Clinical Flashcards
Interpersonal psychotherapy
- originally developed to prevent relapse from acute episode of major depressive disorder
- has been applied to chronic depression, bipolar disorder, binge eating disorder, bulimia, and other disorders
- goals are symptom reduction and improvement in interpersonal functioning
Based on the medical model and views, depression and other disorders as treatable medical conditions
- primary goals of therapy are to relieve current symptoms and to improve aspects of current interpersonal functioning that are maintaining symptoms
- clients are assigned the sick role in order to allow them to be ill without blaming themselves for their symptoms and viewing their illnesses as temporary and treatable
- interpersonal role disputes, role transitions, interpersonal deficits, and or unresolved grief
Strategies of interpersonal therapy
- tailored to problem area being targeted
Encouragement of effect, communication analysis, decision analysis, and role play
Solution focused therapy
- goal is to help clients find solutions to their problems
-structured session which involve asking questions and receiving feedback And assigning tasks to complete before the next session
- therapist adopt a goal-directed collaborative approach, focus on future, and use several types of questions to help clients identify concrete, realistic therapy goals and personal strengths and resources to achieve goals/ and to monitor progress in therapy
Miracle question
Solution focused
- help clarify therapy goals
” If a miracle happened during the night and your problem was suddenly solved, how would you know that the miracle had occurred??
Exception questions
- used to identify treatment goals by identifying possible solutions to problems
Identify times and the problem did not exist or was less intense
” Can you think of a time in the past 2 weeks where you did not argue with your son?”
Scaling questions
- help evaluate current status or progress towards achieving goals
” The scale from 1 to 10, how stressed are you now?
Transtheoretical model
- goal is to help client move to the next stage of change
- 10 processes of change and optimal process depends on stages of change
Pre-contemplation
- no intention to change
- unaware or not concerned about behavior
Contemplation
- aware of problems and are planning to make changes in the next 6 months
Preparation
- planning to take action in the next month And developed concrete plan of action
Action
- actively engaged in changing behavior
- devoting considerable time and energy in change
Maintenance
- have engaged in new behavior for at least 6 months and working to prevent relapse
Termination
- Have maintained change for at least 5 years
confident inability to maintain change
Conscious raising
- help client transition from pre-contemplation to contemplation And contemplation to preparation stage
Counter conditioning and reinforcement management
Transition from action to maintenance stage and maintenance to termination stage
Motivational interviewing
- goal is to increase client’s motivation to change by helping overcome ambivalence and resistance
- interventions are most effective when match stage of change, most effective for pre-contemplation or contemplation stage
- integrates trans theoretical model, Rogers person-centered therapy, with self-efficacy and cognitive dissonance
- expressing empathy, supporting self-efficacy, developing discrepancy, enrolling with resistance
Developing a discrepancy
Mi
- help clients see a discrepancy between current behaviors and their goals And values
Rolling with resistance
Mi
- decrease resistance by avoiding arguments and power struggles and responding to resistance with acceptance rather than opposition
General systems theory
- traditional approaches influenced by this
- A family is a system of interacting components, and change in one family member changes others
- family systems have homeostatic mechanisms in a state of equilibrium
- are open to some degree: interact with the environment
Cybernetic theory
- family systems receive information through negative and positive feedback loops
Negative feedback loop
- resist change and help maintain status quo
Positive feedback loops
- amplify change and disrupt the status quo
- can lead to a breakdown in the system
Recent approaches to family therapy
- influenced by postmodernism
& Adopt a constructivist or social constructivist perspective
- assume there are multiple viewpoints in realitie
Postmodernism
- challenges the basic premises of general systems: there are universal laws that govern all systems and that can be discovered by scientific research
Extended family systems. (Intergenerational family therapy)-Bowen
+ family problems are due a lack of differentiation That is maintained by emotional triangles, a family projection process, and a multi-generational process
- primary goal is to increase each family members level of differentiation
& Therapist rely on rational process to help clients understand and alter levels of differentiation
- work only with the most differentiated family member or the parents
- the regeneration genogram, process questions, and going home again
Differentiation
- AKA differentiation of self
- ability to distinguish between own failings and thoughts which determines how well the person can separate his or her own emotional functioning from the emotional functioning of others
- low differentiation leads to emotional fusion
Emotional triangles
- when a diad experiences tension it may recruit a third family member
- alleviate tension and increased stability
- likelihood increases as levels of differentiation decrease
