Explain the Concept of Search, Experience, and Credence Attributes

question 61

Essay

Explain the concept of search, experience, and credence attributes.

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Definitions:

Interpretation

A therapist’s attempts to explain the inner significance of the client’s thoughts, feelings, memories, and behaviors.

Free Association

A psychotherapeutic technique in which clients spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactly as they occur, with as little censorship as possible.

Transference

In psychotherapy, the redirection of a patient's feelings for a significant person to another individual, often the therapist, in the current situation.

Resistance

Largely unconscious defensive maneuvers intended to hinder the progress of therapy.