Therapeutic Treatment Flashcards
How could you help a 3 yo child cope with their babysitter moving away? (2x)
Help the child call the babysitter
Process to help family adapt to the death of a child?
Maintain a legacy through memories and physical reminders of child
Child has been in therapy for 6 months and actively engaged, parents divorced, mother more interested in therapy than father. Father called and left a voicemail that patient wants to terminate therapy. Next step?
Call father and explore his relationship with child and reason child wants to end therapy
10 yo therapy patient transfers from graduating fellow to new fellow. Family/patient always late, late to first appointment with new fellow, eating food in waiting room. Next step?
Notice annoyance and plan to address lateness once rapport is established
When a therapist engages in small talk and involves a serious conversation, what is the process called?
joining
Example of saying,”My child is seeking my help” instead of “My child is very needy”
Reframing
Child with end stage illness asks, “Am I going to die?” Response?
“What are you most worried about?”
Most important component of CBT for needle phobia? (3x)
Graduated exposure to needles (systematic desensitization)
Type of therapy that uses writing out a narrative of negative experience? (2x)
Trauma-focused CBT
Example of behavioral activation in CBT? (2x)
Scheduling pleasurable activities to build motivation
How do children learn therapy concepts in cognitive-behavioral play therapy?
Modeling
Depressed teen in CBT says that director hates her due to not getting the leading role, yet had the lead in two other plays this year. Cognitive error?
Selective Abstraction
On first day of school, 5yo does not want parents to leave and throws temper tantrum. Parents walk child to class and leave. Parents displayed what type of behavioral therapy?
Flooding
Aaron Beck’s Theory: psychopathology of depression?
Negative cognitive bias toward the self
College student with bad grade on quiz fears flunking school and becoming homeless. Type of cognitive error?
Catastrophizing
Patient learns relaxation techniques for phobia of heights, demonstrates technique at home and in office. Therapist plans trip to high building and helps patient still use technique. Behavioral principle?
Reciprocal inhibition
16 yo in CBT for MDD states, “I’ll never get married” after being turned down for a date. What cognitive distortion?
Catastrophizing
Therapy patient states “I’m a failure.” In CBT, this is?
Core belief
How would you modify CBT for a 6 yo patient?
Eliminate cognitive restructuring
By providing education with cognitive behavioral intervention, a patient and their family understands reasons for treatment. This has what effect on the treatment?
Increasing motivation and follow-through for the child and family?
Adolescent in CBT fills out thought record. Writes down thoughts about being a loser for getting a bad grade, but fails to list his good grades. Cognitive Error?
Disqualifying the positive
16 year old patient in cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety is told to picture a situation she says something embarrassing but remains calm. This is technique is?
Modification of imagery
A child who reports that everyone hates him after being picked on by a bully, demonstrates which cognitive error?
Overgeneralization
Initial stage of systematic desensitization therapy?
Relaxing training
Child with trichotillomania treated with habit reversal therapy. Therapy includes awareness, competing responses, and?
Social Support
Adolescent in treatment for arm tic learns to press elbow into body with premonitory urge. Treatment type?
Habit reversal training
Psychiatrist asks child receiving psychodynamic play therapy about mother who abandoned the family last year. Child throws toy at psychiatrist. Best response? (2x)
Explain that it’s not OK to throw things, but ask about other times when they feel like throwing or hitting things
Which treatment would be appropriate for a patient after a stressor has resolved but the child’s defenses are now fixed and maladaptive? (2x)
Individual psychodynamic psychotherapy
Youth in therapy lasting 10 weeks for test taking anxiety, interpersonal issues with father, and body image issues. What type of therapy used? (2x)
Short-term psychodynamic
What could be a treatment goal in child-parent psychodynamic theory?
Develop parental insight into their use