psychotherapy Flashcards
- What are the 3 main objectives or goals of Psychotherapy
- Removing, modifying or retarding existing symptoms
- Mediating disturbed patterns of behavior
- Promoting positive personality growth and development
- This refers to the unconscious feeling of the therapist based on his interpersonal relationships in the past. Could manifest as boredom or sleepiness in a session.
Countertransference
- Unconscious feeling of patient towards psychiatrist. It is generated because of the patient’s past based on childhood figures
Transference
- These are the Old types of Psychotherapy
Supportive, Re – educative, Reconstructive
- These are the New types of Psychotherapy
Supportive (Relationship – oriented), Expressive (Insight – Oriented)
- The Expressive/Insight – Oriented Psychotherapy puts emphasis on
Interpretation, Confrontation and Clarification
- A subtype of psychoanalytic psychotherapy that is more inclined to use a relationship – oriented, suggestive, suppressive or repressive approach in treating the patient
Supportive Psychotherapy
- This subtype of psychotherapy attempts to provide insight into the patient
’s unconscious processes such as increase in patient’s self – awareness
Expressive Psychotherapy
- The goal of expressive psychotherapy to increase the patient’s self – awareness and to improve object relations is achieved through this process
Exploration of current interpersonal events and perceptions
- T or F. In Expressive psychotherapy, only limited or controlled regression is encouraged and positive transference manifestation are generally left unexplored unless they are impeding therapeutic progress
True
- Limitation of Expressive Psychotherapy s
Problem of emotional integration of cognitive awarenes
- Despite having productive lives and enjoying wide range of activities with less conflict why does least impaired individual seek psychotherapy
Because of Self – destructive patterns in interpersonal relationship.
- What are the goals of supportive psychotherapy
- Support reality testing
- Provide ego support
- Maintain or reestablish usual level of functioning
- Sublimation in unconscious form is
Defense mechanism
- If sublimation is made conscious it is known as
Coping mechanism
- Indication for supportive psychotherapy
For patients whom classic psychoanalysis or insight – oriented psychoanalytic psychotherapy is contraindicated. For instance those who have poor ego strength and potential for decompensation is high.
- What is the goal of supportive psychotherapy
Relief of symptoms through behavioral or environmental restructuring within the existing psychic framework. This means helping the patient to adapt better to problems and to live more comfortably with his or her psychopathology
- What are the factors affecting reactions to stress
Age, Health, Personality issues, prior experience with stressful events, support and belief systems, Underlying biological or genetic vulnerability
- This is a therapeutic process aimed at restoring homeostatic balance and diminishing vulnerability to the stressor
Crisis Intervention
- How to achieve homeostasis in crisis intervention
Mobilizing the individual’s abilities and social network and promoting adaptive coping mechanisms
- Best predictor of success in psychotherapy
Therapeutic alliance
- The most potent factor in psychotherapy
Patient/client capacity for self healing
- What are the three levels of psychotherapy according to Lievegoed
- Mutual Help
- Actual Psychotherapy
- Psychiatry Proper (Classic Psychiatry)
- T or F. The hippocampus is sensitive to the ravages of stress, aging and disease but also endowed with the ability to restore itself through production, migration and differentiation of precursor cells into new functioning neurons.
True
- Neurogenesis in the hippocampus may be stimulated through
Learning, Psychotherapy, Exercise, Endogenous Growth Factors and Psychopharmacologic agents
- Based on the common factor theory the most robust predictor of outcome is the
Therapist
- In actual psychotherapy stage, the prime importance is
Liberty and Dignity of person
- In tripartite model the ego is represented by
Attribution of meaning and Objectives
- In tripartite model the body refers to
Drives and desires
- The core of tripartite model
Human soul or Psyche
