Psychotherapy Flashcards
What are some (relative) contraindications for brief psychodynamic therapy?
-Severe depression
-Acute psychosis
-substance abuse
-EUPD
(Marked acting out, serious suicide attempts)
What is a technique used in Moreno’s psychodrama?
Representational role reversal
What are some signs of Resistance in pychoanalysis?
- asking irrelevant questions
- fidgetting
- intellectualising events
- being late for appointments
What is a problem with hypnosis?
-sudden removal of symptoms by suggestion under hypnosis can lead to rebound anxiety and depression
What are Yalom’s therapeutic factors in group therapy?
Universality (removes group members sense of isolation)
Altruism (the experience of helping anther group member)
Instillation of hope (seeing other members who have progressed in therapy)
Imparting information (learning from others)
Corrective recapitulation of the primary family experience (therapists analysis of transference)
Development of socialising techniques (practicing social skills)
Imitative behaviour (using other members as models)
Cohesiveness (feeling part of the group)
Existential factors (taking responsibility)
Catharsis (relief from expressing emotion)
Interpersonal learning (using feedback from other members)
Self understanding (insight)
Who was the founder of group analysis who propounded the idea of a social matrix?
Foulkes
type of family therapy in which past experiences of a family are thought to be responsible for present conflicts
Psychodynamic family therapy
Transference is most intense when working with which of the following client group?
EUPD
What is Transference?
Transferenceis the phenomenon whereby we unconsciously transfer feelings and attitudes from a person or situation in the past on to a person or situation in the present.
Which factors increase Transference?
Borderline personality disorder
Anxiety
Frequent contact with key worker
Ways to effectively manage
Recognise the importance of the relationship to the patient
Maintaining professional boundaries and clear limits in treatment
Interpreting the transference
Being a reliable therapist (missing appointments and being unreliable will complicate the transference)
What is Countertransference?
Countertransferenceis the response that is elicited in the therapist by the patient’s unconscious transference communications.
A projected role may be very different from any aspect of his or her personality and the recipient is able to recognise that this perception of his or feelings or behaviour is a product of the patient’s mind.
However, a role may be congruent with an aspect of the therapist’s personality and he or she may unconsciously accept and collude with the projection
What is socratic questioning and which Psychotherapy is it used in?
Socratic questioning (sometimes referred to as the Socratic method) involves a disciplined and thoughtful dialogue
Cognitive therapy uses a technique called Socratic questioning to elicit false beliefs called negative automatic thoughts.
Dichotomous thinking
The tendency to see things as black and white rather than shades of grey
Personalisation
Incorrectly assuming that things happen due to us. Attributing external events to oneself when there is actually no causal relationship
Overgeneralisation
Coming to a general conclusion based on a single piece of evidence
Arbitrary inference
Drawing of an unjustified conclusion
Selective abstraction
Concentrating on the negative while ignoring the positives
Catastrophising
Expecting disaster from relatively trivial events
Filtering
Selecting out only negative aspects of a situation and leaving out the positive
Control Fallacies
Believing we are responsible for everything (internal control fallacy) or nothing (external control fallacy)
Fallacy of Fairness
Believing that life is fair
Blaming
Holding other responsible for our distress
Shoulds
Preconceived rules we believe (often incorrect) which makes us angry when others don’t obey them