PSYC 360 Study Guide - Final Guide: Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Polka, Metaphor
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Mental status examination: snapshot of patient to get to know them. In cognitive model, important for clients to understand connection between cognitions, behaviors, and emotions must buy into this model. Schema: mental way of filtering and organizing information. Arbitrary inference: drawing conclusion w/out evidence or in face of contradictory evidence. Selective abstraction: bringing something out of context bird poop on new car, freaking out and saying rest of day will be awful. Overgeneralization: single negative event viewed as a never ending pattern defeat. Personalization: assuming responsibility for something which you are not responsible. Dichotomous thinking: black or white thinking, ignoring shades of grey. Mind-reading: you assume someone is thinking someone (usually something negative about yourself) Fortune-telling error: you create a negative self-fulfilling prophecyfeared consequence you seek to avoid is more likely to occur. Emotional reasoning: you assume your negative feelings result from something negative happening. Labelling and mislabelling: putting a global label on a person instead of on their action.
