PSYCH 383 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gestalt Therapy, Unconditional Positive Regard, Therapeutic Relationship

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 383
• Professor: Constantino Michael

Document Summary

Theory & practice of counseling & psychotherapy (psych 383) exam 2 study. Lecture slides (***moderate relative emphasis on material covered in class) Wedding & corsini (w&c) chapters 3, 8, & 9 (***only material pertaining to central theoretical concepts) Video clips (***only material pertaining to central theoretical concepts) Understand main tenets of rogerian person-centered therapy personality theory; conceptualization of health & pathology; theory of psychotherapy & key therapeutic contents & processes. Individuals have creative powers to shape their own phenomenological world. Personality as process: fluid, constantly evolving; moment-to- moment living and learning; growth potential, creativity, and future orientation. Actualizing tendency: movement toward realization of one"s full potential; no universally correct way of being. Healthy self-concept= congruence between perceived (experienced) self and ideal (valued) self. Assumption that patients can be trusted to make their own therapeutic decisions. Individual has capacity to understand what is causing him pain and the tendency to reorganize himself in direction of self-actualization to promote greater internal comfort.