W4-T1 Psychosocial Approaches to Care in the Community

Question 1

What is the behaviourists argument

Answer 1

psychology should be the science of behaviour, not mind

Question 2

what is associated with behavioural model

Answer 2

source of behaviour is external
human learns through conditioning
abnormal behaviour develops from faulty learning – it can also be unlearned

Question 3

what is the element of vicious cycle

Answer 3

emotion
physical sensation
behaviour
thought

Question 4

why some think a behavioural model is a reductionist approach

Answer 4

theorists emphasised that behaviour plays a role, but what really matters is the way we interpret an event.

Question 5

what is cognitive model /therapist

Answer 5

emphasise a process by which individuals engage in cognitive distortions, cognitive
biases, and they suggest that this is the cause of mental and psychological distress

Question 6

what classic examples that CBT elicits

Answer 6

the connection of experience, thought, emotion and behaviour – bad thought/perception of an event resulted in negative emotion and behaviour

(what matter is not the event itself, but how our thought process evaluates the event)

Question 7

common cognitive distortion

Answer 7

black and white – extreme thought
catastrophising – a person might actually infer a catastrophe from a mildly negative, or even from a fairly neutral initial situation (i.e panic attack)
mental filter – focus exclusively on negative aspect
mind reading –believe what others think usually about ourselves

Question 8

how cognitive distortion becomes problematic

Answer 8

inflexible
default position

Question 9

what CBT layer of cognition suggested about distortion

Answer 9

The deeper the level - the more we move from the negative
automatic thoughts to the intermediate belief, to the core belief - the more deeply rooted the
cognition and the more entrenched psychological distress.

Question 10

name two elements of CBT wave 3

Answer 10

move away from content-oriented cognitive intervention
emphasize new for of behaviourism

Question 11

example of CBT wave 3

Answer 11

acceptance and commitment treatment,
behavioural activation,
dialectical behavioural therapy,
mindfulness-based cognitive therapy,
schema therapy,

Question 12

dialectical behavioural therapy

Answer 12

cognitive behavioural approach that actually emphasises the social aspects of treatment

Question 13

dialetical behavioural therapy created by

Answer 13

Dr Marsha Linehan

Question 14

why dialetical behavioral therapy created for

Answer 14

to understand pervasive and longstanding interpersonal difficulties comes with borderline personality disorder (bpd)

Question 15

what dialetical means

Answer 15

synthesis, integrate with opposite

Question 16

what is primary synthesis within dbt and example

Answer 16

acceptance and change:
accept clients as they are and acknowledge change is required

Question 17

DBT approach to mental distress

Answer 17

a result of a disorder-specific tendency, which lies dormant until it gets activated by environmental stressors

Question 18

what is emotional vulnerability according to marsha linehan

Answer 18

an individual whose the autonomic nervous system reacts severely, even in fairly low levels of stress, then take longer to recover once distress is removed

Question 19

BPD perspective according to Linehan

Answer 19

emotionally vulnerable individual growing up in an invalidating environment, resulted in BPD patient

(unable to label the emotion, an extreme display of emotion, confusion internally/externally)

Question 20

What Dr Jeffrey Young invented

Answer 20

scheme therapy

Question 21

three therapy that are combined in scheme therapy

Answer 21

behavioural therapy
object related therapy
cognitive therapy
Gestalt therapy

Question 22

what is core emotional needs according to scheme therapy

Answer 22

secure attachment
need for autonomy, competence and identity
free to express invalid needs and emotions
need for play and spontaneous
need for limit and self control

Question 23

name example of maladaptive schemas (total 18, but not all covered in the lecture)

Answer 23

rejection/disconnection (neglectful environment)
impaired autonomy and performance
impaired limit (no discipline in early childhood)
other-directedness (conditional acceptance)
over vigilance/inhibition (over strict/rigid)

Question 24

example how individual coping with their scheme

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overcompensate the scheme
behave in opposite ways to their schemas
surrender to scheme

Question 25

example three-way coping with abandonment scheme in relationship

Answer 25

overcompensate (cling to the relationship to the point of pushing the partner away
surrender (pick partner who wont commit)

Question 26

define mode according to Young

Answer 26

a cluster of schemas that represents, moment to moment, the emotional and behavioural states of a person at any given time

Question 27

What Hayes and Wilson (94) associated with

Answer 27

acceptance and commitment therapy

Question 28

what is core concept of ACT therapy

Answer 28

psychological suffering caused by experiential avoidance, cognitive entanglement, and psychological rigidity

prevents us from taking behavioural steps in accord with core values.

rather than fight against that, human beings ought to accept and change