Psychological Therapies Flashcards
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CBT concepts
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- Thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and behaviours are interconnected
- Negative thoughts and feelings can trap you in a vicious cycle
- These automatic negative thoughts often reinforce an underlying deeply held belief about yourself
2
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Thinking styles
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- Automatic negative thoughts
- These styles are normal everyday occurences but are:
- Experienced more frequently
- Harder to challenge
- Helpful/balancing thoughts are crowded out
3
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CBT 5 areas model
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4
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What is CBT used for?
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- Depression
- Anxiety
- OCD
- Eating disorders
- Phobias
- Panic
5
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Psychodynamic therapy
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- Past relationships recreated in current relationships
- Transference
- Counter-transference
- Aims to improve insight and identify unhelpful unconscious processes and defence mechanisms
- Also to improve management of distress - transform neurotic misery into common unhappiness
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Defence mechanisms
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- Projection: attributing unacceptable feelings/thoughts to someone else
- Splitting: all good/all bad
- Displacement
- Repression (unconscious) vs suppression (conscious): “forgetting”
- Intellectualisation: focusing on facts, ignoring emotional content
- Rationalisation: rational justifications/excuses for behaviour
- Sublimation: unacceptable feelings/thoughts into acceptable channel
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Family (Systemic) Therapy
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- Mainly CAMHS
- Family seen together
- Symptom is not a problem of the child but of whole family system
- Use one-way screen and reflective team to promote effective communication patterns within the family
- Circular questioning
- Therapist and team take a ‘one-down’ approach
8
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Counselling
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- Most commonly delivered
- Mainly in primary care
- Usually short term
- Aims to help person become clearer about problems so they can come up with their own answers
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Motivational interviewing
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- More focused - specific goal (i.e. in alcoholism)
- Remains non-confrontational
