Final Exam Flashcards
Multicultural goal of therapy
Help well-being and “to help clients thrive and push past internalized oppression”
Multicultural view of psychopathology
- Expression of symptoms influenced by culture and identity
- Understand how the client views the causes of their symptoms
- Oppression and inequality can influence psychopathology - so does being in a dominant group
Multicultural guiding principles
- “Unity through diversity”
- Draws from many types of psychological theories as well as paradigms outside of psychology
- Often integrative
- Can focus on change processes
- Psychotherapy is culturally embedded
- Differences between therapist and client can affect assessment and diagnosis
- Cultural competency is important for understanding functional vs. Nonfunctional behaviors
Multicultural 6 propositions
- A metatheory - each theory represents a worldview
- The interrelationship of experiences and contexts of the client and counselor matter - both client and counselor have multiple identities
- Level of cultural identity development influences goals and processes
- Use modalities and goals consistent with the experiences and cultural values of the client
- The importance of multiple helping roles
- Counselor competence involves awareness, understanding, and culturally appropriate intervention strategies
Multicultural techniques
- Reflexivity
- Emphasize strengths and cultural resilience
- Power differential analysis
- Empowerment (acknowledging how oppression affects mental health)
- Pluralism (what treatment works for who and in what context)
- Focus on the therapeutic relationship
Multicultural outcome data
- Traditional research more difficult (not many RCT’s)
Evidence for strength of culturally adapted treatments
Meta-analysis overall effect was d = -.51
- research on cultural competence
- research of effects of discrimination and racism on mental health
- research on microaggressions
- beyond research, many accomplishments
Multicultural therapist characteristics
- Cultural competence (knowledge, attitudes, skill, and policies)
- Cultural humility
Feminist view of psychopathology
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Psychology must be interpreted within the framework of an “oppressive social context”
View of psychopathology arises from:
1. The conflicts and nature of traditional feminine roles
2. Tactics used to exercise personal power
3. Arbitrary labels that society has assigned to certain behaviors in order to impose sanctions or exert social control
Feminist goal of therapy
- Empowering the client
- Identifying oppressive societal forces and altering them
Feminist Key techniques
- Egalitarian relationship
- Avoiding labels
- Avoid victimization and blame
- Involvement in social/political activism
Psychodynamic therapy view of psychopathology
- People are not aware of reasons for their behavior
- At least some of our motivation is biologically motivated
- emphasis on the role of the past
Freudian theory of psychopathology
- Unconscious and unresolved conflicts from childhood
- May react to current events as a reaction to past events
- Things early on in life shapes your unconscious and you are reacting to it
Psydomanic therapy goal of therapy
- Bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness and integrate repressed things into the personality
Psychodynamic therapy mechanisms of change
- Therapeutic alliance
- Insight
- Defense mechanisms
- Transference/countertransference
- Object relations
- Mentalization/reflective functioning
Therapeutic alliance (psychodynamic)
1. Goal consensus or agreement
2. Collaborative engagement in mutual tasks
3. Development of a relational bond
- medium effect size
- it helps to collect feedback on the alliance
Effects of transference/countertransference (psychodynamic)
- Transference = large effect size in one meta-analysis
- Countertransference (overall and outcome) = small and negative
- Countertransference management = larger, r =-.56
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Freudian therapy techniques
4 key techniques:
- confrontation
- clarification
- Interpretation
- working through
also focus on the relationship:
- working alliance
- transference and countertransference
Psychodynamic therapy outcome data
- Outperformed waitlist and treatment as usual
- No differences between this therapy and others
- For depression and anxiety, more effective than control (medium effect size)
- for personality, no difference in core symptom between this and other treatment
- great degree of heterogeneity
- most of the things we know about it come from brief psychodynamic
Key features of psychodynamic therapy
- Therapeutic alliance is really important
- Lack of homework
- Less guidance and more open questions
Brief psychodynamic therapy goal
- Focus on patient expression of emotion
- Explore avoidance and resistance
- Find patterns in patient’s lives and relationships
- Emphasize past experiences
- Explore wishes, dreams, and fantasies
- Emphasize the therapeutic relationship
Brief psychodynamic therapy outcome data
Leichsenring - meta-analysis of pre to post treatment effect sizes
- Target problems (d = 1.39)
- General psychiatric symptoms (d. =. 90)
- Social functioning (d. =. 80)
- Short-term dynamic therapy significantly outperformed a waitlist and treatment as usual
- No difference between this therapy and others
Brief psychodynamic therapy for depression
- More effective than control (medium effect size)
- Not different effects from alternative therapies
Brief psychodynamic for anxiety
- Better than control (PTSD and social anxiety)
- Not different than other treatments in short or long term
Brief psychodynamic for personality disorders
- No difference in core symptoms between this treatment and others
Brief psychodynamic number of sessions
14-20
Humanistic/experiential view of psychopathology
