Psychological therapies

Question 1

What is cognitive behaviour therapy?

Answer 1

• Identify thoughts feelings and behaviours
• Asses what thoughts are unrealistic or unhelpful
• Automatic negative thoughts
• Unrealistic beliefs
• Cognitive distortions
• Catastrophizing
• Perfectionism

Client engages in homework which challenges the unrealistic or unhelpful thoughts

• Graded exposure
• Response prevention

Question 2

What is behavioural activation theory and rationale?

Answer 2

• Activities function as avoidance and escape from aversive thoughts, feelings and external situations
• Found activity scheduling alone for depression as effective for depression as affective for CBT and

Question 3

What is interpersonal therapy psychotherapy?

Answer 3

• Focuses on the affect of an interpersonal event
• Depression often follows a disturbing change in contigent with a signifcant I-P evet

Bereavement
Dispute
Role transition
Interpersonal deficit

Question 4

What is motivational interviewing?

Answer 4

• Promotes behaviour change in a wide range of health care services
• More effective than advice giving
• Used where behaviour change is being considered, when patient may be unmotivated or ambivalent to change

Principes of MI

• Express empathy
  Understand person’s predicament
• Avoid argument
  If challanging patients position, make defensive