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ASWB LCSW Exam Prep, Top Exam Questions with accurate answers, 100% Accurate, graded A+ Theories - ✔✔-Are general explanations supported by evidence obtained through the scientific method. P ... sychoanalytic Theory - ✔✔-Sigmund Freud Client is a product of his past Treatment involves dealing with repressed material in the unconscious Personalities arise because of attempts to resolve conflicts between the unconscious sexual and aggressive impulses and social demands to restrain these impulses 3 Levels of Awareness - ✔✔-Preconscious, Conscious, Unconscious Preconscious (3 Levels of Awareness) - ✔✔-Info outside of the client's attention but available and easy to bring to consciousness. Conscious (3 Levels of Awareness) - ✔✔-Info the client is paying attention to at any given time. Unconscious (3 Levels of Awareness) - ✔✔-Thoughts, feelings, desires and memories of which a client has no awareness but that influences every aspect of their day-to-day lives. 3 Components of Personalities - ✔✔-Id, Ego, Superego Id (3 Components of Personalities) - ✔✔-Instinctual energy, biological urges, impulses toward survival, sex and aggression. Unconscious. Pleasure principle - the drive to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. Ego (3 Components of Personalities) - ✔✔-Manages conflict between Id and the real world. Has unconscious, preconscious or conscious parts. Reality principle - the awareness that gratification of impulses has to be delayed in order to accommodate the demands of the real world. Role is to prevent the Id from gratifying its impulses in socially inappropriate ways. Ego-Syntonic/Ego-Dystonic: Syntonic - behaviors "insync" with ego (no guilt) Dystonic - behaviors "dis n sync" with ego (guilty) Determine best course of action based on info from id, reality, and the superego. Inability to reconcile the demands of the Id, reality and superego produces conflict that leads to a state of psychic distress known as anxiety. Ego strength - ability to deal with demands of id, reality and superego. Superego (3 Components of Personalities) - ✔✔-The moral component of personality, learned from parents and society, causes clients to feel guilty. Psychosexual Stages of Development - ✔✔-Freud believed there to be five stages of psychosexual development: Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent and Genital. At each of these stages, pleasure is focused on a particular part of the body. Too much or too little pleasure in any one of these stages caused a fixation which would lead to personality or psychological disorders. For example, too much pleasure in the phallic stage could lead to obsessive masturbation and sexual dysfunction as an adult. Oral (Stage of Development) - ✔✔-Birth-12 months Pleasure centers on mouth; sucking, biting, chewing. If not satisfied result is excessive smoking, overeating, or dependence on others. Anal (Stage of Development) - ✔✔-Age 2 (during toilet training) Pleasure centers on Bowel movements. If not satisfied result is an overly controlling (anal-retentive) personality or an easily angered (analexpulsive) personality. Phallic (Stage of Development) - ✔✔-Age 3 to 5 Pleasure centers on Genitals. If not satisfied result is Guilt or anxiety about sex. Latency (Stage of Development) - ✔✔-Age 5 to Puberty Pleasure centers on Sexuality is latent, or dormant, during this period. No fixations at this stage. Genital (Stage of Development) - ✔✔-Begins at puberty Pleasure centers on The genitals; sexual urges return. No fixations at this stage. Fixation - ✔✔-Is an inability to progress normally from one stage into another. Oedipus complex - ✔✔-A male child's sexual desire for his mother and hostility toward his father. Castration anxiety - ✔✔-Fear of penis being cut off, child accepts father and authority results in superego. Primary techniques used in psychoanalytic psychotherapy - ✔✔-analysis of dreams, resistances, transferences, and free associations Individual Psychology - ✔✔-Alfred Adler's view that people are motivated by purposes and goals and that perfection, not pleasure, is thus the key motivator in human life. Compensation - ✔✔-Attempt to shed normal feelings of inferiority. Inferiority - ✔✔-Overcompensate, try to cover up their sense of inferiority