Psychological Intervention 1 Flashcards
What is Julians analogy of riding/fixing a bike in relation to practitioners and researchers and interventions?
Practitioner: tries to implement an intervention (riding the bicycle)
Researcher: tried to understand procedural elements and how things work together (repairing, fixing, understanding different parts of a bicycle to fix it)
- Clinical psychologists are trained as researchers but then there is a real art in the procedure of how to implement psychological interventions
What is Julian’s instrument analogy for interventions?
interventions are like teaching a skill (guitar lessons)
Mistake: thinking of psychotherapy as a drug:
- it is not like a drug: it’s like learning guitar, a martial art, artistic swimming, etc.
- A lot of complexity in the variables
- Theres an interpersonal dynamic, relationship unfolding
- Information being taken part
- Learning things to practice and implement in real life
What are 3 different settings where interventions can take place?
- Group Setting
- Individual Setting
- Self-help setting: youtube, self-help books, a movie
Transference vs. countertransference
- the clients experience interacts with your own experiences and your experiences interact with the clients, - when talking to someone you need to always think if you are projecting things from your own life onto the client or seeing clearly
- or is the client projecting fantasies on to you?
Can different theoretical ways of approaching psychological problems for the same problem be useful?
Yes!
- Each psychological model is a simplification (oversimplification) of whats going on but that’s okay if it works
ex: Depression isn’t just one thing, it may explain many different things (loss, thyroid problems, stuck in negative thinking about an event, OCD) the way out may be different for each individual for each of these things
Cognitive Behavioural Psychology:
Aaron Beck:
- “You have to counteract the negative thinking with reality”
- Not to look on the bright side but to look at the way things actually are
○ Getting to the truth of the matter
What is a large factor to consider when thinking of the CBT model?
That people have distorted beliefs
What are three disorders Beck talks about in the film we watched and the beliefs centered around them?
Depression: negative bias towards self (loser, failure)
Anxiety: surrounded by dangers and cant cope with them, doesn’t view himself negatively
Paranoia: victim of abuse, frustration, intrusion, etc…
Different types of thinking disorder:
- selective obstruction
- jumping to conclusions
- overgeneralization
- all or nothing thinking
- focusing on a few sig details but ignores all other details
- mind reading or fortune telling
- seeing a pattern based upon a single event or being very broad in the conclusions we draw
- black and white thinking, “if i’m not perfect, i have failed”, “i either do it right or wrong”
What is the main objective of CBT?
To get a blueprint of the patients thoughts, feelings, behaviours and adjust the patents biased thinking so it conforms a more regular accurate way to the actual external reality
collaborative empiricism:
client and clinician are working together both like scientists to explore what the thoughts are that are related to the problem
guided discovery
through asking questions you explore with them their thoughts, behaviours, emotions to unravel and evaluate mystery of patients problems
a method of discussion that uses questions to help people discover answers, analyze ideas, and develop critical thinking skills
