Intervention CBT Flashcards
INTERVENTIONS MUST KNOW….
TREAT THE PRESENTING CONCERN – TARGET THE MAINTAINING FACTORS!
If the Q involves a resistant client who does not know why they are there for Tx –
Always start with a Soft exploratory approach!
What are structured interventions?
They have;
a beginning
a middle and
an end
What is the client wants to start working on something else? or another issue comes up during therapy?
Finish working on what you are working on and then re contract with the client to work on other issues
There is an order of things - first contact assessment formulation intervention and endings
What is a basic skill of therapy before you embark on any interventions?
Identification of emotions; if client struggles with identifying emotional triggers for symptoms, you don’t have to embark in some complex desensitization process. You have to help them put emotions and sensations into words first.
If someone tells you that her husband cheated on her and that her son stole money from her don’t say “suck it up princess” or give her a Freudian interpretation or tell her how you can’t trust people in this world anymore and it also happened to you. Say something like: “You have been hurt by your husband and also your son” - what is this process called?
Clarifying thoughts (Reflecting and Paraphrasing)
What is the therapeutic alliance?
Therapeutic Alliance: The establishment of a collaborative relationship characterized by common goals and understanding.
What do you use when you focus on rapport and checking that you have understood the client correctly?
Paraphrasing and reflecting
What are some concepts to follow for any intervention question?
GENERAL CONCEPTS FOR ANY INTERVENTION QUESTION
• Think about the stages of treatment.
• Meet the client where they are at.
• Start slow and gentle (soft landing). Do not bombard clients with tests and scales. Do not start with an intervention!
• Start with validating and exploring client’s concerns/problems/resistance.
• Try to find common goals or ask clients (especially adolescents who do not want to be there or resistant clients) about their goals or their thoughts on how you can help them.
Start gently exploring, validating - not even assessment or semi-structured interview - explore why therapy will not work for you - what works, what doesn’t
NO ADVICE Or INTERVENTION STRAIGHT AWAY
Stick to structured therapies
For most of the approaches, they will expect you to identify what stage of treatment you are at and what would be the answer if you were at that stage
What are the 9 stages of therapy in general
SEQUENCE OF THERAPY
For most structured approaches:
- Establish rapport and/or therapeutic relationship
- Explore concerns
- Assessment
- Diagnosis and formulation
- Psycho-education, socialization to treatment.
- Develop treatment plan with client (goals, consent, planning) how many sessions
- Intervention (cognitive, behavioural, relationship analysis, expression of affect, problem-solving, etc)
- Evaluate treatment
- Closing: Summarise/consolidate/relapse prevention/discharge/link with other services/follow up
1-6 start
6-20 intervention (10-12 and 20 sessions)
15 - 20 at the end - discharging etc.
LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT LITERATURE REVIEWS
Which therapies go with which disorders?
LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE BASED TREATMENT LITERATURE REVIEWS
1. Depression: CBT, IPT, brief psychodynamic therapy 2. Anxiety: CBT! 3. Personality Disorders: psychodynamic, DBT, schema therapy 4. PTSD: TF-CBT, EMDR, prolonged exposure, psychodynamic 5. AOD: CBT, Motivational Interviewing 6. Adolescent child emotional/behavioural difficulties: Family therapy 7. ADHD: Parent Management training (no CBT with kids, no electrodes in front of a PC!)
What do you need to know about CBT for the exam? Who is it for?
CBT
First choice of treatment for anxiety, phobias, panic, PTSD, depression
• Always think of the two elements: cognitive and behavioural
• Short term and focused
• Negative emotions are elicited by cognitive processes developed through influences of learning and temperament.
• Adverse life events elicit automatic processing, which is viewed as the causal factor.
• Cognitive triad: Negative automatic thoughts centre around our understanding of:
• Ourselves
• Others (the world)
• Future
• Focus on examination of cognitive beliefs and developing rational responses to negative automatic thoughts.
If it’s a general question about CBT - my answer will have to include cognitive and behaviour intervention
Adverse life events can be a factor for dysfunction
What is transference?
Transference is subconsciously associating a person in the present with a past relationship. For example, you meet a new client who reminds you of a former lover. Countertransference is responding to them with all the thoughts and feelings attached to that past relationship.
What is countertransference?
Transference is subconsciously associating a person in the present with a past relationship. For example, you meet a new client who reminds you of a former lover.
Countertransference is responding to them with all the thoughts and feelings attached to that past relationship.
COGNITIVE STRATEGIES
CHALLENGING, RESTRUCTURING- What are the steps?
- Define Situation
- Clarify meaning of cognitive appraisal
- What was going through your mind just then?
- What did the situation mean for you?
- Evaluate interpretation
- Evidence: For and against this belief?
- Alternatives:Any other explanation(s)?
- Implications: So what….?
BEHAVIOURAL STRATEGIES
EXPOSURE - what is exposure?
Exposure involves systematic, repeated, and prolonged presentation of objects, situations, or stimuli (either internal or external) that are avoided because of anxiety-provoking properties.