People have an actualizing tendency
Humanistic/experiential goal of therapy
Self-awareness, growth, and meaning
Humanistic/experiential techniques/principles
Focus on therapeutic relationship - seen as potentially curative, can provide client with a new, corrective, and validating experience
- Authentic, collaborative, and egalitarian therapy relationship
- In-therapy experiencing
Person-centered and genuine concern for whole person - not a diagnosis or symptom
- Focus on client’s subjective experiences
- Self-determination and self-actualization
- Focus on current/present (not past)
- Reject assessment and diagnosis
Humanistic/experiential outcomes
- Large effects compared to no therapy
- CBT appears to have an advantage over these therapies (non-directive supportive therapy does worst vs. CBT)
- For depression (especially severe) person-centered may need to be supplemented
- For anxiety, CBT may be better
- Chronic medical conditions does as well as CBT
- May be effective for psychosis but contradicts some guidelines
Examples of humanistic/experiential
- Person-centered therapy
- Gestalt therapy
- Emotion-focused therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Existential therapy
- Psychodrama
- Relationship control intervention
Person-centered therapy view of psychopathology
- An inconsistency between ones’ view of self and ones’ experiences
Person- centered therapy goal of therapy
- To creat personality reorganization (resolve incongruence between actual self and experience)
- To become self-actualized
Person-centered therapy guiding principles
Three core conditions
1. Congruence
2. Unconditional positive regard
3. Empathy
Carl Rogers argued that these are necessary and sufficient for change to occur
Congruence
- Genuineness
- A person’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors match
- The therapist’s internal and external experiences match
- Being honest with the client
- Involves self-disclosure and immediacy
Unconditional positive regard
- Accepting the client’s experiences and caring for the client as a separate person
- Caring for them for who they are and not placing conditions of worth on them
- Do not directly express it but do so indirectly - arriving on time, let clients talk, remember client stories, empathy, respect clients, affirmations
Empathy
- Understanding the client from the client’s point of view
- At the same time knowing that you can never truly know the client’s POV because you are not the same as them
- Reflection of feeling, interpretive reflection of feeling, feeling validation
- Do not say “I know how you feel”, I’ve been through that before”, “that is horrible”
Person-centered therapy outcomes
Congruence
- r=.24 (small to medium effect size)
- 6% of treatment variance
Unconditional positive regard
- medium effect size r =.27 (ethnic minority status of client might moderate the effect with bigger effect size in such groups)
Empathy
- medium effect size with much variability
- 9% of treatment variance las much or move than the alliance)
Transdiagnostic therapies definition
- No uniform definition
- Apply the same underlying treatment principles across mental disorders, without tailoring the protocol to specific diagnoses
Transdiagnostic therapies target
- Shared processes and several diagnoses at once
Enhanced cognitive-behavior therapy
Transdiagnostic therapy
- Developed out of CBT for bulimia nervosa (CBT-BN is an effective treatment for bulimia nervosa)
- Eating disorders have many things in common with each other, core underlying pathology (people often switch diagnoses)
- One transdiagnostic protocol to apply to all eating disorders because there are similar transdiagnostic mechanisms (overevaluation of weight and shape)
Examples of transdiagnostic therapies
- Unified treatment protocol for emotional disorders
- Internet CBT (ex: The wellbeing course)
- Acceptance and commitment therapy and other third wave therapies
Solution-focused therapy view of maladaptive behavior
- Maladaptive behavior is irrelevant
Solution-focused therapy goal of therapy
- Find solutions to problems by assisting the client in recognizing strengths and resources
Solution-focused therapy key techniques
- Client is the expert, therapist collaborates
- Heavy use of questions (miracle question, exception questions, scaling questions)
Interpersonal therapy for depression view of psychopathology
- Disruptions are a consequence or contributor to maladaptive interpersonal communication patterns that can result in less support
- Interpersonal triad: acute interpersonal crisis (stressor), biopsychosocial vulnerability (diathesis), and social support (contex) all contribute to distress
Interpersonal therapy goal of therapy
- Depressive symptom reduction and better interpersonal function
- Helps you see connections between depression and relationships
- Present focused
Interpersonal therapy techniques
- Education
- Instillation of hope
- Positive regard and collaboration
- Closeness circle and interpersonal inventory resulting in case formulation of primary problem area
- Communication analysis → (how your communication impacts others), modeling, role-playing, affective expression, clarification of expectations for relationships, problem-solving
- kind of like psychodynamic but very behavioral
- very directive
- very manualized
- you don’t talk about the past much (present-focused)
Interpersonal therapy background
- Informed by interpersonal approaches and attachment theory
- Combines psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral
Interpersonal therapy structure
- Brief, manualized therapy
- First developed for depression
- Tested in randomized clinical trials
- 12-16 sessions with 3 phases (consciousness raising, primary problem area, termination)
Problem areas = unresolved grief, interpersonal role disputes, role transitions, interpersonal deficits, etc.
