Therapy Theories Flashcards
Change through learning to modify dysfunctional thought patterns
Client explores patterns of thinking and beliefs that lead to self-destructive behaviors.
focus on automatic thoughts, schemes, assumptions, beliefs.
Good therapy for anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder.
CBT
How a caregiver responds to an infant/toddler’s cues shapes that child’s view of the world.
Used to assess the bond between mother and child. Observing how the child responds when caregiver leaves and returns to room.
Attachment theory
Brief, goal directed therapy focused on clients strengths and resources.
Focuses on what the client wants to achieve instead of focusing on the problem.
Miracle question.
Solution focused
Change through increased awareness of here-and-now experiences.
Emphasizes what is going on in the present moment within both the client and the therapist rather than what has happened.
Empty chair technique of bringing issue into present moment.
Gestalt therapy
A systems approach that addresses relationship dynamics of who,e family.
The therapist helps the family understand how family structure can be changed, the impact of rituals and rules.
Enmeshed families known for incest
Disengaged families known for substance abuse.
Good for families that are having problems with in laws.
Structural family therapy
Change of behavior through reinforcements and punishments.
Identify the problem, monitor behavior, reinforce desired behavior.
1. Monitor the problem
2. Monitor that behavior
3. Reinforce the desired behavior
Behavior therapy is used mainly in children.
Behavior therapy
Change through understanding multigenerational dynamics.
Individuals cannot be understood in isolation from one another but rather as part of their family.
Family members are driven to achieve a balance of internal and external differentiation, which causes anxiety, triangulation, and emotional cutoff.
Bowen family
Change through finding meaning in life.
Understanding purpose.
Founded upon the belief that it is the striving to find a meaning in ones life that is primary, most p
Logo therapy
Change through recognizing disempowering social forces and empowering client. The therapist helps the client recognize these disempowering forces or influences, a process which can ultimately empower the client.
The therapist recognizes that with every symptom there is strength and also shows the client that she is her own rescuer and equal to the therapist.
Good for eating disorder.
Feminist therapy
Change happens through supporting clients to tak
Task center/problem solving therapy
Change happening through insight. The client wants to know why they act the way they act/why they do something.
Good for marriage, relationship problems
Psychodynamic/insight therapy
When a behavior is followed by a reward.
E.g giving a child a sticker for a positive behavior.
Positive reinforcement
The behavior in followed by the remove of a adverse stimulus.
Wife nags her husband then it stops when he does what she wants him too.
Negative reinforcement
Doing something negative after a behavior you want to stop. E.g. Is spanking in hopes that the child wouldn’t do it again.
Positive punishment
When you remove something that the child wants as a form of punishment.
Negative punishment
