Third Wave Therapies Flashcards
What are first wave therapies?
- Purely cognitive
- Purely behavioural
- Psychodynamic
- Psychoanalytic therapies
What are second wave therapies?
where we start to see these approaches being combined - cognitive and behavioural
e.g. CBT
What is a third wave therapy?
- Most have their roots in CBT but how they respond to thoughts is quite different
- More about accepting and giving space and allowing these thoughts to be but now having to engage with them, not having to do something in response to them
Give some examples of of 3rd wave therapies.
- mindfulness based cognitive therapy
- acceptance and commitment therapy
- compassion focused therapy
- dialectical behaviour therapy
What commonalities are in 3rd wave approaches?
- extend traditional cognitive approaches
- have an evidence base to show effectiveness
- differ from CBT in the response to negative thoughts
What is the focus for Dialectical Behaviour Therapy?
Behavioural contingencies and mindfulness and emotion regulation.
What is the focus of mindfulness based cognitive therapy?
mindfulness
What is the focus of acceptance and commitment therapy?
acceptance of what is and committing to valued action
What is the focus of compassion focused therapy?
compassion and self-soothing
What are characteristics of dialectical behaviour therapy?
- skills based
- often run as a group
- e.g. maybe your early experiences lead you to an invalidating early environment and perhaps you didn’t have the opportunity to learn some of these skills and that there are skills to be learnt
What do you learn in mindfulness based cognitive therapy?
- learning about being present in the moment and being non-judgemental
- draws on noticing what your brain is telling you
What do we learn in acceptance and commitment therapy?
how we can become more flexible in terms of our psychology and how that might support us in those tasks of acceptance and valued action
What is the role of compassion focused therapy?
- common humanity and how suffering is a common aspect of common humanity, something each of us will discover
- talking about different motivation systems and that very often we find people have an underdeveloped sense of self-soothing and struggle with the idea of relating compassion towards ourselves
Who invented compassion focused therapy?
Dr Paul Gilbert
What is compassion?
A sensitivity to the suffering of self and others - with a deep commitment to try and relieve it
From CFT perspective, what are the 2 different psychologies we aim to develop?
- Courage (the ability to understand, approach and engage with suffering and distress)
- Dedication & Wisdom (the desire and motivation to alleviate suffering, uproot its causes and seek to prevent suffering in the future
Explain emotions about emotions.
- common to have many different emotions at the same time
- e.g. anxious of getting angry, ashamed of losing our temper, ashamed of giving into temptation etc.
- conflicting emotions can be confusing
- learning to be kind and understanding of ourselves, and that our brain can be hard to fathom, can be helpful and to stop the self-attacking that can make things even more difficult to sort out
What type of approach is CFT?
- evolutionary & biopsychosocial approaches to psychological difficulties
- derived from the social mentality theory
What type of patients require CFT?
Individuals often come from harsh, critical backgrounds and find is difficult to feel safe and reassured
Explain the idea of multi-mind.
- different psychologies have been laid down at different times in evolution
- e.g. capacities for sex, fighting, and hunting can be traced back to reptiles over 500 million years ago
- evolution of mammals - psychologies for infant caring, alliance formation, play & status came into the world
- 2 million years ago saw the emergence of complex thinking, reflection, theory of mind, sense of self & self identity
What is the old brain?
various emotions and motivations that we share with other animals
- respond to that threat in a particular and behavioural and physiological pattern
What is the new brain?
gives us the ability to think, reflect, observe and form self identity
- means we can think and predict a lot more threat