Treatment In Practice Flashcards
What is Beck’s cognitive Therapy?
Beck’s cognitive therapy is an intervention based around the perspective that depression is maintained by a negative schema which leads depressed individuals to hold negative views about themselves, their future and the world
What is the negative triad
The negative triad is having negative views about themselves their future and the world.
This is deemed by Beck as maintaining depression due to a negative schema
What is cognitive behaviour therapy?
CBT is an intervention which focuses on changing both thoughts and behaviour
CBT is an umbrella term for many therapies that aim of changing both cognitions and behaviour
What are CBT intervention characteristics?
- Keep a diary: noting significant events & associated feelings, moods & thoughts
- Therapist helps to identify & challenge irrational, dysfunctional & biased thoughts and assumptions
- Homework (behavioural experiments) testing of thoughts & assumptions are accurate & rational
- Client trained in new way of thinking, behaving & reacting in situations that induce psychopathology behaviours
What is Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy?
An extension of traditional CBT.
Focus: achieving a mental state characterised by present-moment focus and non-judgemental awareness
What is acceptance commitment therapy
A form of CBT that incorporates mindfulness and Skinners approach to understanding behaviour.
Teaches to accept and embrace events such as distressing thoughts in an effort to help the individual distance themselves from their negative and intrusive thoughts .
What are humanistic therapies?
Include 5 examples
These therapies consider the person as a whole as opposed to the individual symptoms of psychopathology.
Includes: Gestalt therapy Existential therapy Primal therapy Transpersonal therapy Client-centred therapy (most popular)
What are two main components of empathy in the context of Clint-centred therapy?
- An ability to understand & experience the clients own feelings and personal meanings.
- A willingness to demonstrate unconditional positive regard for the client
What is the overarching goal of Client-centred therapy?
The goal is to develop the client through empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard to a point where they are successful in experiencing & accepting themselves & are able to resolve their own conflicts and difficulties
What is the emphasis placed on client-based therapy?
Attempts to eliminate symptoms by moving clients from 1 phenomenological state (depression, anxiety etc) to another (one that views self as worthy & respected)
What does family therapy refer to?
This intervention involves family members as a helpful means of dealing with psychopathology that is a result of the relationship dynamics within the family
What is systems theory?
This approach attempt to understand the family as a social system
What drugs are used to treat depression and mood disorders?
Antidepressants
What drugs are used to treat anxiety and stress?
Anxiolytic drugs
What type of drugs are used to treat symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia spectrum disorders?
Antipsychotics
