Psychological Therapies

Question 1

This deck will cover various non-pharmacological therapies for psychological disorders including:

Answer 1

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Behavioural Acitvation
Interpersonal Therapy
Motivational Interviewing

Question 2

What is CBT?

Answer 2

Investigating how our thought, feelings and behaviour relate to eachother

Question 3

What does the therapist do during CBT?

Answer 3

They help the patient identify their process of thought->feeling->Behaviour

Then identify what thoughts are unrealistic or unhelpful and help to change them

Question 4

What does the patient do during CBT?

Answer 4

They do “homework” that involves challenging the bad thoughts through Graded exposure and Response prevention

Question 5

CBT for example:

1) Patient sees a friend on the street who apparently ignores them
2) Patient thinks they ignored me they must not like me
3) Patient feels low sad & rejected
4) Patient goes home and avoids contact

Answer 5

The therapist would identify this chain and help the patient to challenge the unhelpful assumption

Question 6

What is behavioural activation?

Answer 6

A way of promoting activities to tackle underlying problems & stop the patient doing activities that avoid the problem e.g. avoiding friends, sleeping a lot and comfort eating because of anxiety

Question 7

What is interpersonal therapy (IPT)?

Answer 7

Therapy that identifies an interpersonal event linked to the patient’s depressive symptoms and from there improve interpersonal functioning to reduce depressive symptoms

Question 8

what is motivational interviewing?

Answer 8

A technique where the therapist guides the patient to find motivation for a behaviour change.
It’s all about building motivation so it’s important the patient sets their own agenda and ideas of what they could change