EPPP Clinical Psychology Exam Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2025) Verified Answers
- steps in Psychoanalysis - Correct Answers ✅1.
Confrontation: Help clients see their behaviors that have
been hidden from them and their possible causes.
2. Clarification: Bring those behaviors into sharper focus by
honing in on the most important details.
3. Interpretation: Directly connecting conscious behaviors to
unconscious processes
4. Working through: results from repeatedly interpreting and
having catharsis, leads to a gradual process where people gain new insights.Adler's Individual Psychology - Correct Answers ✅We are motivated by our goals in life rather than by unconscious forces. We are also motivated by feelings of inferiority which leads to striving for superiority Style of Life (Adler) - Correct Answers ✅specific ways person compensates for inferiority & to achieve superiority object constancy - Correct Answers ✅the development of mental representations (introjects) of the self and objects that allow the individual to value an object for reasons other than its ability to satisfy the individual's needs. 1 / 4
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- Stages of Object Constancy - Correct Answers ✅1.
Normal Autistic stage: happens in the first few weeks of life,
infants are totally unaware of their external environment.
2. Normal Symbiotic Stage: Infants become aware of external
environment but cant differentiate (separate) themselves from their caregiver
3. Separation individuation: begins at 5 months and
continues until the child is 3 years old. Consists of 4 substages where object constancy gradually develops
- Differentiation
- Practicing
- Rapproachment
- Beginning of object constancy
Gestalt Therapy - Correct Answers ✅People are motivated by maintain homeostasis, which is disrupted by unmet needs.They seek to obtain something from the environment to meet those needs. Maladjustment results from boundary disturbances.Gestalt boundary disturbances - Correct Answers ✅1.
Introjection (swallowing up): People adopt others
perspectives and beliefs without questioning them.
2. Projection: People project out undesirable things onto other
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3. Retroflection: people do to themselves what they want to
do to others, like cutting.
4. Deflection: People avoid contact with the environment
5. Confluence: When people blur the distinction between
themselves and others.Gestalt Therapy techniques - Correct Answers ✅All about gaining AWARENESS. Empty chair technique, dreamwork, or to resolved "unfinished business" with a significant person in their life. Help them distinguish between their. Help them distinguish between transference fantasy vs. reality.Existensial Therapy 4 areas of disturbance - Correct Answers ✅§ Death § Freedom § Isolation § Meaningless Two Types of Anxiety (existential Therapy) - Correct Answers ✅1) Normal (existential anxiety) related to legitimate objective threats. Does NOT involve repression And 2) Neurotic anxiety, disproportionate, involves repression.Neurotic anxiety keeps people from reaching their full potential 3 / 4
EPPP Clinical Psychology Exam Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2025) Verified Answers Reality Therapy (Glasser)- 5 basic needs - Correct Answers ✅Based on Choice theory. People have 5 basic innate needs.How they meet these needs determines if they have a success or failure identity
- Love and belonging
- Power
- Fun
- Freedom
- Survival
Wubboldings WDEP system - Correct Answers ✅Strategy for getting someone to adopt a success identity. Ask about Wants and Needs See what they are Doing to foster awareness of behaviors Encourage clients to Evaluate his/her own behaviors, and Help them create a Plan of action Seligmann's PERMA model - Correct Answers ✅describes the 5 essential elements of well-being (positive psychology)
Positive Emotions: experiencing pleasure, hope, gratitude,
love and other positive emotions
Engagement: Refers to being truly engaged, characterized by
Flow- total Relationships
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