Describe two of the therapeutic implications of Hermeneutic Phenomenology.
What will be an ideal response?
One implication is that a person’s presenting symptoms are never a matter of intrapsychic process alone; they are always contextual and multisystemic in nature. A second is that how a person perceives and interprets what is going on depends on location in the situation; any situation can have multiple perspectives (i.e., the client’s experience can be seen from many perspectives).
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A. disorganized attached B. avoidantly attached C. anxious-ambivalently attachment D. secure attachment
Splitting is a way of evaluating relationships that result in viewing object representations as:
A. all good or all bad B. predictable or unpredictiable C. internalized or externalized D. interlocking pathologies
Life roles are identified by which one of the following career theorists?
a. Super b. Krumboltz c. Roe d. Gottfredson
Attempts to determine alcoholic personalities through the use of tests have been problematic because
a. alcoholics have a variety of different problems, and their personalities resemble those of schizophrenics. b. the medical model and AA do not believe in alcoholic personalities, only the disease of alcoholism. c. the alcoholic may have very different personality profiles pre- and post-detoxification. d. all of the above are problematic.