Theories Middle Stage

Question 1

CBT middle stage

Answer 1

Identify negative thought patterns
Uncover negative schemas
Assign homework to monitor thoughts, etc
Label cognitive distortions/reframe

Question 2

REBT

Answer 2

Identify underlying feelings
Challenge and dispute mistaken beliefs
Be blunt, direct and confrontational

Question 3

DBT

Answer 3

Fuller emotional experience
Support client to learn to live
Define life goals, build self respect
Find peace and happiness

Question 4

CCH

Answer 4

Non directive, no stages

Question 5

Gestalt

Answer 5

Self directed, awareness of here and now, accept and value selves (no stages)

Question 6

Existential

Answer 6

Client discovers his own life meaning, confronts anxiety, takes responsibility for his own life (no stages)

Question 7

Experiential

Answer 7

Develop sense of COHESION
Create alternate interactions
Highlight inappropriate boundaries, coalitions, roles and conflicts

Question 8

Narrative

Answer 8

EXTERNALIZE problem
Mapping influence
Identify/explore unique outcomes
Re-author story
Enlist a witness

Question 9

Solution Focused

Answer 9

Identify strengths/resources
Utilize solution talk
Scaling and exception questions
Compliment/cheerlead/highlight small changes

Question 10

Psychodynamic

Answer 10

Promote insight and growth
Increase individuation
Work through termination/abandonment issues

Question 11

Object Relations Psychodynamic

Answer 11

Promote insight and growth/interpretation
Confront resistance/primitive defense mechanisms
Focus on transference/countertransference
Process projective identification

Question 12

Self Psychology

Answer 12

Repair disruptions of self-object transference
Mourning loss of self objects
Identify alternative self objects
Mourning ambitions and fantasies
Emphasize with losses/blows to self

Question 13

Attachment-based

Answer 13

Explore disruptions in early life and current relationships
Support clients ability to regulate and express emotions in difficult situations
Teach clients to have a reflective stance towards self

Question 14

Bowen

Answer 14

Teach/model differentiation through communication skill building
De triangulation
Encourage reunion w/cutoff family members
Teach family how to take responsibility for their feelings/thoughts

Question 15

General Systems Theory

Answer 15

Explore family belief systems, values, roles, hierarchy, expectations, circular causality
Reframe as systems issues
Explore dysfunctional familial roles
Challenge communication

Question 16

Strategic

Answer 16

Review attempted solutions
Assign ordeals
Prescribing problem
Instruct client to respond to problem in a new way

Question 17

Structural

Answer 17

Highlight/modify interactions
Utilize ENACTMENTS
Challenge and unbalance systems

Question 18

Satir/Communications

Answer 18

Increase congruent communication
Support and strengthen individual’s sense of uniqueness and self esteem

Question 19

How many Cognitive therapies?

Answer 19

(3) CBT, REBT, DBT

Question 20

How many Humanistic/Existential therapies?

Answer 20

(4) CCH, Gestalt, Existential, Experiential

Question 21

How many Post Modern therapies?

Answer 21

(2) Narrative, Solution Focused

Question 22

Psychodynamic Therapies

Answer 22

(4) Psychodynamic, Object Relation Therapy, Self-Psychology, Attachment Based