FBC Quiz #2 Flashcards
Define Insanity/Define Sanity
Insanity//Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.
Sanity//The ability to think and behave in a normal, rational manner. Sound mental health. Reasonable, rational behavior.
Individual paradigms/Psychological set
We have self imposed rules and regulations that establish our personal ways of dealing with life. Paradigms filter all incoming information, sorting out whatever does not fit. Our paradigms have the power to keep us from hearing and seeing what COULD happen.
Can people change? What does 2 Corinthians 5:17 say about this?
YES! Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.[a] The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
What does Kollar say about Faith Based counselors and ministers getting out of the people changing business? Is this good or bad in his mind?
Many ministers do not feel they are qualified to counsel the hurting individuals or families who come for help. A contemporary counselor may focus on all the wrong issues. The question arises, can the church maintain a friendly working relationship with the world of mental health and yet reject any implied notion of subordination? Kollar believes YES! There are limitations of psychological theory as it is not influenced by the capabilities of the Spirit of God ;)
Discuss problem focused counseling
The model or theory a counselor may use that remains centered on the problem. Without realizing you could be reinforcing the problem by making it the primary focus.
Discuss solution focused counseling
The outcomes dictate the process rather than the process dictating the outcome. When we realize the outcome first we become solution focused rather than problem focused.
Remember the details of Ernie’s story
Ernie walked in to the corps Sunday morning emaciated looking, extremely thin, disheveled.
Attentive but not participating.
Accepted an offer for prayer.
Shared his story/ Vietnam vet, lost his home, lost his job, living out of his car…
Wants to work.
Not begging. Not on drugs or alcohol.
Grew up on an Indian Reservation.
Heard a voice say, “come to the Salvation Army”
In Vietnam he knew where he fit, but now he is confused all the time.
Hearing voice say, “watch out, no one likes you, they are all suspicious of you”
Captain got Ernie into a nearby motel.
Ernie was hired to do jobs around the corps.
Ernie is meeting with a counselor.
Ernie felt, extremely unlucky.
Remember the details of William’s story
Nearly died in a terrorist attack in Israel.
He drank to numb himself from the horror that tormented him.
2 years after bombing, ordered by his firm into in-patient program.
Taught the disease model of alcoholism.
Diagnosed with PTSD.
Sober for 5 years and his work performance recovered, marriage improved…
Got into a fight with wife and left home.
Began drinking again and missed work.
Feared he would lose his job and his family and wanted help.
Asked these questions; are you an alcoholic? How are you able to not drink for 5 years if you are an alcoholic?
Jogged to get his mind of things.
Willing to change, willing to get help.
What if a miracle happened over night? Romans 8:28
Envisioning details of better communication with his wife, more respect toward others, more of God’s presence.
On a scale of 1-10 William was a 0 but now a 5.
He acknowledges that focusing on his problem (alcoholic or PTSD) is not helping.
8 early stages to identity (Erikson)
Trust (ages 0-1) Autonomy/Doubt (ages 1-3) Initiative/guilt (3-5) Industry.Inferiority(ages 6-11) Identity/Role Confusion (ages 11-18) Intimacy/Isolation (young adult) Generativity(a concern for guiding the next generation)/Stagnation (middle age) Integrity/Despair(Old age).
How do these relate to the counseling process? Each stage has both a healthy outcome and an unhealthy outcome, and a person on the human journey can get stuck at any point. The describe stages that need to be successfully completed before human personality can move forward in a healthy fashion.
9 foundational assumptions to help CHANGE behaviors
- God is already active in the counselee
- Complex problems do not demand complex solutions.
- Finding exceptions helps create solutions.
- The counselee is always changing.
- The counselee is the expert and defines the goals.
- Solutions are cocreated.
- The counselee is not the problem; the problem is.
- The counseling relationship is positional (attending, blaming, willing).
- If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.
Foundational Assumptions Chalk Board Photo :)
God//Active already in counselee
Solutions//Simple (not complex), Hidden (in the exception), Co-created.
Counselee//[always changing, experts and not the problem] Expert (defining goals), Changing (always), Problem (NOT).
Counselor//Solution focused, If its not broken don’t fix it, if it works do more of it, if it doesn’t work do something else.
Counseling//Positional (willing, blaming, attending)
Six Signs of people needing help?
- Context of behavior.
- The persistence of behavior.
- The perceived social deviance of the behavior in that culture.
- Whether behavior is causing distress on the person.
- Whether behavior is placing psychological handicaps on the individual.
- Does the behavior have a debilitating effect on overall functioning.
What is the critical mass (of the 6 signs)?
The critical mass is number 6, the tipping point, does the behavior have a debilitating effect on overall functioning.
How does the definition of sanity/insanity relate to Kollar or to mainstream American psychology?
Kollar: If it doesn’t work, stop doing it, if it works, do more of it! Since sanity is when you the thing that does not work, over and over and expect it to work…stop doing that!
American psychology: Asks where the problem comes from and proclaims that if we can change our thought and emotion then we can change our behavior.
Explain American/Western European Psychology
Problem focused. The search for the root cause, mauy actually reinforce the problem.
