17: Treatment of Psychological Disorders - "Third Wave" Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies Flashcards
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“Third-Wave” Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies
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- These therapies incorporate the concepts of mindfulness as a central objective of behaviour change, and they represent the addition of humanistic concepts and eastern methods to behaviour therapy.
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Mindfulness-Based Treatments
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- Mindfulness - is a mental state of awareness, focus, openns, and acceptance of immediate experience.
- an important tool for learning mindfulness is a meditation technique in which people develop a tranquil state and focus closely on their sensations, thoughts, and feelings allowing them to come and go without a struggle
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Mindfulness-Based Treatments
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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- Developed by Steven Hayes
- Also focuses on the process of mindfulness as a vehicle for change
- tteaches clients to “just notice”, aceept, and embrace them, even previously unwanted ones.
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Mindfulness-Based Treatments
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
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- it is a treatment developed specifically for the treatment of borderline personality disorder
- developed by Marsha Linehan
- this treatment icludes a package of elements from cognitive, behavioural, humanistic, and psychodynamic therapies
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Eclecticism
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To an increasing extent, therapists are combining orientations and therapeutic techniques for particular clients
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Therapy as Social Education
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- Most therapeutic techniques have the goal of eliminating unwanted behaviors.
- However simple elimination is not always sufficient – need to replace the unwanted behavior with positive healthy behavior
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Therapy as Social Education
Three Techniques Commonly Employed Are:
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- Graded task assignments – progressive steps in real life situations moving towards the final desired behavior
- Modeling – therapist demonstrates a healthy response to a problem situation
- Role-playing – exchange of roles by patient and therapist in acting out of a problem situation
