Treatment techniques

Question 1

Assertiveness training

Answer 1

Learning to stand up for yourself, good to practice in groups

Question 2

Aversive control

Answer 2

CBT intervention used for dysfunctional families

Question 3

Aversive counterconditioning

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Pairing a behavior with an unpleasant stimulus

Question 4

Chaining

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Linking behaviors in a series, each behavior is the reinforcement for the previous behavior and the stimuli for the next behavior

Question 5

Confrontation

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Gestalt therapy, imposing stance is when therapist takes power, competing stance is when therapist uses negotiation, compromise and confidence. Confirming stance is when therapist acknowledges whole being of client.

Question 6

Contingency contracting

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Behavioral, agreements between family members using rewards

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Disputing

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CBT, therapist challenges irrational thoughts

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Enactment

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Family therapy, recreate issues that happen at home

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Evoking

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Client is asked to expand on knowledge in order to cultivate change

Question 10

Exaggeration/repetition Game

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Gestalt, client exaggerates movements to get in touch with emotions.

Question 11

Exception-finding questions

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Therapist asks questions to recognize when the problem didn’t exist

Question 12

Family art therapy

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Satir, family drawings, joint scribble

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Family mapping

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Structural therapy, therapist uses diagram to identify boundaries

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Family puppet interviews

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Satir, make up story using puppets

Question 15

Family sculpting

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Satir conjoint family therapy

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Family ritual

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Milan model, introducing a new activity for families to interrupt a families rigid sequence and change the way they interact

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Flooding

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Behavioral, for phobias, prolonged imaginal exposure to fear stimulus

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Gender-role analysis

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Feminist

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Here and now

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Gestalt

Question 20

Internal dialogue exercise

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Distinguishes between top dog/under dog conflict. Gestalt

Question 21

Invariant prescription technique

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Milan, parents tell children they have a secret and then leave together multiple times being secretive about it

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In vivo desensitization

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CBT, for anxiety and phobias, face fear head on and do what client is afraid of

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Joining

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Strategic therapy, therapist supports family in leadership position

Question 24

Labeling

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Labeling a behaviors in situation in a generalized way

Question 25

Linking

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Helping group members find commonality

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Love withdrawal

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Used as a discipline, caregivers restrict love towards children

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Making the rounds

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When a person is asked to practice a skill in group such as taking risks, confrontation, or self-disclosure

Question 28

Noncontingent reinforcement

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Behavioral, the delivery of a reinforcing stimulus on a response-independent basis

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Operant conditioning

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B.F. Skinner

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Paradoxical Injunction

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Milan, therapist instructs family members to continue their symptomatic behavior

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Personality reconstruction

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Basic structure of the client is restructured to create an integrated individual

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Positive connotation

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Milan, attributes positive motives to family behavior to support cohesion and avoid resistance to therapy

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Positive feedback

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Family systems

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Premack principle

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Behavioral, pairing a reward with something needing to be achieved

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Primary vicarious conditioning

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Observer sees models behavior reinforced so decides to do the same thing.

Question 36

Process question

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Bowenian therapy, used to recognize/take responsibility for behavior in relationships