Clinical Psychology Flashcards
Goals of Interpersonal psychotherapy
- symptom reduction
- improved interpersonal functioning
Origins of interpersonal psychotherapy
- develop to prevent relapse following acute episode of MDD
Uses for IPT
- applied to chronic depression, bipolar disorder, bulimia, nervosa, binge eating disorder, and other disorders
Focus of IPT
- focuses on current interpersonal factors contributing to symptoms
What sets IPT apart from other therapies?
- based on the medical model
- sees depression as a medical illness
- client is assign the sick role to allow for them to be ill without blame
- view symptoms as temporary and treatable
Interventions of IPT
- psycho education
- prescribing drugs
- improve aspects of interpersonal functioning that are maintaining symptoms
Focus of IPT
- interpersonal role disputes
- interpersonal role transitions
- interpersonal deficits
- unresolved grief
Strategies of IPT
- Tailored to problem areas being targeted
- encouragement of affect
- communication analysis
- decision analysis
- role playing
what is the focus of solution focused therapy?
- solutions of problems
Therapist role in solution focused therapy
- adopt a goal directed collaborative approach
- focus on the present/ future
- use several types of questions to help clients identify concrete realistic therapy goals and personal strength/ resources to help achieve goals and monitor progress and therapy
Miracle question
Solution focused therapy
-Is used to help identify treatment goals
- if a miracle happened during the night and your problem with suddenly solved. How would you know that a miracle had occurred exception
Exception questions
- used to identify treatment goals by identifying possible solutions to a client’s problems
- solution focused therapy
-Asks client to identify times when the problem did not exist or was less intense
Can you think of a time in the past 2 weeks when you did not argue with your son?
Scaling questions
- solution focused therapy
- asks a client to evaluate their current status with progress toward achieving their goals
-On a scale from 1 to 10 with one being totally relaxed and 10 being the most stressed you’ve ever been. How stressed are you now
Structure of a solution focused therapy therapy session
- each therapy session is structured and involved asking questions, providing feedback, and assigning a task to the client to complete before the next session
The Transtheoretical model/ stages of change
- Prochaska and DiClemente
- pre-contemplation
- contemplation
- preparation
- action
- maintenance
- termination
Pre-contemplation stage
- unaware of or unconcerned about the problems and have no intention of taking action to change in the foreseeable future
Contemplation stage
- aware of their problems and plan to start making changes in a problematic behaviors in the next 6 months
Preparation stage
- tend to take action in the next month and have developed a concrete plan of action
Action stage
- are actively engaged in changing their behaviors and are devoting considerable time and energy to doing so
Maintenance stage
- have engaged in the new behavior for at least 6 months and are working to prevent relapse
Termination stage
- have maintain changes for 5 years and are confident about their ability to continue to do so
10 processes of change
Transtheoretical model
- optimal processes depend on clients stage of change
Conscious-raising
- transtheoretical model
- effective for helping clients transition from the pre-contemplation to the contemplation stage and from the contemplation to the preparation stage
Counter conditioning and reinforcement management
- useful for helping clients transition from the action to the maintenance stage and from the maintenance to the termination stage
Primary goal of motivational interviewing
- increase motivation to change by helping client overcome ambivalence and resistance
Structure of motivational interviewing
- integrates elements of the trans theoretical model, Rogers person centered therapy, bandura’s notion of self-efficacy, and festingers cognitive dissonance.
Assumptions of motivational interviewing
Interventions are most effective when they match the client stage of change
When is motivational interviewing most useful ?
