IPT for Individual Therapy Flashcards
What is a corrective emotional experience?
Helping the Ct identify, work through, disconfirm, or change problematic interpersonal patterns or themes (focusing on actions and not words; experiential therapy)
In-vivo and experiential learning
What is the process dimension?
Cts may “enact” or recreate the same types of interactions that bring them to therapy, this makes the here-and-now interaction between Therapist and Ct very important
Process > content
What is client response specificity?
Therapist tailors responses to Ct
Flexible nature of interventions/communication
Importance of Accurate Empathy
What are the 3 types of insecure attachment?
Dismissive, preoccupied, fearful
What is dismissive attachment?
Person is low in overt/expressed attachment anxiety, high avoidance
Do not easily seek support when distressed
What is preoccupied attachment?
High anxiety, low in avoidance
High anxiety about support seeking, they seek support when distressed but are anxious attachment figure will not sustain interest in them or remain sufficiently responsive
What is fearful attachment?
High anxiety and high avoidance
Intensely conflicted approach-avoidance
They want relationships but because of abuse histories, approaching others is uncomfortable/frightening/triggering of past trauma or loss
What are process comments?
meta-communication which addresses the interpersonal dynamics in the therapeutic relationship
What are internal working models?
enduring mental representation of caregiver-child relationships (internalizations of attachment relationships)
What is strain trauma?
repetitive family transactional patterns which shape long-standing symptoms and problems
What are early maladaptive schemas?
How does this theory describe a person’s distress?
- Persistent misattunement and invalidation in the Ct’s family of origin, which can lead to inefficacy or disempowerment
- There may be early maladaptive schemas (EMS) → stable and enduring themes that develop from ongoing patterns of parent-child interaction during childhood that are significantly dysfunctional, elaborated and extend on into adulthood
- There may be insecure attachment styles (avoidant, ambivalent, disorganized)
How does this theory describe health?
- Ct works toward secure attachment
- Ct works toward support new and empowering schemas
3.Ct is capable of self-observation, introspection
4.Ct feels empowered to make their own decisions, take on responsibility for change
- Ct realizes they may be working with EMS, they recognize they can respond in new ways
What is the working alliance?
Shared ownership of the change process facilitated through collaborative engagement between Ct & Therapist (most closely linked to 3 Rogerian conditions; strong predictor of treatment outcomes); attunement is key; identify recurrent patterns/themes
What does a therapist provide in session?
Therapist provides a safe haven and secure base → affective containment
Safe haven - someone who can comfort while they are in distress
Secure base - someone who can support them to venture out, explore, and become independent