Interpersonal therapy for depression outcome data
- NIMH collaborative treatment study
- Interpersonal therapy, cognitive therapy, and imipramine and clinical management, and placebo plus clinical management for outpatient depression
- Overall, neither treatment significantly different from placebo
- For move severely depressed, evidence that IPT outperformed placebo (the same was not the for cognitive therapy)
Interpersonal therapy for adolescents parent involvement
- Parents involved in assessment/initial phase
- May attend middle phase if relevant, otherwise coached to be supportive and that adolescent will be trying new skills
- Termination - parents involved in progress and treatment planning review
Behavioral therapy theory of psychopathology
- Maladaptive behavior is acquired and maintained through the same learning principles as normal behavior
Behavior therapy guiding principles
- A reaction to unscientific methods of psychoanalytic perspective
- We should only study what we can directly observe
- Tries to understand how we learn new behaviors, change them, and make them extinct
- Focus on changeable behaviors
- Focus on changing the stimulus and response
- Focus on ongoing assessment of current behaviors (treatment is empirical in nature)
Foundations of behaviorism
- Classical conditioning (neutral stimulus paired with unconditioned stimulus)
- Operant conditioning (punishment decreases the late of responding, reinforcement increases)
Behavior therapy techniques
- Graduated homework assignments
- Exposure
- Stimulus control
- Behavioral/functional analysis
- Communication skills
- Problem solving
Cognitive (or cognitive-behavioral) therapy view of psychopathology
- Thoughts and how we process information can lead to problematic emotions and behaviors
- Underlying cognitions have content specificity to the psychopathology they produce
Cognitive therapy background
Response to the failure of behaviorism to capture higher-order mental processes (e.g. Thinking)
Cognitive therapy techniques for guided discovery
- Socratic dialogue and questioning
- Thought records
- Behavioral experiments
- Core beliefs and prediction log
- Imagery
- Role play
- Planning for relapse
- Homework
Cognitive therapy for depression view of psychopathology
- Thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and your physiology/biochemistry are interconnected → and they’re all influenced by the environment and can influence the environment
- People prone to depression have negative cognitive biases
- Cognitive triad of depression = negative view of yourself, the world, and the future
- People with depression distort their interpretation of events so that they stay in line with their negative views → people distort information without awareness (“automatic thoughts”)
The cognitive model
- Negative automatic thoughts arise from depressogenic core beliefs (I am a failure) and underlying assumptions (If, then. If I don’t do this, then I am a failure.)
- These core beliefs and underlying assumptions are part of larger schemas (Your template for how things work. Your perceptions, goals, expectations, memories, and learning.)
- Schemas control how you are taking in and processing info from the world
- Schemas develop through past experiences
- People with depression have negative schemas
- Early maladaptive schemas (EMS) develop when a child’s core needs are not met
- EMS are dormant until a life event activates them
Cognitive therapy goal of therapy
- Work on the level of people’s thoughts to change how they feel
Cognitive therapy outcome studies
“Well established” or “efficacious and specific” and “strong research support”
- Outperforms a bonafide treatment or placebo in at least 2 well-designed studies
Cognitive therapy immediate outcome data
- Reduces depression for about half of clients
- Seems similar to alternative treatments and antidepressant medication
- Studies have shown slightly different results for mild-moderate depression vs. severe depression
Cognitive therapy relapse prevention data
- Several studies and a meta-analysis have shown that cognitive therapy produces lower relapse rates than medication
- Cognitive therapy also has many other qualities over medication including less side effects; can’t be used in suicide attempts; cost-effective; time-limited
Cognitive therapy chronic depression outcomes
- 40-50% of patients for “acute depression” do not respond after cognitive therapy
5 treatments have been developed for chronic depression:
1. DBT applications
2. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MCBT)
3. Metacognitive therapy (MCT)
4. Cognitive - behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy (CBASP)
5. Schema therapy (ST)
Cognitive therapy ideal characteristics of therapists
- Good non-specific skills, including “accurate empathy”
- Logical and good planners
- Active (structured, confident, and professional)
Cognitive therapy ideal characteristics of clients
Need more empirical data
- Usually those without personality disorders or more severe disorders
- Introspective
- Well organized and good planners and thinkers
- Not too dogmatic or inflexible in thinking
- Can identify a precipitating event
- Have relationships with others and are employed at some point
- Not too angry
Cognitive therapy early sessions
- Work on symptom reduction
- Overcome hopelessness
- Develop rapport
- Identify problems and set goals
- Socialize to cognitive therapy/demonstrate the cognitive therapy model
- Immediate symptom relief (using behavior therapy)
- Discover the link between thoughts and emotions
- Label thinking errors