- when the client is in the pre-contemplation or contemplation stage
Techniques of motivational interviewing
- expressing empathy
-supporting self-efficacy
-developing a discrepancy
-rolling with resistance
Developing a discrepancy
- helps clients see differences between current behaviors and goals and values
Rolling with resistance
- decreases resistance by avoiding arguments or power struggles in therapy
- responding to resistance with acceptance rather than opposition
Traditional approaches to family therapies
- influenced by general systems and cybernetic theory
General systems theory
- a family is a system of interacting components
- change in one family member of causes change in other family members
- all family systems are open to some degree
- family systems have homeostatic mechanisms that help them maintain a state of equilibrium
Open family system
- interacts with the environment
Cybernetic theory
- family systems receive information about their functioning through negative and positive feedback loops
Negative feedback loops
- cybernetic theory
- resist change and maintain a status quo
Positive feedback loops
- cybernetic theory
- amplify change and disrupt the status quo
- can lead to appropriate change but can also lead to a breakdown in the system
Recent approaches to family therapy
- influenced by postmodernism
- adopt a constructivist or social constructivist perspective
Postmodernism
- challenge the basic premises of general systems theory
- including that, there are universal laws that govern all systems and that can be proven by scientific research
Adopt a constructivist or social constructivist perspective
- assume that there are multiple viewpoints and realities, all perspectives are cognitively or socially constructed
Extended family systems aka intergenerational family therapy
- Bowen
Problems according to extended family systems therapy
- due to a lack of differentiation that is maintained by emotional triangles, a family projection process, and multi-generational transmission process
Differentiation
- also known as differentiation of self
- Bowen
- the ability to distinguish between own feelings and thoughts
- determines how well you can separate your functioning from other family members
Low differentiation
- Bowen
- leads to emotional fusion with other family members
Emotional triangles
- Bowen
- when a family Diane experiences tension, it may recruit a third member to form this in order to alleviate tension and increase stability
Example of an emotional triangle
- a couple reduces conflict between them by be coming overly involved with their child
Likelihood of emotional triangles
- increases as differentiation decreases
Family projection process
- Bowen
- parents project emotional immaturity onto their kids causing their kids to have a lower level of differentiation
Multi-generational transmission process
- Bowen
- extension of family projection process
- transmission of emotional immaturity from one generation to the next
Example of the multi-generational transmission process
- kids most involved in family emotional system become least differentiated family member and as an adult, choose a partner with a similar level of differentiation
- the couple then transmits an even lower level of differentiation to the most involved kid in the family emotional system which repeats resulting in a development of severe symptoms in a child down the line
Primary goal of extended family therapy/ intergenerational family therapy
- increase the level of differentiation within all family members
Therapist practicing extended family therapy/ intergenerational family therapy
- rely on rational processes to help client understand and alter their levels of differentiation
- May work with only parents or the most differentiated family member
Techniques of extended family therapy/ intergenerational family therapy
- three generation genogram
- processing questions
- going home again
Genogram
- extended family/intergenerational family therapy
- summarizes information about family relationships and significant life events over three generations
Process questions
- Bowen
-designed to help family members think more logically about problematic interactions
Example of process questions
-Bowen
- Do you want to keep reacting to your son in a way that keeps conflict going or do you want change?
going home again
- Bowen intergenerational/ extended family therapy
- family member visits family of origin after learning techniques to increase their differentiation
Structural family therapy
-Minuchan
Assumption of structural family therapy
+ family dysfunction is due to problems related to family structure( boundaries)
Boundaries
- minuchin structural family therapy
- implicit and explicit rules that determine how a family member interacts with each other
- exist on a continuum from overly frigid to diffuse
Overly rigid boundaries
- minuchin
- lead to disengagement
Overly diffuse boundaries
-Minuchin
- lead to amendment
Disengagement or emeshment within the family structure
- structural family therapy
- interfere with the family’s ability to adapt to stress
Clear boundaries
- structural family therapy/ minuchin
- allow for close relationships. Well maintaining a sense of personal identity
Chronic boundary problems according to structural family therapy
- Ridgid triads
Rigid triads
- structural family therapy
- stable coalition
- unstable coalition
- detouring attack coalition
- detouring support coalition
Stable coalition
- structural family therapy
- one parent and child form a inflexible alliance against the other parent
Unstable coalition
- structural family therapy
- triangulation
- each parent demands a child side with them
Detouring attack coalition
- structural family therapy
- parents avoid conflict between them by blaming child
Detouring support coalition
- structural family therapy
- parents avoid conflict by protecting child
Preliminary goal of structural family therapy
- restructural the family so that they can better handle/adapt to stress
Structural family therapy techniques
- joining
- enactment
- boundary making
- unbalancing
Joining
- structural family therapy
- used to establish therapeutic alliance with family
- include memesis and tracking
Memesis
- structural family therapy
- adopting affect behavior and communication style of the family
Tracking
- structural family therapy
- adopting content of family communication
Structure of therapy session in structural family therapy
- join the family
- to evaluate the family structure to make a structural diagnosis and identify appropriate interventions
-therapist then uses enactment boundary making unbalancing and other techniques to restructure the family
Enactment
- asking family members to role play a problematic interaction so the therapist can obtain information about that interaction and then encourage family members to interact in an alternative way
Boundary making
Structural family therapy
- used to soften rigid boundaries or strengthen diffused boundaries
Example of boundary making
- structural family therapy
- asking a family member to sit further or closer to another family member and a therapy session or asking a family member to be quiet or speak up