ROSE (Relational, Occupational, Social, Educational)
Evaluates a client's functioning across key areas (interpersonal relationships, work, social connections, and educational pursuits) of their life.
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| Term | Definition |
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ROSE (Relational, Occupational, Social, Educational) | Evaluates a client's functioning across key areas (interpersonal relationships, work, social connections, and educational pursuits) of their life. |
Reality Therapy | Individuals have control over their actions and taking responsibility for those actions is essential for achieving meaningful change.
- Focus: Personal responsibility and client's power of control. |
Critical Component of Treatment Plan... | Directly addresses present actions and consequences. It affects the client's current situation and ability to cope. |
Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) | Understsanding the client's culture and background in order to effectively provide the most helpful services. How does their cultural identity, values, and social context affect their mental health issues? |
Exploring Exceptions to Problematic Behavior... | Highlighting client's strengths reinforces the idea that the client has capacity for change. |
Establishing a Strong Therapeutic Alliance with a Client Mistrusting of Therapy and Stigma Around Counseling... | Adopt a client-centered approach and use motivational interviewing techniques. |
Effective Impulse Control Intervention | Addresses both cognitive triggers and behavioral responses through skill development and practice opportunities. |
Solution-Focused Measurement | Emphasizes client-defined progress toward preferred outcomes rather than problem-focused assessments, using scaling and other client-centered measures to demonstrate movement toward goals and desired futures rather than deficit reduction. |
Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) | Self-report questionnaire designed to measure relationship satisfaction in intimate couples. |
Trauma Assessment | Requires evaluation of multiple symptom domains and functional impact. |
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | Predominant Feature: Intrusive re-experiencing of the traumatic event itself.
Centers on: Trauma Distress. |
Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) | Predominant Feature: Persistent yearning/longing for the deceased.
Centers on: Separation Distress |
Person-Centered Therapy | Creates foundation needed for later trauma work. Focuses on the client, not presenting problem. |
Window of Tolerance | The zone where a client can process emotions without becoming overwhelmed (Hyperarousal) or shut down (Hypoarousal). |
Trauma-Informed Approach | Prioritizes creating a safe and supportive environment. |
Brief Psychotic Disorder | It is fundamentally a time-limited condition. Once a acute episode resolves and the client returns to premorbid functioning, they no longer meet the diagnostic criteria. |
In a Solution-Focused Approach... | Therapists emphasizes clients' strengths and progress to foster positive change. |
Differential Diagnosis for Adjustment Disorder... | Acute Stress Disorder |
To Diagnose Generalized Anxiety Disorder... | Symptoms must be present for more days than not for at least six months. |
Session Rating Scale (SRS) | Provides a valid and reliable measure of the therapeutic alliance. Completed at the end of each session by the client. |
Avoidant Personality Disorder | Pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequency, and extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation that begins in early adulthood and occurs in various contexts. |
Object Relations Theory | Psychodynamic Framework. Examines how early relationships shape one's ability to connect with others. |
Persistent Depressive Disorder (PDD) | Requires depressive symptoms to be present for at least 2 years with no more than two months of symptom remission. |
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) | Can be diagnosed after two weeks of symptoms. |
Key Diagnostic Criterion that Distinguishes MDD from PDD? | Duration |
When Evaluating Suicide Risk... | Protective factors carry more clinical weight than risk factors in determining acute risk level. |
Gestalt Therapy | Fundamental Principle: Increasing awareness through present-moment experience.
Increases self-awareness and contact with current experience.
IMMEDIATE AWARENESS. |
When Answering Clincial Judgement Questions... | Always prioritize the therapeutic process over rigid factual accuracy. |
Sublimation | Process of taking an unacceptable impulse and converting it into a socially acceptable form of expression. |
When Answering Questions on De-escalation Techniques... | Focus on interventions that maintain therapeutic momentum while reducing emotional intensity. |
Empathic Attunement | Helps clients feel understood, reduce defensiveness, and fosters self-reflection. Therapist understands and resonates with a client's emotions, thoughts, and experiences. |
When Determining the Appropriate Level of Care... | Choose the least intensive intervention that can effectively address the client's needs unless there is a clear and urgent reason for higher levels of care. |
When Choosing what to Assess, Prioritize... | Presenting symptoms, known risk factors, and relevance to treatment. |
When Evaluating Self-Harm Risk Factors... | Prioritize immediate, internal predictors like hopelessness, strongest indicator of acute risk. |
Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (MAST) | Comprehensive assessment of the client's alcohol use, its severity, and its impact on their life. |
Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) | Helps clients form their own goals and reasons for change. Client-centered and non-confrontational. |
Relapse Prevention Plans | Focus on specific, actionable, and client-centered strategies that address the client's unique triggers and circumstances. |
Exposure and Responsive Prevention (ERP) | Used to treat OCD and anxiety disorders. Gradually exposes clients to feared stimuli while preventing compulsive responses. |
Socratic Dialogue | Open-ended, thought provoking questions to encourage self-reflection, critical thinking, and deeper understanding. |
Logotherapy | Focuses on helping individuals find meaning in their lives. Values awareness exercises. |
Values Awareness Exercises | Helps clients identify, prioritize, and live life according to their own beliefs and values. |
Short-Term Goal | Sets a specific timeframe, has measurable outcomes, focuses on building awareness, and directly addresses presenting problems. |
