Intervention

Question 1

What is intervention?

Answer 1

It’s an action taken to improve a situation, especially a medical disorder.

Question 2

When should therapist disclosure be used?

Answer 2

Only if it’s clearly therapeutic, it should be kept at a minimum though. Eg. If my client is talking about a phobia then I can mention my trypophobia to build rapport.

Question 3

Encouraging activities that are valued increases their uptake. Explain.

Answer 3

High value, low enjoyment: taking stats class for your degree
Low value, high enjoyment: guilty pleasures, watching KUWTK
High value, high enjoyment: hard to find something like this, playing music
Low value, low enjoyment: watching a bad tv show that you don’t like all day

Question 4

What is dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)? Dialectics? Behavior?

Answer 4

Dialectics: 2 tensions/opposites that you need to bring together with your client
Behavior: learning