W10: Interventions Flashcards

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Preparatory activities e.g.

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  • Motivational interviewing
  • Stress management and relaxation (mindfulness)
  • Sensory modulation approaches
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Purposeful activities e.g.

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  • Vocational rehab
  • Supporting completion of edu
  • Cooking
  • Budgeting
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6 Stages of psychiatric rehab

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  1. Choosing phase
  2. Engagement
  3. Readiness
  4. Setting an overall goal
  5. Getting phase
  6. Keeping phase
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What is Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CRT)?

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  • Use of computer games to increase brain & cognitive function (concentration, memory)
  • Use of bridging groups to help apply the skills learnt in the computer games to real life scenarios
    >discussion about software used
    >case scenarios
    >card games
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Who is CRT really beneficial for?

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Schizophrenia

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What is Re-Motivation?

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  • Designed to enhance motivation by focussing on your feelings
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What are the 3 levels of the remotivation process?

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  1. Exploration - aims to increase sense of capacity, personal significance and security
  2. Competence - aims to increase sense of efficacy and control over decisions and performance
  3. Achievement - aims to increase motivation for participation
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Exploration module stages

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  1. Validation
  2. Environmental exploration
  3. Choice-making
  4. Pleasure and efficacy in action
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Competence module stages

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  1. Internalised sense of self-efficacy

2. Living and telling one’s story

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What is cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)?

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The link between thoughts, feelings & actions –> works on correcting misconceptions or irrational thoughts about things

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What is the ABC method?

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A. Antecedent
B. Beliefs about the event
C. Consequence

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CBT techniques

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  • Borrowing another perspective
  • De-catastrophising
  • Distancing
  • Vertical descent
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Issues with CBT

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  • Thoughts can be automatic
  • People may feel judged (my thoughts are wrong)
  • Not strengths based
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What is Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)?

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  • Accepting things that are out of our control and trying to move on and improve life
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6 core concepts of ACT

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  1. Connection
  2. Acceptance
  3. Defusion
  4. Observing self
  5. Values
  6. Committed action
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What is DBT?

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Shit happens –> don’t like it –> skills –> feel better

  • people who self harm*
  • when shit happens, they may turn to skills such as self harm , alcohol, sex, etc to make them feel better (which is does for a while)
  • HOWEVER, they then begin to have feelings of shame and guilt, which makes them feel like shit again
  • DBT is used to help them learn skills that are more positive to help them overcome things when shit happens
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What is DBT used for?

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Borderline personality disorder

18
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What is Solution Focussed Therapy (SFT)?

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  • Solution building rather than problem-focussed - work with the person not the problem
  • Focus on the future
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4 elements of SFT

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  1. Miracle questioning
    - “If you were to wake up tomorrow and the problem was gone, what would it look like?”
  2. Scaling questions
    - “Rate your anxiety”, “what would make life more tolerable?”
  3. Exception questions
    - “When wasn’t it so bad?”
  4. Resource identification
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What is Narrative Therapy?

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  • Re-authoring the situation
  • Distancing the person from the situation
  • People are separate from the problem - drawing their depression and naming it
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What are group interventions beneficial?

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  • Cost effective
  • Opportunity to use social skills
  • Empower those with similar experiences
  • Leadership opportunities
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How to make a group intervention

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  1. Needs analysis
  2. Develop program
  3. Run program
  4. Evaluate program
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Group intervention issues

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  • Not allowing others to speak
  • Critical of others during the group
  • Coming to the group under the influence
  • Withdrawal
  • Conflict between members
  • Expressed emotion
  • Domination by one member
  • Intermittent participation