Types of therapy Flashcards
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Brief psychodynamic psychotherapy
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- Alexander and French
- time limited treatment based on psychoanalysis and psychodynamic theory
- focused on here and now
- goal setting and identification of anxiety
- focused choosing of problems
- active interpretation
- create heightened emotional contexts conducive to change
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Supportive psychotherapy
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- includes counselling and supportive techniques used when offering psychiatric follow up
- offers practical and emotional support
- reality testing
- ego support
- aim to reestablish usual level of functioning
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General systems theory
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- Ludwig von Bertalanffy
- a system is a set of interconnected components that form a whole
- the components show properties of the whole rather than of individual components
- cycles of feedback between different components within the system continuously create and re-create a basis for interaction
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Models of Family therapy
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- Dynamic
- Structural
- Family Systems Approach
- Strategic
- Psychoeducational
- Behavioural
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Dynamic Family therapy
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- looks at formation of alliances within family members
- therapists seek to establish an intimate bond with each family member
- Family sculpting occurs when family members are physically arranged in a scene depicting an individual view of relationships
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Structural Family therapy
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- looks at behaviours that disrupt the family structure
- families need clear rules and hierachies
- therapist challenges interactions between generations
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Family Systems Approach
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- emphasises one’s ability to retain individual self in the face of familial tension
- an emotional triangle is a 3 party system where closeness of two family members tends to exclude a third
- degree of enmeshment is analysed and the therapist maintains minimal emotional contact with family members
- genograms used
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Strategic family therapy
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- aims to find the positive in a system and build on them
- positive reframing is carried out
- domino effect-if one problem is addressed it leads to a reduction or resolution of other problems
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Psychoeducational family therapy
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- objective is to enhance family support and reduce stress
- used in HEE in schizophrenia
- focuses on families understanding factors that affect stress levels
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Behavioural family therapy
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- aims to closely observe and evaluate behaviours in the family so as to identify problems and make specific interventions
- treatment is symptom focussed and time limited
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Milan systemic approach
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(Palazzoli)
- great emphasis on circular and reflexive questioning
- in a circular fashion each family member is asked to comment and reflect on each other’s response
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Paradoxical therapy
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- George Bateson
- therapist makes the patient unintentionally engage in the unwanted behaviour (called the paradoxical injunction)- like avoid the phobic object
- this gives new insight
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Systematic desensitisation (Wolpe)
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- based on the theory of counterconditioning and reciprocal inhibition
- needs relaxation training, hierachy of anxieties, desentisation of the stimulus
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Progressive relaxation
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- Jacobson
- patients relax muscle groups in fixed order starting from small muscle groups working upwards
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Autogenic training
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-method of self-suggestion where the subject directs their attention to specific body areas whilst carrying out a relaxation exercise
