Theories

Question 1

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

ACT

Answer 1

Targets thoughts and combines acceptance, compassion and commitment
-Stop self defeating emotional, cognitive and behavioral avoidance routines.

Question 2

Affective Therapy

Answer 2

5 Stage Process

A ccept feelings
W anxiety
A ct with anxiety rather than fight
R epeat
E xpect the best

Question 3

Behavioral Activation Therapy

Answer 3

Emotions = behaviors = rumination and avoidant behavior.

Question 4

Cognitive Processing Therapy

Answer 4

Combination of: Exposure therapy, anxiety management training and cognitive restructuring.
- Helpful in treating rape victims and sexual assaults.

Question 5

Dialectical behavior Therapy

Answer 5

Includes support, insight and eastern philosophy
Helpful with:
-Eating disorders
-Borderline Personality Disorder
- Substance use comorbid

Question 6

Eye Movement Desensitization Response

EMDR

Answer 6

Visual, kinesthetic, auditory stimulation with a focus on traumatic memories.

Question 7

Mentalization based Therapy

MBT

Answer 7

Psychodynamic approach/attachment theory

Understand their/others mental states, faulty thinking about relationships which trigger fears of abandonment.

Question 8

Mindfulness Based Therapy

Answer 8

Present moment, meditation and relaxation.

• Clients become aware of their thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations.

Question 9

Panic Control Therapy

PCT

Answer 9

CBT approach focusing on mistaken beliefs about meaning of bodily sensations.

• Psychoeducation, relaxation, cognitive restructuring, interceptive exposure.

Question 10

Pivitol Response Training

PRT

Answer 10

BEHAVIORAL intervention for autism

Communication skills, decreased disruption, increased generalization of treatment gains.

Question 11

Polyvagus Theory

Vegas Nerve Therapy

Answer 11

Device implanted in the chest and sends electrical impulses to activate the brain leading to improved mood.

Question 12

Prolonged Exposure Therapy

Answer 12

Anxiety, depression and PTSD

• Goal is to decrease distress regarding trauma.
• Relaxation through exposure.

Question 13

Rapid Resolution Therapy

Answer 13

Describe traumatic experiences while remaining emotionally connected to what is happening.

Develop the ability to tell events without re-experiencing them.

Collaborative

Question 14

Referral and Monitoring Progress

Answer 14

Observing changes in thoughts, feelings and behaviors

Should be measurable.

Question 15

Schema Therapy

Answer 15

Organized patterns of behavior, cognition and feelings reflecting childhood states.

• abandonment
• anger/impulsivity
• Primitive parents
• detached

Question 16

Sensation focused intensive treatment

Answer 16

Combine treatments for panic and avoidance in an intensive self study format over 8 days.

Exposure to the most feared without teaching techniques for reducing anxiety.

Question 17

Transference focused therapy

Answer 17

Transference is used to unintegrate anger into a whole object relationship.

Question 18

Person Centered Therapy

Answer 18

Empathy, Congruence and unconditional positive regard.

Techniques: Active listening, reflection, clarification, modeling, support and encouragement.

Used for: Mild situational disorders involving self esteem, confidence and goals.

Question 19

Existential Therapy

Answer 19

Helps clients find meaning and purpose, spirituality, clarification of choices.

Techniques: Paradoxical intention (i.e., staying away at night - wishing for what you don’t want).

Used for: Depression and anxiety

Question 20

Gestalt Therapy

Answer 20

Focuses on wholeness, resolving unfinished business, grief.

Technique: Empty chair, confrontation, dream exploration, encouragement, giving voice to physical sensations.

Used for: Physical symptoms, difficulty with feelings, anxiety/depression.

Often combined with cognitive and behavioral approaches.

Question 21

Reality Therapy

Answer 21

Behavioral concerns (i.e., eating disorders, conduct, substance, impulse and phobia)

Useful with cognitive therapies.

Techniques: Behavior contracting, rewards/punishments, homework, modeling, assertiveness, token economy, natural consequences, role playing, aversion, flooding.

Question 22

Strategic Family Therapy

Answer 22

Focuses on disrupting symptom maintenance and feedback loop.

Defines clear hierarchies and boundaries within the family.

Question 23

Structural Family Therapy

Answer 23

Focuses on power, hierarchies, boundaries (flexible, inflexible, rigid, enmeshed, etc)

Question 24

Family Systems Theory

Answer 24

Focuses on differentiation, emotional reactivity, modifying family relationships.

Question 25

Psychodynamic Therapy

Answer 25

Based on Freudian principles
-making unconscious conscious, childhood, dreams, defense mechanisms, interpretation, transference, history to present concerns.

Brief: Depression, anxiety and situational
Long: Personality disorders and dissociative identity disorder.

Question 26

Adlerian Therapy

Answer 26

Child/parent problems and family of origin issues.

Techniques: Examination of life script, interpretation, empowerment, encouragement, birth order, consequences, social interest.

Used for: Moderate-high level functioning clients who need insight and awareness.

Question 27

Experiential Therapy

Answer 27

Focuses on direct, clear communication, individual and family growth, uncovers family rules.

Question 28

Behavior Social Exchange

Answer 28

Rewarding positive behavior

Not rewarding negative behavior

Question 29

Psychodynamic family therapy

Answer 29

Focuses on insight and resolution of family of origin conflict and losses, family projection, relationship reconstruction and reunion.

Question 30

Narrative Therapy

Answer 30

Write feelings and thoughts that may have never been expressed otherwise that have caused them pain and or suffering.

Question 31

Motivational Interviewing

Answer 31

Moving toward change.

Question 32

Rational Emotive Therapy

Answer 32

Depression and anxiety