Talking therapies Flashcards
Explain DBT
Originally developed to help individuals cope with extreme emotions that would often result in harmful behaviours, DBT works towards reducing one’s emotional distress
o Teaches patients skills for regulating and accepting emotions and increasing
interpersonal effectiveness
o Increases emotional and cognitive regulation by learning the triggers that lead to reactive states and help to
assess coping skills in the sequence of events, thoughts, feelings and behaviours to avoid undesired results.
More specifically, DBT focuses on skills training and includes mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness and distress tolerance.
Explain transference focused therapy
Treatment relies on the recognition of symptoms as internal factors and emotional states, not as manifestations visible to the naked eye.
Both client and therapist continually develop and hone their awareness of the client’s symptoms or problematic behaviors throughout the course of treatment, not just during assessment or the initial phase of therapy.
Explain mentalization based therapy
Mentalization-based therapy helps patients think before they react to their own feelings or to the perceived feelings of others. With an improved ability to mentalize, patients not only process their own thoughts, feelings, and related behaviors differently, they also better understand that another person’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior may differ from their own interpretation.
The goal of mentalizing is for patients to not only better understand themselves but also to improve theory of mind regarding others and to think about what may be driving other people’s thoughts and behaviors. Such an ability will help the patient avoid misinterpreting another person’s meaning and respond appropriately to them.
explain CBT
o Based on the principle that thinking, emotion, behaviour and physical sensations are all interconnected and influence each other
o CBT centres on changing people’s cognitive thinking to change their emotional state – works on current conscious mind only (not looking at the
past)
o changes thoughts and feelings in reaction to a situation
o Identifies triggers, high-risk situations
o Usually minimum of 4-6 - 16-18
o Exploration of specific topics as
indicated by the current problem list and ways of dealing
explain IPT (major depression, anxiety)
Life events (including relationships) play a role in the development of psychopathology +Recent interpersonal
events are linked to mood or other problems
o 12-16 hour-long weekly sessions, present focused (here and now)
o Focuses on interpersonal deficits,
role disputes, role transition and grief
explain family therapy
o Presenting sx are an expression of ongoing family dynamics (e.g depression following parental divorce)
o Eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia)
o Substance abuse
o Individual is influenced by their family system
Imbalances in the system leads to the
problems patient (who is a reflection of the dysfunction of the family)
o Psychological treatment of the family unit to resolve relational problems
