Intervention Flashcards
Stages of Change
1) Precontemplation
2) Contemplation
3) Preparation
4) Action
5) Maintenance
Gestalt Therapy
Developed by Fritz Perls. Based in Field Theory. goal is to integrate thoughts, feelings, and actions
Feminist therapy
focuses on political change as a goal
Strategic Family Therapy
Jay Haley: therapist directives (i.e., commands) to members of the family, reframing of specific behaviors that may be presently viewed as unacceptable, and circular questioning, which involves the therapist asking each member of the family the same question about a particular issue, and then comparing responses.
Structural Family Therapy
Minuchin. Therapist joins family system. Combo of systems theory and communication theory. Emphasis on family structure, boundaries, and subsystems
- triangulation and detouring
- Interventions include enactment, blocking, and reframing
Extended Family Systems therapy
Bowen. Focus on intergenerational transmission process, triangulation, family projection process, sibling position, emotional cutoff, societal emotional process
Goal–> Differentiation of Self
Solution-Focused therapy
Miracle: (A miracle happens and your problem is solved. What is different?)
-Exception: (Think of a time when problem didn’t exist. What was that like?)
Yalom - Group therapy
What is important is:
1) Interpersonal learning
2) cohesiveness
3) catharsis
Systematic Desensitization
Research shows that what is important is not relaxation, but exposure (extinction)
Aversive Counterconditioning
something you don’t like is paired with something that you want to get rid of (shoe fetish)
Flooding
mass practice is better than spaced practice
Alfred Adler
Key concepts are style of life and creative self. Importance of social influence and family constellation..
Techniques include “Acting As If”, “Paradoxical Intention” (prescribing the symptom), and Magic Wand
Erik Erikson
Stages of psychosocial development are (a) trust versus mistrust, 0 to 18 months; (b) autonomy versus shame, 1 to 3 years; (c) initiative versus guilt, 3 to 6 years; (d) industry versus inferiority, 6 to 11 years; (e) identity versus role confusion, 12 to 18 years; (f) intimacy versus isolation, 18 to 35 years; (g) generativity versus stagnation, 35 to 64 years; and (h) ego integrity versus despair, age 65 and older.
Erich Fromm
Five character orientations: productive, receptive, exploitative, hoarding, and marketing
Karen Horney
Developed idea of womb envy. Also believed maladaptive personality development was due to basic anxiety, resulting from poor interpersonal relationships esp. with caregivers
Harry Stack Sullivan
Impt. of cog development in forming personality.
Protaxic mode - cognitions separate, isolated events (infancy, schizophrenia)
Parataxic mode - inferring causal relationships where it doesn’t exist (parataxic distortion common in neuroses)
Syntaxic mode - logical, rational, and symbolic cognition
Transtheoretical Model
Prochaska and Norcross (2010). 2 main processes of change: experiential and behavioral
The Dodo Bird Effect
Refers to finding that different therapeutic interventions have similar outcomes. Associated with Common Factors approach.
Common Factors
Positive expectations, therapy relationship, working alliance
MID (Minority Identity Development) Model
Atkinson, Morten, and Sue. 1) conformity 2) dissonance 3) resistance and immersion 4) introspection 5) synergistic
Yalom’s 11 factors/benefits of groups
installation of hope, universality (recognizing that others experience similar struggles), learning and conveying information, altruism, corrective recapitulation of one’s family of origin, development of social skills (e.g., by experimenting with different ways of interacting with others), the opportunity to imitate behavior, processing existential-related concerns (e.g., search for higher purpose), cohesiveness within the group, catharsis, and interpersonal learning.
Yalom ideal group size
5-10, with 7-8 being ideal
Reality Therapy
Grounded in Choice Theory. Glasser (2011) believed that all “symptoms” of mental illness were essentially misguided attempts at meeting clients’ needs, especially their goals centering on personal relationships.
based on the assumption that people have five basic needs (survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun) that act as the primary source of motivation
Personal Construct Theory
George Kelly. Constructivist therapy that focuses on how people “construe” events and proposes that construing involves reliance on personal constructs.
Psychoanalytic therapeutic process
clarification, confrontation, interpretation, working through
Theme interference
Caplan. (consultee-centered consultation). Source of therapist non-objectivity. type of transference that occurs when a consultee’s unresolved conflict related to a particular type of client or situation interferes with his/her objectivity when working with similar clients or in similar situations.
