Psychotherapy for Mental Disorders Flashcards
Why is the therapeutic relationship important in psychotherapy?
Therapy is based within the context of the therapeutic relationship, which is essential for effective treatment.
What orientation towards the client is crucial for therapeutic efficacy?
A humanistic orientation.
What philosophy focuses on building the client’s capacity in therapy?
A strength-based philosophy.
what is psychodynamic psychotherapy?
a therapeutic approach that focuses on the unconscious processes that influence a person’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Rooted in the theories of Sigmund Freud and later developments in psychoanalysis, this form of therapy aims to help individuals understand and resolve their emotional difficulties by exploring their past experiences, relationships, and internal conflicts.
What is a primary goal of psychodynamic psychotherapy?
To increase self-awareness and understanding of one’s behavior.
What is the primary focus of existential therapy?
It focuses on exploring the meaning of life, personal freedom, and individual responsibility.
How do therapists facilitate existential therapy?
By creating a supportive environment that encourages self-exploration and deep reflection on life’s questions.
What is congruence in person-centered therapy?
Congruence refers to the therapist being genuine, where their inner feelings match their outward expressions.
What does unconditional positive regard mean in person-centered therapy?
It means the therapist accepts and values the client without judgment, believing the client can solve their own problems.
How does empathy function in person-centered therapy?
Empathy allows the therapist to understand the client’s feelings and experiences as they are communicated in the moment.
What types of problems is Gestalt therapy particularly helpful for?
It is helpful for personality disturbances, psychosomatic problems, and substance addictions.
How does Gestalt therapy differ from person-centered therapy?
While both emphasize the therapeutic relationship, Gestalt therapy focuses more on awareness and experience in the here-and-now.
What are the key principles of Gestalt therapy?
Awareness of the present moment, personal responsibility, and the importance of the therapist-client relationship.
What is the primary focus of behavior therapy?
ehavior therapy focuses on the present and gives little weight to an individual’s past.
Describe the empirical model employed in behavior therapy.
It involves rigorous assessment, goal setting by the client and therapist, treatment planning, frequent evaluation, and plan revision.
What is the theoretical basis of behavior therapy?
Learning theory, which posits that abnormal behaviors result from faulty learning.
What is the goal of behavior therapy?
To help individuals unlearn maladaptive behaviors while learning adaptive behaviors.
Name some current strategies used in behavior therapy.
Progressive muscle relaxation, systematic desensitization, social skills training, setting realistic goals, mindfulness, and dialectical behavior therapy.
What is the primary aim of cognitive therapy?
To help clients identify distortions in their thinking and understand how these distortions lead to problems in their lives.
What types of issues is behavior therapy currently applied to?
Anxiety disorders, depression, PTSD, substance abuse, eating disorders, sexual problems, pain management, and hypertension.
What is the central premise of cognitive therapy?
Feelings and behaviors are determined by personal interpretations of life experiences.
What is the process involved in cognitive therapy?
Identifying erroneous beliefs and assumptions to reframe and adjust thoughts to more positive interpretations.
What is personalization in cognitive distortions?
Relating negative events to oneself without any basis for doing so.
Define automatic thoughts.
Learned thought responses that may not be valid or accurate.
Explain selective abstraction.
Focusing only on certain aspects of a situation, usually the most negative.
What is dichotomous thinking?
Seeing things in black-and-white terms, or all-or-nothing thinking.
What does magnification-minimization involve?
Distorting the importance of particular events, either by exaggerating or downplaying them.
What is dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) used for?
It addresses emotional dysregulation and improves distress tolerance skills, particularly for personality disorders.
What is the central focus of Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)?
The focus is on relationships and how past problems, issues, and conflicts express themselves in relationship problems or mood disorders.
Describe schema therapy.
It takes a global approach to self-fulfilling relationship problems stemming from unhealthy childhood relationships, with a central focus on a genuine and trustworthy therapeutic relationship.
What does cognitive-analytic therapy focus on?
Changing coping patterns learned in childhood to skills that are more effective for adulthood, with an important but not central therapeutic relationship.
What common topics are addressed in IPT?
Transitional roles, self-identity, failed expectations, and communication problems.
What is the main premise of Reality Therapy?
Unhappy or unsatisfying relationships are at the root of behavioral problems, and behaviors are chosen to cope with relationship frustrations.
What does Choice Therapy emphasize?
t posits that behavior is purposeful and designed to close the gap between what one wants and what they perceive they are getting.
What is the general focus of postmodern therapy?
It focuses on identifying strengths and resources rather than diagnoses and underlying causes of mental dysfunction.
What is the therapeutic approach in Reality and Choice Therapy?
A collaborative process where the therapist and client make plans to change the client’s behavior.
How does postmodern therapy approach problems?
It emphasizes creating solutions in the present and future rather than talking about problems.
What is a key philosophy in postmodern therapy?
The person is not the problem; the problem is the problem.”
How are therapy sessions typically structured in postmodern therapy?
Sessions tend to be brief or few, collaborative, and empowering.
For which conditions is postmodern therapy particularly well-suited?
Adjustment disorders, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.
What is supportive psychotherapy?
it relies on an empathetic relationship to encourage expression of feelings and provide problem-solving assistance.
when is supportive psychotherapy typically used?
For adjustment disorders, crises, stress, and health behavior change.
What does Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) emphasize?
That people can move forward quickly and should not be immobilized by unresolved past conflicts.
How does narrative therapy help clients?
By examining problems as external issues and constructing a new story through conversation and questioning.
What does narrative therapy focus on?
The influence of social, cultural, and political contexts on personal stories and how they shape self-perception.
