Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy

Study lessons

1. 1

   The Counseling Process, Relationship, and Core Skills

   The stages a counseling case moves through, the working alliance that carries the change, how transference and countertransference show up, the micro-skills that build every session, and how to set goals and terminate well.

   15 min
2. 2

   Psychodynamic and Humanistic Therapies

   How psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapy make the unconscious conscious, how person-centered therapy heals through the core conditions, and how Gestalt and existential therapy work in the here-and-now with awareness, choice, and meaning.

   15 min
3. 3

   Cognitive Behavioral and Behavioral Therapies

   The behavioral techniques from systematic desensitization to token economies, Ellis' REBT ABC model, Beck's cognitive therapy and its distortions, and the third-wave mindfulness approaches of ACT and DBT.

   15 min
4. 4

   Group, Family, and Systems Approaches

   Yalom's therapeutic factors and the stages of group therapy, the major family systems models from Bowen to Minuchin to the strategic and communication schools, and how couples work reads the patterns between partners.

   15 min
5. 5

   Crisis Intervention, Ethics, and RA 10029 Practice

   How to run a crisis with safety and suicide risk first, the core ethical duties of informed consent, confidentiality and its limits, competence and multiple relationships, the PAP Code principles, and what RA 10029 sets for the practice of psychology in the Philippines.

   15 min

Section practice test

3 test sets covering the whole Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy section, 90 original questions with explanations. After you finish the lessons above, prove it here. Randomized every run.