong emotion
- A client is trying to quit smoking, and they notice that whenever they have a craving to smoke, they try to distract themselves to avoid thinking about the craving. What might you share with them about the consequences of experiential avoidance?
- Social _____ is the number and quality of ones social relationships.
- _____ interventions help people at high risk for a particular disease make changes to their behavior, such as quitting smoking, adhering to medication instructions, eating healthier and exercising more, and attending medical check-ups.
- A client expresses that they are feeling sad after not getting a promotion at work. The therapist replies, "you are feeling disappointed as the promotion was something you were really hoping for." This is an example of _____.
- When working with a couple whose cultural norms may be different from one another, which of these is NOT important to consider?
- A couple is struggling with excessive arguing. The therapist tells the couple to go home and fight for a certain number of hours each day. What is this an example of?
- Paradoxical interventions are therapeutic techniques that aim to create change by encouraging clients to engage in behaviors that are opposite to their problem or desired outcome.
- Paradoxical intervention is best used with clients who are '_______' or '______' as the therapist will tell the client to do more of what they are doing
- The identified patient - also called the ____?____ in systems therapy - may display unexplainable emotional or physical symptoms, and is often the first person to seek help, perhaps at the request of the family. S/he is the one who carries the evidence of the familial dysfunction.
- A group therapist asks a client who sees herself as unable to set limits to look intently at each group member in turn and firmly say 'No.' What is the name of this technique?
- Within a family, any action by one member affects all other members and the family as a whole; each member response in turn prompts other responses that affect all other members, whose further reactions provoke still other responses, and so forth. such a reverberating effect in turn affects the first person in a continuous series of ____?____ or recurring chains of influence.
- An intelligent son, failing in school, is told by her therapist to continue to fail so that his less well-educated father can feel good about himself. Among the following, which one is an effect that could be obtained by such a Paradoxical Directive?
- The figure-formation process is intertwined with the principle of __________ ____-__________.
- __________ is the reverse of introjection.
- Gestalt therapists pay attention to and explore what is occurring at the boundary between the ______ and the ___________.
- In Gestalt therapy, _______ is necessary if change and growth are to occur.
- Blocked energy is a form of _________ behavior.
- When ______ is blocked, it may result in unfinished business.
- What are the three stages in the integration sequence that characterizes client growth in therapy?