Pyschological Therapy Flashcards
What are the 2 psychological therapies?
CBT
Family therapy
What are the aims of CBT?
Help clients identify irrational thoughts (e.g. hallucinations and delusions) and try to change them
What’s the range of CBT sessions needed?
5-20 sessions, individually or in a group
in CBT clients are helped to make … of how their delusions and hallucinations…. On their feelings and …
Sense
Impact
Behaviour
Who treated a paranoid patient who believed the
Mafia were plotting to kill him?
Turkington
What did the therapist (turkington) do to understand his symptoms?
Acknowledged anxiety
Less frightening possibilities
Gently challenged patients evidence for his beliefs
What is the aim of family therapy?
To reduce levels of expressed emotion , especially negative symptoms e.g. anger and guilt
Why is reducing stress important?
To reduce the likelihood of relapse
What does a therapist encourage family members to form ?
A therapeutic alliance
What is a therapeutic alliance ?
they all (family) agree on the aim of the therapy
The therapist tires to improve families what?
Beliefs about behaviour towards schizophrenia
What is another aim of FT that family never a must ensure?
That there is a balance between caring for sz individual and Maintaining their own lives
Who created 7 phases for FT?
Burbach
What does phase 1&2 involve in FT?
Share info and identify resources family can offer
What is phase 3&4 in FT ?
Learn mutual understanding and look at unhelpful patterns of interaction
