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ASWB Social Work Bachelor's Exam Prep

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Ego functions include judgment, object relations, thought processes, defensive functioning, reality testing, impulse control, affect regulation, and synthesis. Proponents of this practice focus on the ego’s normal and pathological development, management of aggressive impulses and its adaptation to reality. It is part of what school?
  1. Gestalt therapy
  2. Assessment
  3. Reality therapy
  4. Psychoanalysis
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Answer - D - Ego psychology is rooted in Sigmund Freud’s structural id-ego-superego model of the mind. It is the study of how an individual interacts with the external world, as well as the responses to internal forces. Proponents of this practice focus on the ego’s normal and pathological development, management of aggressive impulses, and its adaptation to reality.
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