Talk Therapies Flashcards
What is counselling generally for?
- Depression
- Traumatic life events eg. bereavment
- Fertility issues
What are the two broad types of CBT?
- Face to face
- Guided self help
What is face to face CBT generally for?
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Panic disorder
- Phobias
- OCD
- PTSD
- Some eating disorders eg. Bullaemia
What is psychodynamic psychotherapy for?
Short term courses can be offered for depression or SUs with depression and a long term health condition
What is interpersonal therapy for?
Depression
What is cognitive analytic therapy used for?
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Self-harm
- Personal/ relationship issues
What is dialectical behavioural therapy used for?
EUPD
What is mentalisation based therapy used for?
EUPD
What is eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy used for?
PTSD
What is guided self help CBT?
Online working through a CBT-type work book with support of a therapist either over the phone, online or face to face
What is face to face CBT?
Working through emotions, thoughts and behaviours (and how they influence each other) with a therapist
5-20 sessions lasting 30-60 minutes
What is counselling?
Working with a therapist to understand your own feelings and improve understanding of coping mechanisms (don’t usually offer advice)
What is behavioural activation for?
Depression
What is behavioural activation?
Therapy focussed on taking small, practical steps for people with depression to enjoy life again
- Can be done 1-2-1 or in a group
- Improves problem solving skills and mood problems
- 16-20 sessions
What is interpersonal therapy?
Identifying and addressing problems in relationships with family, partners and friends
- Mild-moderate depression that hasn’t responded to CBT
What is EMDR?
Recalling (in head) the traumatic memory whilst moving eyes side to side and either:
- Feeling a tap on each hand
- Hearing a sound in each ear
What is the theory of EMDR?
Stimulation helps to unstick the unprocessed memory, reliant on improving the client’s own accelerated intellectual and emotional processing (no talking about the trauma)
What is psychodynamic psychotherapy?
Processing childhood memories and the unconscious mind and how these impact thoughts, actions and feelings
What is DBT?
Focusses on the two factors that contribute to negative cycles in EUPD:
1. Emotional vulnerability eg. small amounts of stress leading to high anxiety
2. Growing up in an environment where emotions were dismissed
Addresses this by:
1. Validating emotions
2. Dialetics - not everything is black and white and improving acceptance to being open to ideas that aren’t your own
Group and individual sessions
What is mentalisation based therapy?
Focusses on poor capacity to mentalise - think about feelings and to recognise other beliefs and thoughts and acknowledge that your interpretation may not always be correct
What is cognitive analytic therapy?
Examining how early life experiences influence the way we relate to other people and treat ourselves
Aiming to identify problematic behavioural patterns developed during childhood
What is CBT with exposure and response prevention?
Used for OCD and some phobias:
- CBT - breakdown thoughts, feelings and behaviours
- Exposure and response prevention - face your fears and have obsessive thoughts without neutralising them with compulsive behaviours (start with situations which cause the least anxiety and move onto more difficult thoughts)
What is sensate focussed therapy?
Used for patients with low libido:
1. Intercourse banned
2. Non genital caressing (focus on pleasure and relaxation)
3. Genital touching (focus on arousal and then orgasm)
4. Intercourse naturally with time
What is networking therapy?
Used for substance misuse
Combination of CBT and psychodynamic psychotherapy individual therapy and engaging the patient in a group support network composed of family members and peers
