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What is the primary focus of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)?
What is the primary focus of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)?
Which therapy is specifically designed to address emotional responses in interpersonal relationships?
Which therapy is specifically designed to address emotional responses in interpersonal relationships?
What distinguishes Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) from traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
What distinguishes Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) from traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
What are schemas in the context of Schema Therapy (ST)?
What are schemas in the context of Schema Therapy (ST)?
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What is a key characteristic of Behavioural Therapy (BT)?
What is a key characteristic of Behavioural Therapy (BT)?
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Which of the following conditions is NOT typically associated with Cognitive & Behavioural approaches?
Which of the following conditions is NOT typically associated with Cognitive & Behavioural approaches?
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What is the main goal of Motivational Interviewing (MI)?
What is the main goal of Motivational Interviewing (MI)?
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Cognitive Therapy (CT) primarily focuses on what aspect of mental health?
Cognitive Therapy (CT) primarily focuses on what aspect of mental health?
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What is a common effect of trying to suppress thoughts about something?
What is a common effect of trying to suppress thoughts about something?
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What is the main goal of motivational interviewing?
What is the main goal of motivational interviewing?
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Which approach is primarily aimed at educating clients about their psychological conditions?
Which approach is primarily aimed at educating clients about their psychological conditions?
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In the context of behaviour modification, which statement is true?
In the context of behaviour modification, which statement is true?
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What type of exposure therapy involves real-life situations that trigger fear?
What type of exposure therapy involves real-life situations that trigger fear?
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What technique involves examining evidence for and against cognitive distortions?
What technique involves examining evidence for and against cognitive distortions?
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Which type of schedule of reinforcement delivers reinforcement for every instance of behavior?
Which type of schedule of reinforcement delivers reinforcement for every instance of behavior?
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Which technique is NOT a focus of motivational interviewing?
Which technique is NOT a focus of motivational interviewing?
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What is the primary goal of Behavioral Activation?
What is the primary goal of Behavioral Activation?
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Which task approach does Behavioral Activation utilize when clients feel overwhelmed?
Which task approach does Behavioral Activation utilize when clients feel overwhelmed?
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In skills training, what is one key area of focus?
In skills training, what is one key area of focus?
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Which component is included in DBT group training skills?
Which component is included in DBT group training skills?
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What is the purpose of relaxation strategies in therapy?
What is the purpose of relaxation strategies in therapy?
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What technique involves alternating between tensing and relaxing muscle groups?
What technique involves alternating between tensing and relaxing muscle groups?
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During breathing restraining, what is the purpose of cupping hands over the mouth?
During breathing restraining, what is the purpose of cupping hands over the mouth?
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Which of the following is NOT a focus area of skills training?
Which of the following is NOT a focus area of skills training?
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What is the primary focus of psychodynamic therapy?
What is the primary focus of psychodynamic therapy?
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Which of the following is NOT a goal of psychodynamic therapy?
Which of the following is NOT a goal of psychodynamic therapy?
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What is a main goal of interpersonal psychotherapy (ITP)?
What is a main goal of interpersonal psychotherapy (ITP)?
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Which situation is an appropriate focus for interpersonal psychotherapy?
Which situation is an appropriate focus for interpersonal psychotherapy?
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How does interpersonal psychotherapy primarily differ from cognitive-behavioral therapy?
How does interpersonal psychotherapy primarily differ from cognitive-behavioral therapy?
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What therapeutic mechanism is NOT typically associated with psychodynamic therapy?
What therapeutic mechanism is NOT typically associated with psychodynamic therapy?
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Which mental health issue is NOT commonly treated with psychodynamic therapy?
Which mental health issue is NOT commonly treated with psychodynamic therapy?
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What role does the therapist play in psychodynamic therapy?
What role does the therapist play in psychodynamic therapy?
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What is the primary focus of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)?
What is the primary focus of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)?
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Which technique is used in SFBT to help clients visualize a future without their current problem?
Which technique is used in SFBT to help clients visualize a future without their current problem?
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In Family Systems therapy, how are individuals viewed in relation to their family?
In Family Systems therapy, how are individuals viewed in relation to their family?
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What foundational belief is central to Humanistic therapy?
What foundational belief is central to Humanistic therapy?
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What does Ecotherapy emphasize about the relationship between individuals and their environment?
What does Ecotherapy emphasize about the relationship between individuals and their environment?
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Which of the following is NOT a technique used in Ecotherapy?
Which of the following is NOT a technique used in Ecotherapy?
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What is a characteristic of Narrative Therapy?
What is a characteristic of Narrative Therapy?
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In which context is Narrative Therapy particularly useful for Indigenous Australians?
