Introduction Flashcards
What is a scientist practioner?
- applying psychological science to clinical practice
- trained in empirical research skills
- emphasised scientific knowledge
What is a reflective practitioner?
- ability to reflect on the work they are doing
- general reflection + self reflection
What are the 4 Key Tasks of a Clinical Psychologist?
- Assessment
- Formulation
- Intervention
- Evaluation
What is assessment?
understanding the problems that a client is experiencing, what may have caused these problems and be maintaining them, and how the client would like to change
What is formulation?
The use of clinical information to draw up a psychological explanation of the client’s problems and to develop a plan for therapy
What is intervention?
Psychological treatment, implemented on the bases of the formulation - may be based on multiple theoretical approaches and may be co-designed with the client
What is evaluation?
The stage of treatment that seeks to ensure any intervention is having the desired effect - can be achieved in a number of ways
What questions does the assessor consider?
- What are the difficulties being experienced?
- What has led this person to have these problems?
- Why are they seeking help now?
- How can they be helped?
What methods of assessment are there?
- Clinical Interview
- Psychometrics
- Self-monitoring
- Observation
Explain the 3 sections of the BioPsychoSocial model.
Biological - genetics, physiology, neurology
Psychological - thoughts, emotions, memories
Social - relationships, family, culture, society
Formulations seek to explain the problem in terms of what?
- Development - how did it begin?
- Maintenance - what is keeping it going?
What are the 5Ps?
- Predisposing Factors
- Precipitating Factors
- Protective Factors
- Perpetuating Factors
- Presenting Problems
What are predisposing factors?
What made this person vulnerable in the first place?
What are precipitating factors?
What triggered this episode?
What are protective factors?
positive things this person has going for them
What are perpetuating factors?
Maintaining factors - things that keep the problem going
Examples of Interventions
- Talk about it and feel heard
- Behavioural Experiments
- Behavioural Activation
- Cognitive Restructuring
- Graded Exposure
What is the role of CBT?
- Highlights the importance of cognitions and how these influence and are influenced by mood, bodily sensations and behaviour
- Helping people to understand and modify unhelpful cognitions and behaviours
Who developed CBT?
- Aaron T. Beck (1960s)
- In parallel with Albert Ellis (1960s) - Rational-Emotive-Therapy
How did psychoanalytic tradition influence CBT?
The view of one’s self is central to determining behaviour
How did phenomenology influence CBT?
Focus on individual subjective experience
How did structural theory influence CBT?
Ideas about how we develop more advanced and adaptive ways of knowing the world
How did academic cognitive psychology influence CBT?
Emphasis on the importance of cognition in information processing & behavioural change
What is a constructivist model?
Individual creates knowledge
Idiosyncratic
Emphasis on whether knowledge is viable and adaptive
What is a rationalist model?
Emphasis on knowledge being accurate and true
What does CBT understand a problem in terms of?
- Cognitions
- Behaviours
- Emotions
- Physiology
Explain the hot cross bun theory?
A situation leads to:
- Thoughts
- Feelings
- Behaviour
- Physiology
and they are all interlinked
What are the 3 layers of cognition? (Christine Podesky)
- Core Beliefs
- Rules for living
- Automatic thoughts
What are core beliefs?
- Unconditional
- Formed in childhood
- Self, world, future
What are rules for living?
- Conditional rules we develop in order to make sense of the world
- Often help people to cope with a negative core belief
- IF…THEN… format