boxers or brief therapies Flashcards

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What is the primary focus of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)?

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Interpersonal factors contributing to a client’s current symptoms

IPT views mental disorders as treatable medical illnesses and aims for symptom relief and improved interpersonal functioning.

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Who originally developed Interpersonal Psychotherapy?

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Klerman and Weissman

The therapy was developed as a treatment for acute depression.

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What are the primary problem areas addressed in IPT for depression?

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  • Interpersonal role disputes
  • Interpersonal role transitions
  • Interpersonal deficits
  • Grief

These areas are identified during the initial stage of therapy.

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What is the initial stage of IPT focused on?

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Determining the client’s diagnosis and the interpersonal context of symptoms

This information helps to identify the primary problem area for treatment.

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What strategies are used in the middle phase of IPT?

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  • Encouragement of affect
  • Role-playing
  • Communication analysis
  • Decision analysis

These strategies address the problem area identified in the initial stage.

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What is the final stage of IPT concerned with?

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Termination and relapse prevention

This stage addresses issues related to the end of therapy and maintaining progress.

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What is the focus of Solution-Focused Therapy?

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Solutions to problems instead of the etiology and nature of problems

It adopts a goal-directed collaborative approach.

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What type of question is the ‘miracle question’ in Solution-Focused Therapy?

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A question that helps establish the focus of treatment as the future

It encourages clients to visualize how they would know their problem was solved.

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Provide an example of an exception question used in Solution-Focused Therapy.

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Can you think of a time in the past two weeks when you and your partner did not argue?

This question helps clients identify times when their problems did not exist or were less intense.

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What do scaling questions in Solution-Focused Therapy help clients evaluate?

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Their current status or progress toward achieving their goals

An example would be asking clients to rate their stress level on a scale from 1 to 10.

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What structure is typically followed in each session of Solution-Focused Therapy?

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Asking questions, providing feedback, and assigning a task

The formula first session task requires clients to identify something they want to continue in their lives.

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What is the Transtheoretical Model?

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A model that integrates concepts and strategies from multiple therapeutic approaches, focusing on matching strategies to a person’s stage of change

Developed by Prochaska & DiClemente in 1983.

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What are the six stages of change in the Transtheoretical Model?

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  • Precontemplation
  • Contemplation
  • Preparation
  • Action
  • Maintenance
  • Termination

Each stage represents a different level of readiness to change.

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What characterizes the Precontemplation stage?

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Clients have no intention of changing their behaviors in the next six months and may be in denial

They may resist advice or change interventions.

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What strategies can benefit clients in the Precontemplation stage?

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  • Consciousness raising
  • Dramatic relief
  • Environmental reevaluation

These strategies help clients become aware of their problems.

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What defines the Contemplation stage?

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Clients plan to change in the next six months but feel ambivalent about it

Ambivalence can hinder their transition to the next stage.

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What strategies are useful for clients in the Contemplation stage?

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  • Self-reevaluation
  • Strategies from the Precontemplation stage

Self-reevaluation helps clients evaluate their feelings about the situation.

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What is the focus of the Preparation stage?

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Clients plan to take action within the next month

This stage involves making a commitment to change.

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What strategies support clients in the Preparation stage?

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  • Self-reevaluation
  • Self-liberation

These strategies help clients believe in their ability to change.

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What happens in the Action stage?

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Clients actively change their behaviors

This stage involves implementing change strategies.

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What strategies are effective for clients in the Action stage?

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  • Contingency management
  • Stimulus control
  • Counterconditioning

These strategies help maintain behavior change.

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What is the Maintenance stage?

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Clients have maintained their behavior change for six months

Focus is on relapse prevention.

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What strategies are useful in the Maintenance stage?

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The same strategies as in the Action stage

These strategies help prevent relapse.

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What characterizes the Termination stage?

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Clients are confident that their risk for relapse is low

This indicates a high level of self-efficacy.

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What factors affect motivation to change according to the Transtheoretical Model?

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  • Decisional balance
  • Self-efficacy
  • Temptation

These factors influence a person’s willingness to progress through the stages.

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What is decisional balance?

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The strength of a person’s beliefs about the pros and cons of changing

It is crucial during the Contemplation stage.

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What does self-efficacy refer to?

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The confidence a person has in their ability to change and avoid relapse

It is essential for progressing through the stages.

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What is temptation in the context of the Transtheoretical Model?

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The intensity of the urge to engage in undesirable behavior

Temptation is usually strongest in the early stages of change.

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True or False: The order of the stages in the Transtheoretical Model is easy to memorize.

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True

Each stage’s name describes its order in the sequence.

30
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Fill in the blank: The acronym that helps remember the stages of the Transtheoretical Model is _____

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PC-PAM-T

Each letter corresponds to a stage in the model.

31
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What is Motivational Interviewing (MI)?

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A method for enhancing intrinsic motivation by exploring and resolving ambivalence.

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Who developed Motivational Interviewing?

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Miller & Rollnick.

33
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What was MI originally developed for?

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As an intervention for substance use disorders.

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Which therapy elements does MI incorporate?

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  • Rogers’s person-centered therapy
  • Prochaska and DiClemente’s transtheoretical model
  • Bandura’s concept of self-efficacy
  • Festinger’s notion of cognitive dissonance.
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What does MI assume about interventions?

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They are most effective when they match the client’s stage of change.

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Which stages of change is MI particularly useful for?

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Precontemplation and contemplation stages.

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What is ‘change talk’ in MI?

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Statements that favor change, e.g., ‘I’d probably feel a lot better if I stopped smoking.’

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What is ‘sustain talk’ in MI?

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Statements that favor maintaining the status quo, e.g., ‘I’m just not ready to stop smoking.’

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What does ‘discord’ refer to in MI?

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Statements that signal dissonance in the therapist-client relationship.

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What is decisional balance (DB) in MI?

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A strategy involving identifying the pros and cons of change.

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When is decisional balance contraindicated?

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When the goal is to resolve the client’s ambivalence to promote change.

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What did Marker and Norton’s (2018) meta-analysis find regarding MI?

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Patients with anxiety disorders who received MI prior to CBT had greater symptom reduction than those who received CBT only.

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What was found in Randall and McNeil’s (2017) review regarding MI and CBT?

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The combination of MI and CBT was more beneficial than CBT alone for several disorders.

44
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How effective is MI when delivered via telehealth compared to in-person?

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MI has similar beneficial effects whether delivered in-person or via telehealth.

45
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What is Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy?

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Time-limited alternatives to longer-term psychodynamic psychotherapies.

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What do brief psychodynamic psychotherapies assume about change?

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Change can occur during a brief therapeutic process.

47
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What is a characteristic of brief psychodynamic psychotherapies regarding therapy goals?

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Therapy should have limited goals identified and agreed upon by the client and therapist.

48
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Who are brief psychodynamic therapies appropriate for?

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Clients who can benefit from insight-oriented therapy and can form a therapeutic alliance.

49
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What role do practitioners take in brief psychodynamic therapy?

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An active role to quickly establish a therapeutic alliance.

50
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What type of transference do practitioners of brief psychodynamic therapy emphasize?

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Positive transference.

51
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What concerns do practitioners address early in brief psychodynamic therapy?

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Loss, separation, and concerns related to termination of therapy.