In which context is Narrative Therapy particularly useful for Indigenous Australians?
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Coping questions in Solution Focused Brief Therapy are designed to help clients:
Coping questions in Solution Focused Brief Therapy are designed to help clients:
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What underlying concept is central to Family Systems therapy?
What underlying concept is central to Family Systems therapy?
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Study Notes
Cognitive & Behavioural Approaches
- Thoughts, feelings, and actions are interconnected, with thoughts influencing emotions and behaviors.
- Negative or unrealistic thoughts can contribute to distress and problems.
Cognitive Therapy (CT)
- Focuses on the impact of thoughts on emotions.
Behavioural Therapy (BT)
- Identifies and modifies unhealthy or self-destructive behaviors.
- Recognizes that all behaviors are learned and can be changed.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Encourages individuals to take action based on their values to enhance their lives.
- Prioritizes value-guided action over symptom reduction, believing that individuals can have fulfilling lives regardless of symptoms.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
- Combines CBT principles with mindfulness practices, such as meditation and breathing exercises.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emphasizes the psychosocial aspects of treatment, particularly in areas like relationships.
- Focuses on helping individuals manage intense emotional reactions, especially in romantic relationships, family, and friendships.
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Aims to motivate individuals to make positive changes by addressing indecision and ambivalence.
- View motivation as a state open to influence and change.
- Techniques include providing advice, removing barriers, offering choices, reducing desirability, and giving feedback.
- Emphasizes collaboration, evocation, and autonomy, helping clients find their own motivation for change.
- Often used for addictions and managing health conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and asthma.
- Can be utilized for individuals experiencing anger or hostility, facilitating emotional stages of change.
Schema Therapy (ST)
- Combines elements of CBT, experiential, IPT, and psychoanalytic therapies.
- Focuses on schemas: enduring, self-defeating patterns originating in early life.
Applications of Cognitive & Behavioural Techniques
- Treat anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, irrational fears, hypochondria, substance misuse, problem gambling, eating disorders, insomnia, relationship issues, and emotional/behavioral problems in children/adolescents.
Assessment in Cognitive & Behavioural Therapy
- May involve questionnaires to identify problems and distressing symptoms.
- Explores individualized cognitions for each client, focusing on specific beliefs and their real-world occurrences.
Motivational Interviewing Techniques
- Designed to increase a client's readiness for change.
- Identifies and resolves ambivalence, recognizing that motivation is open to influence.
- Focuses on collaboration, evocation, and autonomy, helping clients find their own motivation.
Psychoeducation
- Educates clients about their psychological illness and teaches techniques to manage symptoms and conditions.
Socratic Questioning
- Helps explore and examine evidence for and against cognitive distortions by asking a series of questions to guide the client's thinking.
Behaviour Modification
- Focuses on how antecedents and consequences control behavior.
- Acknowledges that both appropriate and inappropriate behaviors are learned.
- Aims to change antecedents and consequences to increase or decrease specific behaviors.
Schedules of Reinforcement
- Continuous Reinforcement: Reinforces every instance of a target behavior.
- Intermittent Reinforcement: Delivers reinforcement after a specific number of behavioral occurrences.
Exposure Therapy
- Aims to modify fear by providing corrective information that contradicts the fear.
- Utilized to treat phobias, anxiety disorders, and PTSD.
- Two main types:
- In Vivo Exposure: Direct, gradual confrontation with real-life objects or situations that trigger fear and avoidance.
- Imaginal Exposure: Helps clients process traumatic experiences through visualization and imagining the trauma in a safe environment to reduce anxiety.
- Steps:
- Preparation: Gathering information, setting goals, and planning the exposure.
- Creation of an Exposure Hierarchy: Ranking feared situations based on subjective distress levels (SUDS).
- Initial Exposure: Starting with less anxiety-provoking situations and gradually moving up the hierarchy.
- Repeated Exposure: Re-exposing individuals numerous times to the situation or object to habituate the fear response.
- Interoceptive Exposure: Assists individuals in experiencing feared physical sensations associated with panic, such as hyperventilation.
Behavioural Activation (BA)
- Also known as activity scheduling or reward planning, commonly used for depression.
- Focuses on increasing behaviors that are likely to lead to rewards, both internal (sense of accomplishment) and external (social attention).
- Reduces rumination by increasing engagement in pleasurable and rewarding activities.
- Involves monitoring current activities, identifying potential rewarding activities, and utilizing graded task assignments to encourage participation.
Skills Training
- Focuses on teaching skills related to problem-solving, anger management, emotional regulation, social interactions, stress management, parenting, and self-care.
