Short Answer Psychotherapy Flashcards
What is the difference between psychotherapy and psychological treatments?
Psychotherapy is more general so anyone can refer to themselves as psychotherapists but psychological treatments are targeted to clinically significant disorders
How do we define success in psychotherapy?
For the most part, measurement of the symptoms is used
Who practises cycle therapy?
Clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, counselors, social workers and paraprofessional such as social service agencies and crisis intervention centres
What are the 6 psychoanalytic approaches?
Free association, interpretation, dream analysis, resistance, transference, working through
Tasks of the psychodynamic therapy
Developing a positive transference relationship and identifying important themes
- Analyzing the transference relationship
- Terminating therapy
CBT view on individuals with psychopathology
– Have more negative automated thoughts about self, others and world
– make unreasonable demands of themselves and others
-see the world in black-and-white
-Ignore positives and focus on negatives
Cognitive distortions
– Absolute/black and white/dichotomous thinking – Magnification and minimization – Personalization/negative attribution – fortune-telling/catastrophization – Labelling – “should” statements
CBT versus drugs
CBT along with behavioural activation have the lowest rate of a drop out and relapse date than medications
-They also have a higher chance of success rate than antidepressants
Criticisms of CBT
CBT may work, but no one knows why it works
-It doesn’t work for the substantial minority
-CBT make and do an oppressive conditions
Effects of CBT have been going down every time
Three essential skills of mindfulness
- orienting attention at will to present moment experiences
- De-Centring the self from experiences
- Expecting experiences as they come
Greater exposure steps
- think of something you avoid and want to stop avoiding, then think of tests that are similar but easier to do
- Rank tasks from easiest to hardest
- Pick an easy task then work your way up
Why might group therapies be better than individual therapies?
It is less costly, efficient and more time-saving
-It’s as good if not better for certain disorders like social anxiety because it promotes working with others
