Interventions - Chap 11,12

Question 1

short-term psychodynamic therapy

Answer 1

a treatment approach that emphasizes bringing to awareness unconscious processes, especially as they are expressed in interpersonal relationships, and helping the client to understand and alter these processes.

Question 2

transference

Answer 2

: the unconscious application of expectations and emotional experiences, based on important early relationships, to subsequent interpersonal relationships.

Question 3

interpersonal psychotherapy

Answer 3

: a treatment approach that emphasizes interpersonal elements in the development, maintenance, and alteration of psychological problems (especially grief, role disputes, role transitions, and interpersonal deficits).

Question 4

process-experiential therapy

Answer 4

: a treatment approach that emphasizes the importance of becoming aware of emotions, understanding and expressing emotions, and transforming maladaptive to adaptive emotions.

Question 5

cognitive-behavioural therapy

Answer 5

y: a treatment approach that emphasizes the role of thoughts and behaviour in psychological problems and, therefore, focuses on altering beliefs, expectations, and behaviours in order to improve the client’s functioning.

Question 6

stepped care

Answer 6

: an approach to health care service delivery in which lower-cost interventions are offered first, with more intensive and more costly interventions being provided only to those for whom the first-line intervention was insufficient.

Question 7

telehealth

Answer 7

: the delivery of health care services via telephone, videoconferencing, or computermediated communications.

Question 8

self-administered treatment:

Answer 8

treatment that the client engages in with no or minimal contact with a mental health professional.
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Question 9

common factors

Answer 9

: therapeutic elements that occur in all or most treatments and are believed to be critical for successful client outcomes.

Question 10

Dodo bird verdict:

Answer 10

in the context of psychotherapy research, the view that all psychotherapies are equally effective.

Question 11

empirically based principles of therapeutic change:

Answer 11

client, therapist, therapeutic relationship, and treatment factors that research has found to be associated with successful treatment.

Question 12

evidence-based psychotherapy relationships:

Answer 12

aspects of the therapeutic relationship that research has found to be associated with successful treatment.

Question 13

integrative treatment models:

Answer 13

theoretical models that explicitly incorporate into their framework aspects of multiple theoretical approaches and, frequently, common factors.

Question 14

process-outcome research:

Answer 14

research that examines the relation between variables related to the process of providing psychotherapy and the outcome of therapy.

Question 15

process research:

Answer 15

research that examines patterns, using therapist and/or client data, that are evident within and across therapy sessions.

Question 16

reactance:

Answer 16

the tendency to react against attempts to directly influence one’s behaviour.

Question 17

therapeutic alliance/relationship:

Answer 17

a concept that encompasses the use of a client’s perception
–> accounts for 12% of outcomes
“ My therapist understood/ accepted/likes me “

Question 18

causes for improvement

Answer 18

• regression towards to mean
• passage of time/life factors
• getting out of the house
• supportive relationship
• voice of reason

Question 19

Hawthorne Effect

Answer 19

• participants increased output simply as a result of being in a study.

Question 20

Client factors

Answer 20

--> influence change 
personality disorders
psychological mindedness
ego strength
psuchological reactance ( tendency to act against attempts to influence

Question 21

Psychological reactance

Answer 21

• low reactant: best with directive treatment

- high reactants: best with less directive treatemetn.