Therapy Theories Flashcards
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- Change happens through supporting clients to take actions to address the problems in their lives. Short term.
- Focus of help is on client-defined problems and goals, Social Worker is open about purposes and nature of service, eschews hidden agendas.
- The client’s problems, goals, and the nature and duration of service are explicitly stated and agreed upon by both social worker and client.
- Change is affected primarily through problem-solving actions or tasks the client and practitioner undertake OUTSIDE the interview. The social worker helps clients select tasks.
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Task-Centered/Problem-Solving Therapy
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- Change occurs through accessing client’s strengths and resources.
- This is a brief, goal-directed therapy focused on client’s strengths and resources
- Focuses on what the client wants to achieve instead of focusing on the problem.
- Focuses on the client’s strengths and resources in order to create a more effective future.
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Solution-Focused Therapy
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- Trauma treatment for children and adolescents.
- Involves the child’s parents/caregivers, with individual sessions for both the child and the parents, as well as joint parent-child sessions.
- It helps reduce emotional and behavioral trauma symptoms and us a relatively short term treatment.
- Includes three stages: stabilization, trauma narrative, and integration and consolidation.
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TFCBT
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- Looks at the complex impact trauma has on a client, including how it affects their efforts to cope and function in all areas of life. Integrates the impact of trauma into every aspect of treatment.
- Looks at the psychological, neurological, biological, and interpersonal effects of trauma.
- includes the view of the client having been hurt by someone or something.
- Treatment should not begin while trauma is still occurring; safety must be established first.
- Treatment focuses on clients gaining back control and empowerment in their lives.
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Trauma Informed Therapy
