Therapies Flashcards
Mahler’s Objective Relations Theory
Impact of early relationships with other people (objects) on personality development
Cognitive Therapy
Reminiscence Therapy
Life Review is an activity that helps elderly people come to terms with their lives and morality.
Reality Therapy Approach
Reality therapy focuses on current issues affecting the client. The focus of therapy is on doing what is under the individual’s control. Action is at the core of this therapeutic intervention.
Useful for disorders that involve behavioral concerns: eating disorders, conduct disorders, substance use disorders, impulse control disorders, phobias, sexual disorders. Also used in conjunction with cognitive therapy alleviate depression and anxiety in early stages of treating personality disorders.
Techniques: behavioral contracting, rewards and punishments, homework assignments, modeling, assertiveness training, token economies, natural consequences, anchoring, role playing, skills training, satiation, flooding, aversion therapy, time outs, reinforcement schedules.
Solution Focused Therapy
Client = expert
Therapist = collaborator
Solution focused
Family Systems Therapy
Bowen. Genogram. Solving problems in the context of their family. Family works together. What happens to one, happens to all. Nuclear family and beyond.
Focuses on differentiation, emotional reactivity, modifying family relationships (e.g., detriangulation)
Feminist Therapy
Empowerment and social change
Survivor Therapy
Spousal/Partner abuse. Establish safety, re-empower client, validate client, healing.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy is a form of therapy that aims to separate the individual from the problem, allowing the individual to externalize their issues rather than internalize them. It relies on the individual’s own skills and sense of purpose to guide them through difficult times.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Borderline Personality Disorder. Behavioral, cognitive and supportive therapy techniques. Group therapy.
Rational Emotive Therapy
Chain of events, ABC…
A = External event
B = Belief the individual has about A.
C = Emotion or behavior
Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt therapy is experiential and existential, focusing on the client’s experience in the here-and-now, and bringing the past into the here-and-now. As clients increase present-centered awareness, unfinished business emerges, which is then dealt with to assist the client in living more fully in the present.
Developed by Fritz Perls. Focuses on “wholeness,” resolving “unfinished business,” grief, etc.
Technique: empty chair, confrontation, dream exploration, encouragement of awareness and responsibility; top dog / under dog; giving voice to physical sensations, nonverbal cues.
Used for: healthy people with physical symptoms, difficulty accessing feelings, mild to moderate anxiety and / or depression. Often combined with cognitive and behavioral approaches. .
Psychodynamic Approach
Based on Freudian principles: making the unconscious conscious, childhood experiences, dreams, defense mechanisms, interpretation, analysis of transference, exploration of dysfunctional patterns, client’s history to present concerns, interpersonal psychotherapy (analysis of focal relationship concerns).
Used for: brief approach can be effective for depression, anxiety, situational disorders reflecting repeated patterns; long-term approach can be useful with personality disorders and dissociative identity disorder (formerly multiple personality disorder.
Biopsychosocial Model of Therapy
Biophysical, psychological and social all play an important role. Include broad range of influences when evaluating clients development and behavior.
This model suggests that biological and environmental factors have a strong influence on illness and should be taken into account when considering and treating a couple or family in therapy.
Humanistic Approach
Person to person. Each individual person is unique. No framework. Opposite of psychodynamic.
