psychotherapies Flashcards
What are four categories of psychotherapy
Cognitive and behavioural
Exploratory
Systemic
Supportive
What are examples of cognitive and behavioural therapies
CBT
DBT
Examples of exploratory therapies
Psychodynamic therapies
IPT
Example of systemic therapy
Family therapy
What happens in psychodynamic therapy?
Patient free association and the therapist interprets.
What is transferance in psychodynamic therapy?
The patient transmits feelings to their therapist, which actually apply to someone in his or her present life or past
What is countertransferance in psychodynamic therapy?
The therapist’s response to the patient
What is IPT?
A form of psychotherapy that focuses on you and your relationships with other people. It’s based on the idea that personal relationships are at the centre of psychological problems.
how does counselling differ?
Safe space to talk about things, often after a specific event. Often don’t have a diagnostic criteria, evidence poor for actualy psychiatric disorders eg. OCD- not likely to produce change in the problem.
What is systemic therapy?
When you talk to the whole ‘system’ e.g. family. As they might be part of the problem
What is family therapy particularly useful for?
Eating disorders
Schizophrenia
What is supportive therapy?
Supportive psychotherapy is the attempt by a therapist bv any practical means whatever to help patients deal with their emotional distress and problems in living. It includes comforting, advising, encouraging, reassuring, and mostly listening, attentively and sympathetically.
e.g. a GP who can be aware of all the patient’s stressors (?)
In CBT for every situation there are what four things that interact?
Thought
Feeling
Behaviour
Physiology
Why might someone have poor self esteem/negative world view?
Could be early life experiences
What is meant by arbitrary inference?
Jumping to conclusions
