Other Therapeutic Techniques Flashcards
What is Diaphragmatic Breathing?
A relaxation technique focusing on slow, deep breaths using the diaphragm and abdominal muscles. This helps boost oxygen in the blood, lowers blood pressure and heart rate, and reduces muscle tension.
What is Exposure and Ritual Prevention (ExRP) therapy?
A gold standard treatment for OCD that helps individuals confront fears through gradual exposure while refraining from compulsive rituals.
-To help patients learn to tolerate anxiety and recognize that feared outcomes are unlikely.
-Formerly known as Exposure and Response Prevention.
Define Family Mapping/Genogram.
A pictorial display of a person’s family relationships.
What is Family Sculpting?
A method where family members physically arrange themselves to represent their relationships to one another.
What does Family Tracking involve?
The therapist listens intently to family stories and records events and their sequence to identify patterns in family dynamics.
What is Free Association in psychoanalysis?
A technique where patients relate whatever comes to mind without censorship, aiming to explore thoughts and feelings in a nonjudgmental atmosphere.
What is Hydrotherapy?
The use of exercises in a pool as part of treatment for conditions such as arthritis or partial paralysis.
Define Motivational Interviewing.
A semi-directive, client-centered counseling style aimed at eliciting behavior change to resolve ambivalence by facilitating and engaging intrinsic motivation.
- More focused and goal-directed than non-directive counseling.
What is the Miracle Question?
An SFBT technique to help clients identify specific ways to work towards their ideal situation by imagining a miracle occurred overnight.
What is Recreational Therapy?
A systematic process using recreation and activity-based interventions to address individual needs.
-Not considered an evidence-based practice.
What does Script Analysis focus on?
The concept that a life plan evolves from early transactions between parents and child, influencing behavior. Scripts are learned and can be changed.
What is Transparent Focus Psychotherapy (TFP)?
A structured, twice weekly treatment based on the object relations model, can be used with borderline personality disorder.
