Formulations/Therapies

Question 1

What is the procedure in CAT?

Answer 1

Reciprocal Role
Appraisal
Aim
Belief
Action
Consequence
Reappraisal

Question 2

What are the three problem areas in CAT?

Answer 2

Snags
Traps
Dilemmas

Question 3

What is the aim of CAT?

Answer 3

To create change through understanding and recognition of patterns
To learn from new behaviours

Question 4

What are the three ‘R’s in CAT?

Answer 4

Reformulation
Recognition
Revision

Question 5

What are the four domains of Theraplay?

Answer 5

Challenge
Nurture
Structure
Engagement

Question 6

What are the four stages of DBT?

Answer 6

Stabilisation and behavioural control
Replace quiet desperation with emotional experiencing
Achieve ‘ordinary’ happiness
Resolve a sense of incompleteness and achieve joy

Question 7

What are dialectics?

Answer 7

Opposite ends of a spectrum

Question 8

How could dialectics be considered when formulating?

Answer 8

When someone is acting in extreme and opposite ways. Also worth thinking about dilemmas in CAT

Question 9

What are the three types of coping in Lazarus’ Transactional Model of Stress?

Answer 9

Meaning based coping
Problem based coping
Emotion based coping

Question 10

What is meaning based coping in Lazarus’ Transactional Model of Stress?

Answer 10

Positive reappraisals
Revised goals
Personal Beliefs

Question 11

What is problem based coping in Lazarus’ Transactional Model of Stress?

Answer 11

Trying to have control over the problem, change negative emotions and stress by changing the problem

Question 12

What is emotion based coping in Lazarus’ Transactional Model of Stress?

Answer 12

Lowering anxiety by avoiding and distancing

Question 13

With what is Type A attachment style preoccupied?

Answer 13

Avoidance and cognitions

Question 14

With what is Type C attachment style preoccupied?

Answer 14

Emotional expression

Question 15

What does Type A need?

Answer 15

More feeling and access to emotions

Question 16

What does Type C need?

Answer 16

Less focus on emotional expression

Question 17

What is the aim of attachment focussed interventions?

Answer 17

Generate self-protective strategies that are helpful and adaptive and can be applied appropriately
Alter current information about other strategies to either get rid of extra information, correct information or apply more specifically
Learn reflective integration

Question 18

What does Crittenden (2005) about ‘symptoms’?

Answer 18

Symptoms serve a function and it is this function which needs attention
Symptoms come from self-protective strategies that were developed in response to early caregivers

Question 19

What is involved in stabilisation in PTSD?

Answer 19

Psychoeducation
Replacing maladaptive coping styles with adaptive ones
Establish safety and routine

Question 20

When replacing maladaptive coping styles what needs to be offered?

Answer 20

Emotional regulation

Breaking down defences

Question 21

Why do we offer psychoeducation as part of stabilisation in PTSD?

Answer 21

To normalise and validate
To engage
To offer insight for further work

Question 22

What are the three steps of intervention in PTSD?

Answer 22

Stabilisation
Processing
Reintegration

Question 23

What is involved in reintegration in PTSD?

Answer 23

Reviewing life gains and goals
Positive changes
Relapse prevention

Question 24

What are the four stages for attachment based work?

Answer 24

Caregiver becomes able to regulate and recognise their own emotions
Caregiver becomes more attuned with the child’s needs
Caregiver responds consistently and appropriately
Develop routines, especially around transitions, to decrease sense of chaos