Treatment Planning Flashcards
Theory: Psychodynamic:
Assumptions
- Humans have a powerful unconscious mind
- Behavior is mostly driven unconsciously
- Awareness will bring change
Theory: Psychodynamic:
Defining the Problem
- Unresolved childhood conflict
- Typically unconscious
Theory: Psychodynamic:
Goals of Therapy
- Resolve childhood conflict
- Bring unconscious material into conscious awareness (make the unconscious conscious)
Theory: Psychodynamic:
Interventions
- Explore - open ended questions
- Also free association techniques
- Offering insight - therapist observations - used sparingly
- Interpretation - applying meaning to behavior, dreams, decisions, or anything else
Theory: Psychodynamic:
Role of Therapist
- Expert
- Blank slate - so that a client can project unconscious material onto you
Theory: Psychodynamic:
Key Concepts
- Id, Ego, Superego
- Superego keeps the Id in check
- Ego is the mediator
- Defense mechanisms
- Transference
- Countertransference
Theory: Psychodynamic:
Defense Mechanisms
- Repression - removing troubling thoughts or memories from conscious awareness
- Denial - blocking immediate events from entering conscious awareness
- Projection - attributing your own traits, thoughts, or feelings to someone else
- Regression - in times of stress, falling back to earlier behavior patterns
- Displacement - acting out against a safer target
- Rationalization - distorting facts to make them less threatening (ex. I had no choice)
- Reaction formation - behaving in direct opposition to one’s true (and threatening) beliefs
- Sublimation - generally considered the healthiest defense mechanism, this involves satisfying an urge or drive in a socially acceptable way
Specific models: Psychoanalytic:
Attachment Theory
-A model for understanding childhood behavior
Attachment Theory:
Key concepts
- Early childhood bonding events set attachment style
- Caregiver responses set child’s interval working models of thought, emotion, social behavior
- A good amount of childhood behavior is designed to maintain proximity to attachment figure
Attachment Theory:
Tx Models and Techniques
- Several models of therapy for children rely on attachment theory concepts (child parent therapy, circle of security)
- Focus on facilitating appropriate parental responses
- Examination of parent and child history
- Parent training
- Joint play, facilitated by therapist
Object Relations:
Key Concepts
- “Objects” are internal representations
- “Object relations” are mental representations of:
- Object as perceived by self
- Self in relation to object
- Relationship between self and object
- As infants, we split objects into good and bad
- As we grow and mature, integrate to cohesive whole
Object Relations:
Techniques
- Insight-oriented therapy - awareness of split or repressed objects and efforts to integrate
- Psychoanalytic techniques
Specific models: Psychoanalytic:
Self Psychology
All 3 are:
Attachment Theory
Object Relations
Self Psychology
Self Psychology:
Key Concepts
- Self
- Selfobject
- Selfobject-function
- Optimal frustation
Self Psychology:
Techniques
- Empathy (“vicarious introspection”)
- Typical psychoanalytic techniques; differences are in underlying philosophy
Theory: CBT
Key Concepts
- Classical conditioning
- Operant conditioning
Theory: CBT
Assumptions
- The cognitive triangle:
- Faulty thinking leads people to feel a certain way, impacting their behavior
- Thoughts can be changed, behavior can be unlearned
- Dysfunctional patterns are caused by prior experience
Theory: CBT
Role of the Therapist
-Expert
Theory: CBT
Key Concepts
-Schema - Global constructions of one’s character
Theory: CBT
Interventions
- Cognitive Restructuring
- Charting (thought record, log, or journal)
- Disputing irrational beliefs
- Thought-stopping/though replacement
- Psychoeducation
- Logical Fallacies
- Overgeneralization
- Catastrophizing
- Black and white thinking
- Fortune telling
- Pst hoc propter hoc (bc one thing happened, after another, it happened bc of that thing)
- There are many more
- Behavior modification
- Shaping
- Desensitization/exposure
- Mindfulness
- Token economy
Specific models: CBT Based
-DBT-Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Aims to create stability by helping people hold together dialectics, or conflicting ideas that coexist
- Therapeutic relationship is a key driver of change
DBT-Dialectical Behavioral Therapy:
Goals
- Functionality
- Acceptance
- Motivation
- Skills
DBT-Dialectical Behavioral Therapy:
Methods
- Individual therapy
- Group skills training
- Phone sessions for crisis
- Consultation for care providers
DBT-Dialectical Behavioral Therapy:
Skills being taught and practiced
- Mindfulness
- Interpersonal effectiveness
- Distress tolerance
- Emotional regulation
Specific models: CBT Based
-Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
- Philosophically holds that events aren’t good or bad
- How we think about events causes emotional difficulty
Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
- Core philosophies that lead to disturbance:
- Self- I must always perform well
- Others - Other people must always treat me well
- Conditions under which I live must always be easy
- A-B-C-D-E-F Model of disturbance and change
- Therapy helps clients identify, dispute irrational beliefs
- Examples include demands, awfulizing, low frustration tolerance, depreciation
- Avoid shoulds, musts, oughts when absolute or rigid
Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) :
Interventions
- Identify target problems, values, and goals
- Examine problems for irrational beliefs
- Work actively and forcefully against irrational beliefs
- Ultimately achieve self-acceptance, other-acceptance, life-acceptance
Theory: Humanistic:
Assumptions
- People are inherently good
- People inherently want themselves and the world to be better
- People determine the course of their own lives
- Therapist as collaborator, not expert
Theory: Humanistic:
Interventions
-Primary Intervention: Therapist style/way of being
Theory: Humanistic:
Key Concepts
- Warmth
- Empathy
- Genuineness
- Acceptance
- Unconditional positive regard
Theory: Humanistic:
Interventions:
Gestalt
- Empty chair
- Active confrontation
Theory: Humanistic:
Interventions:
Existential
-Here and now