Key Differentiator Between Bulimia Nervosa and Anorexia Nervosa, Binge-Eating/Purging Type is... | Body Weight |
Anorexia Nervosa | Requires significantly low weight |
Bulimia Nervosa | Maintain a normal or above normal weight range |
REBT | Focused on philosophical change and challenging irrational beliefs. |
Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptoms Measure | Screening tool designed to gauge a range of potential mental health symptoms across multiple diagnostic domains |
Displacement | Redirects desire for something and support onto something else instead of seeking it from more accessible sources |
Aaron Beck's Cognitive Theory | Clarifying main problems. Uses socratic dialogue to ask clients probing questions to clarify their presenting problems |
Key Symptom of Histrionic Personality Disorder | Exhibiting excessive attention-seeking behavior |
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) | Measures psychotic and nonpsychotic symptoms |
Solution-Focused Therapy | Emphasizes future possibilities over present or past experiences. Temporal markers (e.g., 6 months from now) |
Push-Button Alderian Technique | Helps client see they are responsible for how they feel, both good and bad feelings |
Correlation | Measure of the relationship between two variables |
Minimum Length of time that Symtpoms Must be Present to Meet Diagnostic Criteria for MDD? | Two weeks |
World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS 2.0) | Measures functioning across multiple domains such as cognition, mobility, self-care, and social participation. Assesses impact of health condition on daily life |
When is "With Delayed Expression" Appropriate to Specify with a Diagnosis of PTSD? | When diagnostic criteria are not met until at least 6 months after the traumatic event |
Systematic Desensitization | Client is gradually exposed to the feared situation and understands that the feared outcome does not materialize |
Agoraphobic Cognitions Questionnaire (ACQ) | Measurement that screens for faulty cognitions about potential consequences of panic and anxiety. 2 subscales: Loss of Control and Physical Concerns |
Gestalt Approach: "Take the Part of" | Having the client become each element of a dream |
Cognitive Processing Therapy | Focuses on helping the client learn how to identify and modify automatic thoughts that may be contributing to the client's symptoms |
Paradox Technique: Reality Therapy | Clients are prompted to think differently and confront their own resistance. Helps highlight current behaviors that are not serving them |
Confrontation Technique: Reality Therapy | Clients are encouraged to recognize their own role in their issues and to take responsibility for making changes. Highlights how their current behaviors are not serving them |
Variable Ratio Intermittent Reinforcement | Effective schedule to reinforce a behavior. Results in high, steady rates of responding |
Reflection | Accomplishes validation the client needs when it comes to their feelings |
Congruence | Focuses on creating a genuine connection between the counselor and client |
Four Horseman of the Apocolypse | Criticism, Defensiveness, Contempt, Stonewalling |
In Partial Remission (ADHD) | Full criteria for the disorder has not been met for 6 months but functional impairement still exists. |
Auditory Continuous Performance Test | Determines ADD/ADHD by assessing auditory attention deficit |
Separation Anxiety Disorder... | Often precipitated by a significant life change such as moving, death of a loved one, divorce, and becoming a parent |
Children's Depression Inventory-2 (CDI-2) | Ages 7-17, Determines severity of depressive symptoms and helps develop a treatment plan |
-0.98 | Strongest. Indicates a negative relationship between the effectiveness of the treatment and the communication skill techniques you are using |
Regression | Defense mechanism in which an individual reverts to behavior from an earlier stage of development in order to cope with stressful situations |
Coping Question | Underscores the client's personal resources that they are not acknowledging. Helps clients recognize coping skills they already use in situations |
Differential Diagnosis for Opioid Intoxication | Alcohol Intoxication |
Alcohol Intoxication | Involves the presence of clinically significant, problematic behavioral or psychological changes that develop during or shortly after alcohol use |
Multidimensional Anxiety Questionnaire (MAQ) | Used to assess symptoms of anxiety |
Preparation Stage in Model of Behavior Change | The client has committed to making changes. They are trying to find resources that may help assist them in an attempt to change detrimental behavior |
Final Stage in Group Therapy | Members review what they have learned and practice how to apply what they have learned in everyday life |
Before Agreeing or Declining Bartering Arrangements... | Review agency's policies regarding payment options |
Preferences Section of CFI | Addresses the help the client needs by asking the client what kinds of help would be most useful to them at this time or their problem |
Internal State Scale (ISS) | Self-report instrument used to differentiate between mood states in clients who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder |
Rationalization | Putting something into a different light or offering a different explanation for one's perceptions/behaviors in the face of changing reality |
Psychodynamic Therapy | Understanding how unconscious processes, such as transference and projection, can contribute to psychological distress |
How to Differentiate Between Acute Stress Disorder and PTSD? | The time of onset and the duration |
Duration Criteria Required to Diagnose Adjustment Disorder | Symptoms occur within 3 months of the onset of a stressor; once the stressor/consequence of the stressor are removed, symptoms do not persist beyond 6 months. |
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) | Produces valid confirmation for Avoidant Personality Disorder |
Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5-TR (CAPS-5) | Semi-structured interview for assessing PTSD and how symptoms are currently impacting a client's life. |
Holland's Theory: Investigative Personality Type | Someone who prefers systematic yet creative tasks and activities where they can use their intelligence to solve problems |
To Assess Mental Health Functioning in an Adult... | Look for choices that would reveal how well the patient performs roles related to work, family, and social situations |
Hallmark Symtpoms of Depression | Sleep Disturbance |