Family projection process
- families projection of emotional and maturity onto children which causes children to have lower levels of differentiation
Multi-Generational transmission process
- transmission of emotional immaturity from one generation to the other
- child most involved in family’s emotional system becomes least differentiated and as an adult chooses a partner with a similar level of differentiation, then transmits an even lower level of differentiation to their child most involved in their emotional system and then continues on until the development of symptoms in subsequent generations
Process questions
Bowen
- designed to help family members think logically and less emotionally
Going home again
Bowen
- family member visits family of origin after learning techniques to increase differentiation from family members
Structural family therapy- minuchin
- family dysfunction is due to problems related to family structure
-boundaries,
- development goal is to restructure family so that it’s better able to adapt to stress
- techniques: joining, enactment, boundary making, and unbalancing
Structural family therapy- minuchin
- family dysfunction is due to problems related to family structure
-boundaries,
- development goal is to restructure family so that it’s better able to adapt to stress
- techniques: joining, enactment, boundary making, and unbalancing
Boundaries
Minuchin
- implicit and explicit rules that determine how family members interact with each other
- Continuum: extremely rigid and inflexible boundaries that lead to disengagement and extremely diffuse blurred boundaries that lead to enmeshment clear boundaries relationships
- both lead to an inability to adapt to environmental or developmental stress
In the middle are clear boundaries which allow for close relationships while maintaining A sense of personal identity
Boundaries
Minuchin
- implicit and explicit rules that determine how family members interact with each other
- Continuum: extremely rigid and inflexible boundaries that lead to disengagement and extremely diffuse blurred boundaries that lead to enmeshment clear boundaries relationships
- both lead to an inability to adapt to environmental or developmental stress
In the middle are clear boundaries which allow for close relationships while maintaining A sense of personal identity
Ridgid triad
- chronic boundary problems
Stable Coalition: one parent and kid against the other parent
Unstable coalition; triangulation, each parent demands that the kid sides with them
Detouring attack coalition: parents avoid conflict by blaming child for their problems
Detour- support coalition: parents overprotect child to avoid conflicts
Joining
Minuchin -sf
- used to establish a therapeutic alliance
- Memisis: adopting the families affective behavioral and communication styles
Tracking: adopting content of the family’s communications
Enactment
– family members role play a problematic interaction so the therapist can obtain information about that interaction and encourage family members to interact in an alternative way
Boundary making
Minuchin-SF
Used to soften rigid boundaries or strengthen diffused boundaries
- family member sit closer or further from another member or asking if one family member to be silent or speak up speak up during family interactions
Boundary making
Minuchin-SF
Used to soften rigid boundaries or strengthen diffused boundaries
- family member sit closer or further from another member or asking if one family member to be silent or speak up speak up during family interactions
Unbalancing
- used to alter hierarchical relationships
- therapists temporarily sides with the family member that needs to develop stronger boundaries
- may involve helping family member describe their perspective to other family members
Unbalancing
- used to alter hierarchical relationships
- therapists temporarily sides with the family member that needs to develop stronger boundaries
- may involve helping family member describe their perspective to other family members
Strategic family therapy Haley
- family dysfunction serves an important interpersonal function - symptom is a strategy adapted to a current social situation
For controlling a relationship at all other attempts have failed - maladaptive family functioning is maintained by unclear or inappropriate hierarchical power structures and inflexible patterns of interaction
Goal- altar, hierarchies and interactions maintaining symptoms
Strategies for strategic family therapy
- aimed at specific behaviors
Straightforward directives and paradoxical directives
Strategies for strategic family therapy
- aimed at specific behaviors
Straightforward directives and paradoxical directives
Straightforward directives
Haley-strat f
- instructions to engage in specific behaviors that will change how family members interact
Ex. Set up system of consequences for each misbehavior and consistently apply those consequences
Straightforward directives
Haley-strat f
- instructions to engage in specific behaviors that will change how family members interact
Ex. Set up system of consequences for each misbehavior and consistently apply those consequences
Paradoxical directives
- help family members realize they have control over behaviors or use resistance from other members to help change and desired way
- prescribing the symptom, restraining, and ordeals
Paradoxical directives
- help family members realize they have control over behaviors or use resistance from other members to help change and desired way
- prescribing the symptom, restraining, and ordeals
Prescribing the symptom
- engage in problematic behavior and an exaggerated way