- Integrated into evidence-based therapies like DBT, CBT, and anger management programs.
- Examples:
- DBT: Mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotional regulation, and distress tolerance skills for managing Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
- CBT: Relaxation training for reducing tension in depression, anxiety, and pain management.
- Anger Management Programs: Relaxation techniques, emotional awareness, and alternative coping strategies.
- Addiction Treatment: Problem-solving, emotional regulation, and mindfulness skills.
Relaxation Strategies
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Help individuals cope with and manage anxiety.
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Provide rapid and reliable techniques for reducing tension and stress.
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Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR): Involves tensing and relaxing muscle groups to differentiate between tension and relaxation.
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Breathing Restraining: Used for clients who hyperventilate during anxiety. Teaches individuals to "re-breathe" exhaled air to help regulate breathing.
Psychodynamic Therapy
- Also known as insight-oriented therapy, focuses on unconscious processes influencing current behavior.
- Aims to increase self-awareness and understanding of how past experiences impact present behavior.
- Used to treat a range of disorders, including depression, particularly for individuals experiencing a sense of meaninglessness or difficulties in relationships.
- Therapist plays an active role in interpreting subconscious motivations.
- The therapist helps the client identify and understand the emotional conflicts underlying their behavior.
- The client directs the conversation while the therapist interprets underlying motivations.
- Key Goal: uncovering and processing internal conflicts, which are believed to be the root cause of mental health disturbances.
- Encourages expression of full range of emotions.
- Key Mechanisms: Goal setting, reality testing, confrontation, and empathic validation.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
- Aims to improve the quality of interpersonal relationships and social functioning.
- Focuses on addressing interpersonal deficits, unresolved grief, difficult life transitions, and interpersonal disputes.
- Examines current relationships rather than past ones, but acknowledges the influence internal conflicts.
- Differs from CBT by addressing maladaptive thoughts and behaviors specifically in relation to interpersonal relationships.
- Used to treat MDD, eating disorders, perinatal depression, substance abuse, dysthymia, and bipolar disorder.
IPT Applications
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Three Phases:
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Phase 1: Assessment and identification of problematic interpersonal issues/conflicts.
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Phase 2: Identifying problematic relationships, teaching management strategies, and addressing areas such as grief, interpersonal disputes, role transitions, and deficits in forming relationships.
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Phase 3: Collaborative termination of therapy with a forward plan.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
- Focuses on a person's present and future circumstances and goals rather than dwelling on past experiences.
- Uses a goal-oriented approach, largely ignoring the presenting issue, and views the client as the expert.
- Encourages clients to envision their ideal solution and outline steps to achieve it.
Solution-Focused Techniques
- Coping Questions: Emphasize the client's resilience and coping abilities.
- Miracle Questions: Help the client visualize a future without the problem.
- Scaling Questions: Assess current circumstances, progress, or perceptions of the client.
Applications of SFBT
- Individual therapy, family therapy, and couples therapy.
Family Systems
- Views families as emotional units where individuals are inseparable from their relationships.
- Emphasizes understanding family dynamics and how each member's actions impact the unit.
- This perspective emphasizes that what affects one family member affects the whole family.
Applications of Family Systems
- Depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, personality disorders, addiction, and food-related issues.
Ecotherapy/Ecological Intervention/Nature Therapy
- Recognizes humans as part of the natural world and the interconnectedness of our psyches with the environment.
- Rooted in systems theory, ecotherapy offers opportunities to explore one's relationship with nature.
- Foundation: Deep connection with the earth, believing in nature's self-regulating capacity and the potential for individuals to harmonize with it for improved mental health.
Ecotherapy Techniques
- Nature meditation
- Horticulture therapy
- Animal-assisted therapy
- Physical exercise in natural settings
- Involvement in conservation activities
Humanistic
- Values being one's true self to lead a fulfilling life.
- Emphasizes the uniqueness of each individual's perspective and its impact on choices and actions.
- Core belief: Humans are fundamentally good and capable of making positive choices for themselves.
Narrative Therapy
- Focuses on how personal narratives shape our perceptions of reality and self-concept.
- Exploring these narratives helps individuals uncover and heal psychological issues.
- Individuals build unique stories reflecting their experiences and forming their "narrative identity," which evolves over time.
- By identifying the client's focus and omissions in their narrative, therapists can spot opportunities for growth and healing.
Multicultural Applications of Narrative Therapy
- Indigenous Australians: Aligned with the cultural practice of "yarning," a method of sharing and transmitting information.
- Many indigenous peoples have experienced oppression and discrimination, internalizing resentment and hate.
- Narrative therapy is effective in externalizing problems, redirecting negative feelings, and promoting healing.
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