Treatment, Intervention, and Prevention Flashcards
A multi-systems approach to working with Black and other minority families that includes meetings outside of the therapy room and involving extended family, school, church, etc.
Nancy Boyd-Franklin
A type of evaluation that assesses the development or progress of a project, program, or product to improve its effectiveness
Formative evaluation
Program evaluation that occurs only at the end of the program
Summative evaluation
An approach that focuses on bipolar dimensions of meaning that determine how a person perceives, interprets, and predicts events.
Describes people as scientists, who are constantly forming, testing, and revising hypotheses about the world around them.
We perceive the world according to what we expect to see.
George Kelly’s Personal Construct Therapy
In group therapy, Yalom describes this as the analogue of the therapist-client relationship in individual therapy.
Cohesiveness
This model of depression proposes that depression can stem from deficits in self-monitoring, self-evaluation, and self-reinforcement.
Rehm’s self-control model of depression
A type of therapy based on the idea that exposure to moderately stressful events can build an individual’s coping resources and promote resilience to future stress.
Phases:
1. Conceptualization - understanding the problem and developing a plan
- Skill Acquisition and Rehearsal - developing coping skills for anxiety reduction
- Application and Follow-Through - Applying and practicing skills in real-life situations
Meichenbaum’s Stress Inoculation Training
A couples-based intervention to treat different types of sexual dysfunction. Focuses on exploring and enjoying physical sensations and practicing open communication.
Sensate focus
An approach that emphasizes the unique, holistic nature of each individual, focusing on their striving for superiority and social interest.
Adler’s individual psychology
Adlerian therapy
Pioneering form of CBT that focuses on identifying and changing irrational thoughts and beliefs that lead to emotional and behavioral problems.
A: Activating event
B: Beliefs
C: Consequences
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
Albert Ellis
A set of procedures that combines modeling and graduated practice with elements of rational emotive theory, to help with problems with task completion.
- Therapist modeling
- Therapist verbalization
- Patient verbalization
- Patient silently talks through the task
- Independent task performance
Self-instruction therapy
A model based on the view that addiction is an overlearned habit. Instead of viewing recovery as all or nothing, the client is assisted to view setbacks as lapses to be learned from.
Marlatt: Relapse Prevention
A defense mechanism that involves redirecting an emotional reaction from the original source to a less threatening or more available target.
E.g., Someone who is angry at their boss takes out their anger on family members.
Displacement
A defense mechanism that involves engaging in behaviors that are the exact opposite of the id’s real urges.
E.g., A mother with aggressive feelings toward her child becomes a doting and overprotective mother.
Reaction formation
A defense mechanism that involves finding socially acceptable ways of discharging energy from unconscious forbidden desires.
E.g., Redirecting aggressive urges into competitive sports.
Sublimation
The “father” of ego psychology. Believed that people are driven by both their passions and their thinking (id and ego).
Heinz Hartmann
A branch of psychoanalytic theory that emphasizes the development of a cohesive sense of self through the experience of mirroring, idealizing, and twinship needs being met by significant others.
Heinz Kohut’s Self Psychology
A short-term, evidence-based therapy that focuses on improving relationships to alleviate mental health symptoms.
Excessive anxiety is the result of interpersonal insecurity and is the basis for most psychiatric problems.
Based on work by Harry Stack Sullivan.
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
A Neo-Freudian theory suggesting that individuals develop specific “trends” to cope with basic anxiety.
- Moving toward people (seeking approval)
- Moving against people (controlling others)
- Moving away from people (withdrawing)
Karen Horney
Theory of neurotic trends
A Neo-Freudian theory emphasizing fundamental human needs like freedom and belonging, arguing that people develop strategies to cope with anxiety arising from feelings of isolation.
“To Have” vs “To Be”
Erich Fromm
A therapeutic approach based on the idea of a collective unconscious. The therapist guides the client into a productive relationship with the elements of the unconscious.
Widely used with children (e.g., sand trays)
Jungian psychology
Analytic psychology
Jungian therapy
The focus of this therapy is to correct faulty learning by providing clients with an opportunity to expand their awareness of and liking for themselves.
Key characteristics: empathy, warmth, genuineness
Rogers’ Person-Centered Therapy
In Gestalt therapy, __________ is a process whereby people take information in whole, which results in problems with being overly compliant and gullible.
Introjection
In Gestalt therapy, __________ is a process whereby people project their feelings onto others, which results in paranoia.
Projection