by focusing on outward signs of superiority such as status, wealth and power. Aim of Individual Psychology (Alfred Adler) - ✔✔-To develop a more adaptive lifestyle by overcoming feelings of inferiority and self centeredness and to contribute more toward the welfare of others. Self Psychology - ✔✔-Based on central organizing and motivating force in personality, three self object needs: mirroring, idealization, twinship/Twinning Mirroring (3 self object needs) - ✔✔-Validates the child's sense of a perfect self. Idealization (3 self object needs) - ✔✔-Child borrows strength from others and identifies with someone more capable. Twinship/Twinning (3 self object needs) - ✔✔-Child needs an alter ego for a sense of belonging. Ego Psychology - ✔✔-Based on an assessment of a client as presented in the present (here and now) focuses on the rational, conscious processes of the ego. The goal is to maintain and enhance the ego's control and management of stress and its effects. Psychosocial Stages of Development - ✔✔-Erik Erikson Focus on how children socialize and how this affects their sense of self. 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development (Erik Erikson) - ✔✔-Trust vs. Mistrust Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt Initiative vs. Guilt Industry vs. Inferiority Identity vs. Role Confusion Intimacy vs. Isolation Generativity vs. Stagnation Ego Integrity vs. Despair Trust vs. Mistrust (8 Stages of Psychosocial Development) - ✔✔-Birth to 1 year Trust based upon consistency of caregiver. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (8 Stages of Psychosocial Development) - ✔✔-Age 1 to 3 Child asserts their independence, walks away from caregiver, picks likes and dislikes. Initiative vs. Guilt (8 Stages of Psychosocial Development) - ✔✔-Age 3 to 6 Child asserts self more frequently. Industry vs. Inferiority (8 Stages of Psychosocial Development) - ✔✔-Age 6 to Puberty Child develops a sense of pride in their accomplishments. Identity vs. Role Confusion (8 Stages of Psychosocial Development) - ✔✔-Adolescence Transition from childhood to adulthood. Child begins to look at the future in terms of career, relationships, families, housing etc. Intimacy vs. Isolation (8 Stages of Psychosocial Development) - ✔✔-Young Adulthood Child begins to share themselves intimately with others and explores relationships. Generativity vs. Stagnation (8 Stages of Psychosocial Development) - ✔✔-Middle Adulthood Child establishes career, settles down begins family develops a sense of being a part of the bigger picture. Ego Integrity vs. Despair (8 Stages of Psychosocial Development) - ✔✔-Senior Citizens Slow down, explore life as a retired person. Object Relations Theory - ✔✔-Margaret Mahler Lifelong relationship skills are strongly rooted in early attachments with parents, especially mothers. Objects refer to people, parts of people, or physical items that symbolically represent either a person or part of a person. Normal Autism (Phases of Object Relations) - ✔✔-0-1 month Infant is detached and self-absorbed. Spends most time sleeping. Normal Symbiotic (Phases of Object Relations) - ✔✔-1-5 months Child is aware of mother. No individuality, the child and mother are one. Separation/Individuation (Phases of Object Relations) - ✔✔-Subphase Differentiation/Hatching 5-9 months Aware of difference between self and mother. Increased alertness and interest in the world. Child uses mother as a point of orientation. Practicing (Phases of Object Relations) - ✔✔-9-15 months Crawl and walk freely. Child explores and becomes more distant from the mother. Experiences self still as one with mother. Rapprochement (Phases of Object Relations) - ✔✔-15-24 months Child becomes once again close to mother. Awareness of phsycial mobility = psychic separateness from mother. Toddler is tentative, wants mother in sight. Object Constancy (Phases of Object Relations) - ✔✔-24-38 months Child understands mother has a separate identity and is truly a separate individual. Cognitive Development - ✔✔-study of how children acquire the ability to learn, think, reason, communicate, and remember Sensorimotor (Stage of Cognitive Development) - ✔✔-0-2 yrs; the stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and [Show More]

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