Quick Study: Therapy Theories Flashcards
Insight oriented therapy
Psychopathology develops especially from early childhood
Identify defense mechanism
Explore client’s transference
Good for high functioning people capable of insight, relationship problems
Psychodynamic Therapy
Identify the problem, monitor behavior, reinforce desired behavior
Behavioral Therapy
A form of operant conditioning in which the increasingly accurate approximations of a desired response are reinforced - successive approximation
Shaping
An exchange system using the principles of operant conditioning where a reward is given for a desired behavior
Token Economy (Contingency Management)
Used to assess the bond between mother and child. Observing how child responds when caregiver leaves and returns to room
Attachment Theory
Good for Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar Disorder
Cognitive Therapy
Brief, goal-oriented therapy focused on client’s strengths and resources.
Focus on what the client wants to achieve instead of focusing on the problems.
Miracle Question
Good for short-term problems
Solution-Focused Therapy
Change through increased awareness of here-and-now experience.
Focuses on the process - what is actually happening, and the content - what is being talked about.
Emphasizes what is going on in the present moment within both the client and therapist, rather than what has happened.
Empty chair technique - example of bringing issue into present moment
Gestalt Therapy
Change through remodeling the family’s organization.
Many family problems arise as a result of maladaptive boundaries and subsystems in the family system.
A systems approach that address relationship dynamics of whole family
Good for families that are having problems with in-laws.
Structural Family Therapy
Change through understanding multigenerational dynamics.
Individuals cannot be understood in isolation from one another but rather as a part of their family.
Family members are drive to achieve a balance of internal and external differentiation, which causes anxiety, triangulation, and emotional cutoff.
Bowen Family Therapy
Change through finding meaning in life
Founded upon the belief that it is the driving to find a meaning in one’s life that is the primary, most powerful motivating and driving force.
Understanding purpose
Logotherapy
Change through recognizing disempowering social forces and empowering client.
The therapist helps the client recognize disempowering forces/influences, a process which can ultimately empower the client.
The therapist recognizes that with every symptom there is a strength, and also shows the client that she is her own rescuer and equal to the therapist.
Good for eating disorders.
Feminist Therapy
Change through supporting clients to take actions to address the problems in their lives.
Focus of help is on client-defined problems and goals.
The client’s problems, goals, and the nature and duration of service are explicitly stated and agreed upon by therapist and client.
Analysis of a problem leads to consideration of the kinds of actions needed to solve it.
Good for lower functioning individuals (e.g. schizophrenia, homeless)
Task-Centered/Problem-Solving Therapy
Aims to change behavioral, emotional, and thinking patterns associated with dysfunction.
Developed to treat intense emotional swings, impulsiveness, confusion regarding self and suicidal behavior.
Teaches mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and self-management.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Change occurs by externalizing problem and creating a new narrative or story, which emphasizes the client’s competencies and strengths.
Problems are viewed as separate entities from the client.
Therapist “externalizes” problem, separate it from client
Highlights “unique outcomes” when the client could resist the problem.
Therapist “maps the influence” of the problem.
Narrative Therapy
To be aware of the complex impact of trauma on a client, including how it affects their efforts to cope.
Therapist understands psychological, neurological, biological, and interpersonal effects of trauma.
Emotional/psychological and physical safety are crucial.
Focus on client’s gaining back control and empowerment in their lives.
Trauma Informed Therapy
Therapy for children and adolescents to treat the effects of trauma.
There are 3 stages -
1. Stabilization: psychoeducation, relaxation skills, and parenting skills
2. Trauma narrative: tell the story of own trauma
3. Integration and consolidation: Focus on enhancing personal safety and future growth
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Alleviates symptoms of trauma through Eye Movement
EMDR - eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
Used to treat a variety of anxiety disorders, exposing client to the object of their fears in a safe environment.
Exposure Therapy
In Exposure Therapy, this is used to treat phobias. It involves the client being exposed to progressively more anxiety provoking situations.
Systematic Desensitization
Helps clients to gradually approach trauma related memories and subsequent feelings.
Uses imaginal and in-person exposure
Imaginal exposure includes the retelling of the trauma memory.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy
What is the “Cognitive Triad” in cognitive therapy?
themselves
world
future
Focus on automatic thoughts about these 3 things
“Miracle Question” is used in which therapy?
Solution-Focused Therapy
Empty chair technique is used in which therapy?
Gestalt
Systems approach, sub-system are focused in which therapy?
Structural Family Therapy
Sub-system – look at maladaptive boundaries
Look at multi-generational family dynamic
Bowen Family Therapy
Change happens through finding meaning/purpose in life - which therapy?
Logotherapy
Good for Eating disorder – educate clients about social forces that affect their view of themselves.
Feminist Therapy
Great with lower functioning individuals who need life skills (transitional youth, schizophrenia, homeless)
Task-centered/Problem-solving therapy
- A manipulation tactic where one person will not communicate directly with another person, instead using a third person to relay communication to the second.
- Which theory does this use?
Triangulation
Bowen Family Therapy
The individual’s capacity for logical thinking,
intelligence, perceptiveness, and self-control over impulses to achieve immediate gratification
Ego Strength
Behaviors, values, and feelings are in harmony with or acceptable to the needs and goals of the ego.
Ego Syntonic
Thoughts, impulses, and behaviors are felt to be repugnant, distressing, unacceptable or inconsistent with one’s self-concept.
Ego Dystonic
This therapy may involve client’s parent(s) and joint parent-child sessions.
Trauma Focused cognitive behavioral therapy
“Id” function
Respond directly and immediately to instincts and impulses.
