Flashcards in Psychotherapy Deck (53)
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What must be done before psychotherapy can begin?
Pt must be motivated
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What is the effect of increased comorbidities, chronicity, and severity, on mental illness prognosis with psychotherapy?
Worse
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Which is more important: patient expectations of success, or the credibility of treatment
Patient expectations
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What is the role of psychotherapy compared to pharmacotherapy in the treatment of mental illness?
Changes brain wiring
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What are the strengths of psychodynamic therapy? (3)
-Emphasizes self-understanding
-Seeks characterological and structural change
-Effect with PDs, MDD, and anxiety
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What is the theory of psychodynamic therapy? (2)
-Early life experiences influences psychosocial development and current functioning
-Focus on unconscious motivating factors
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What are the weaknesses of psychodynamic psychotherapy? (2)
-Can be very long term
-Difficult to research in its traditional form
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Why do psychotherapists not express emotions?
See how patient forms ideas about you is telling about their framework
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What is the focus of behavioral therapy?
-Focuses on overt behaviors and environmental influences that support them
-Focuses attention on issues related to conditioning and reinforcement
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What are the strengths of behavior therapy? (2) What does it work well for?
-Symptom focused
-Researchable
-Works well with anxiety, phobias, and behavior disorders
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What are the weaknesses of behavior therapy? (2) What is its role in treating depression?
-No opportunity for client to discuss feelings
-Less effective without a cognitive component being present
-Not as effective as other forms therapy for depression
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Anxiety and phobias are very treatable with what sort of therapy?
Behavior therapy
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What is the basic principle behind cognitive therapy?
-We base our world on schema. Psychopathology results from faulty thinking.
-If we change what people are saying inside their heads, it will change how they feel
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What is the all-or-nothing cognitive distortion?
I'm either great or worthless
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What is the overgeneralization cognitive distortion?
Single event is seen as a never ending pattern
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What is the mental filter cognitive distortion?
Picking out a single negative detail and focusing on it
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What is the jumping to conclusions cognitive distortion?
Drawing a negative conclusion without supporting facts
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What is the catastrophizing or minimizing cognitive distortion?
Exaggerating or minimizing the importance of something that happens
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What is the Emotional reasoning cognitive distortion?
If I feel it, it must be so
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What is the should statement cognitive distortion?
Punishing self leads to guilt
Directing to others leads to resentment
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What is the labeling and misleading cognitive distortion?
I'm a loser or he's a louse
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What is the personalization cognitive distortion?
Seeing self as the cause of an event for which you have no responsibility
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What are the strengths of cognitive therapy? (3)
-Short duration
-Excellent research support
-Can be used for most all psych disorders
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What are the weaknesses of cognitive therapy? (2)
-Less powerful framework for dealing with problems that arise in therapy
-Requires patient commitment to complete homework
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What are the ideas behind acceptance and commitment therapy?
-human suffering is inevitable
-Coming up with explanations for our feelings is counterproductive
-Avoiding internal experiences is counterproductive
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What are the goals of acceptance and commitment therapy? (4)
-Accepting thoughts, even when uncomfortable
-Identify values
-Not applying judgement on thoughts
-Being in the moment (future = anxiety, past = depression)
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What are the strengths of ACT? (3)
-Can be used with wide range of problems
-Short duration
-Good research support
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What are the weakness of ACT? (2)
-Requires an excellent therapist
-Underlying theory can be complex and difficult to explain
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What are the basic principles of interpersonal therapy (IPT)? 23)
-*Focus on current interpersonal problems and relationships*, since these are the major causes of issues
-Focus on present social context
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