Therapy Theories

Question 1

Cognitive Therapy

Answer 1

• change occurs through learning to modify dysfunctional thought patterns.
• clts explore patterns of thinking and beliefs that lead to self destructive bx
• understand relationship btwn thoughts and feelings –> can modify existing patterns of thinking to cope
• focus on automatic thoughts, assumptions, beliefs
• good for anxiety and depression

Question 2

Prolonged Exposure Therapy

Answer 2

-for PTSD
1. trauma related memories and subsequent feelings
2. situations/places that cause anxiety as. rsult of trauma
imaginal: relations to the trauma of memory
invivo (in person): exposure

Question 3

Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT)

Answer 3

tx for children and adolescents

• 3 strategies to TF CBT
  1. stabilization: provide psychoeducation,, relaxation techniques, parenting skills
  2. trauma narrative: exposure by having child repeat story over and over to make sense of experience, emotional and physiological.
  3. integration and consolidation: enhancing personal safety and future growth.

Question 4

Eye Movement Desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)

Answer 4

• alleviates sx of trauma thru EMDR
• 8 step protocol
• for clts who have experienced trauma and still emotionally effected by event
• clts will recall distressing images while engaging in controlled eye movement.

Question 5

Trauma Informed Therapy

Answer 5

• to be aware of how trauma affects clts all around their life
• safety needs to be established first. emotional/ psychological safety are crucial
• focus on clt gaining back control and empowerment in their lives

Question 6

Behavioral therapy

Answer 6

change of behavior occurs through reinforcement and punishment

• reinforcemnt=incresing bx
• punishment= decreasing bx
• positive is adding something
• negative is taking something away
• good for children with bx problems

Question 7

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

Answer 7

• aims to change behavioral, eotional, and cognitive patterns associated with dysfunction by helping clients improve emotinal and cognitive regularion.
• DBT is a good tx for Borderline Personality d/o
• modules= mindfullness, distress tolerence, interpersonal effectiveness and emotional regulation

Question 8

Structural Family Therapy

Answer 8

• change occurs through remodeling the families structure
• therapist helps faily understnad hw the famiy structure can be changed and how ew patterns of intraction can be integrated into the family

Question 9

Strategic Family Therapy

Answer 9

change occurs through action-oriented directives and paradoxial interventions given by the therapist.
-goal is to resolve present problem and change dysfunctional patterns of interaction
interventions:
-positioning:therapist takes exaggerated view of problem and family is obligated to rebel.
-restraining: therapist will discourage change in effort to elicit desire to change from the client
-paradoxical directives: i.e clt afraid of failure therapist will ask clt to do something and fail.

Question 10

Psychodynamic Theory

Answer 10

Change through insight and understanding of early unresolved issues.

• psychopathology develops especially from early childhood experiences
• understanding how the past influence current behaviors
• good for high functioning people capable of insight.

Question 11

Solution focused therapy

Answer 11

goal directed therapy focused on a clients strengths and resources
- miracle question

Question 12

Gestalt therapy

Answer 12

change occurs through increase awareness of the here-and-now experience.
-emphasized what is going on in the present moment within both client and the therapist.
utilizes empty chair technique= clt talks to empty chair and imagines that someone is in that chair, engaging in dialogue. to bring issues outside of therapy to present moment.

Question 13

Logotherapy

Answer 13

belief that it is the striving to find personal meaning to ones life as the primary most powerful driving force
helps by gaining sense of purpose.