LAW AND ETHICS
Duty to protect, applies when a patient makes a threat to a psychotherapist of serious violence against a reasonably identifiable victim or victims.
Tarasoff duty
This is a brief, process-oriented form of counseling. The client-therapist relationship is based on developing or rebuilding trust and centers on expressing emotions. This approach to therapy looks at the connection between an infant’s early attachment experiences with primary caregivers, usually with parents, and the infant’s ability to develop normally and ultimately form healthy emotional and physical relationships as an adult. Attachment-based therapy aims to build or rebuild a trusting, supportive relationship that will help prevent or treat mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression.
Attachment Theory
you can use brief assessment to determine the impact of mental health symptoms through direct questions and therapist observations. In it, the therapist will evaluate your memory, clarity of thinking, emotional state, risk of harm, and intellectual functioning. This exam can help with diagnosis and treatment planning.
Mental status exam
This family therapy is present-oriented, focusing on the current problems and addressing them. The structural family therapy model is often seen as a way to treat the individual by treating the underlying cause of their troubling behavior
Minuchin's family therapy techniques
This is a mental disorder that causes people to experience excessive and uncontrollable worry about everyday events:
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
This occurs when a therapist or other mental health professional has more than one relationship with a client. This can include: A prior personal relationship and a professional relationship, A business relationship that develops during a professional relationship , A client who is also a family member or friend , A client who is also an employee or business associate, A therapist coming across a client in a setting outside of the therapist's office
Dual Relationship
This is a short-term form of behavioral treatment. It helps people problem-solve. This type of therapy also reveals the relationship between beliefs, thoughts, and feelings, and the behaviors that follow.
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
This refers to any (psychotherapeutic) intervention with a solid research base showing it works. Since the body of psychotherapy research has grown over time, it’s gotten easier to assure that a strategy is valid and clinically proven to be effective.
Evidence-based intervention
This is a theory of human behavior that views the family as an emotional unit and uses systems thinking to describe the unit's complex interactions. It is the nature of a family that its members are intensely connected emotionally.
Bowen family systems theory
This Mental Health Disorder is a chronic mood disorder that involves a depressed mood that lasts for most of the day, for most days, over a period of at least two years
Persistent depressive disorder (PDD), also known as dysthymia
Designated professionals who are required by law to report known or suspected child abuse.
Mandated Reporter
This refers to a type of psychological therapy that emphasizes the existence of the human being. And the unique experiences we have. It helps individuals to come to terms with their own mortality and to find meaning in their lives.
Existential therapy
These are a perceptual experience that occurs in the absence of a real stimulus. The person hears, sees, tastes, smells, or feels things that aren’t really there. Hallucinations can indicate serious medical and psychological conditions.
Hallucinations
This is a collaborative, nondirective, and short-term therapy that helps families understand how their life stories have shaped them and how to reauthor their stories. It's based on the idea that people's lives are shaped by the stories they create or are created for them.
Narrative family therapy
This is a real disorder that develops when a person has experienced or witnessed a scary, shocking, terrifying, or dangerous event. These stressful or traumatic events usually involve a situation where someone's life has been threatened or severe injury has occurred.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
While the AAMFT code of ethics does not have a specific standard regarding this, it is important to acknowledge that the United States is constantly undergoing major demographic changes. The demographic shift is projected to continue with increased diversity in our population.
Cultural Competence
This is a humanistic, holistic, person-centered form of psychotherapy that is focused on a person’s present life and challenges rather than delving into past experiences.
Gestalt therapy
These are fixed beliefs that are highly unlikely to be real. For example, someone might believe aliens are talking to them through their TV news, or that they have special powers to predict the future. These are another potential sign of serious illness, so therapists routinely assess for these.
Delusions
This is a form of psychological treatment that involves patients and their therapists discovering unhealthy thought patterns, behaviors, and coping mechanisms and making efforts to change these disruptive behaviors. Within Marriage and Family Therapy, this treatment could be used to further understand a patient’s impact on their family dynamic and ways they can work to improve it.
Cognitive behavioral family therapy
This is also known as fecal incontinence or soiling, is the involuntary or intentional passing of stool into inappropriate places, such as clothing, by children who are older than four years old. It's usually caused by chronic constipation but can also be caused by emotional issues.
Encopresis
The Penal Code (P.C.) defines this as: “a physical injury inflicted by other than accidental means on a child by another person.” It also includes emotional abuse sexual abuse, neglect, or abuse in out-of-home care. Child abuse does not include a “mutual affray between minors,” “reasonable and necessary force used by a peace officer” under specified circumstances, or spanking that is reasonable and age appropriate and does not expose the child to risk of serious injury. (P.C. 11165.6, Welfare and Institutions Code (W&IC) Section 300.)
Child Abuse
This is a positive approach to psychotherapy that focuses on a person’s individual nature, rather than categorizing groups of people with similar characteristics as having the same problems.
Humanistic therapy/Person Centered
This is a learning process that uses rewards and punishments to modify behavior. It's also known as instrumental conditioning or Skinnerian conditioning.
Operant conditioning
This a family therapy approach that focuses on building solutions rather than analyzing problems
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
This is a group of symptoms, such as stress, anxiety, feeling sad or hopeless, and physical symptoms that can occur after you go through a stressful life event. The symptoms occur because you are having a hard time coping. Your reaction is stronger than expected for the type of event that occurred.
Adjustment disorder