Diagnoses
A client reports excessive worry occurring most days for over six months about multiple areas of life.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
This intervention teaches clients about symptoms, diagnoses, and treatment options.
What is Psychoeducation?
This theory focuses on changing maladaptive thoughts and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
The "G" in GARP stands for this.
What is Goal?
A client refuses to acknowledge a painful reality despite clear evidence.
What is Denial?
Thought Record
What is CBT?
This disorder includes intrusive memories, avoidance, hypervigilance, and negative changes in mood following a traumatic event.
What is PTSD?
This intervention helps clients identify and challenge distorted thinking patterns.
What is Cognitive Restructuring?
This theory emphasizes acceptance, mindfulness, and values-based action.
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)?
This section of a progress note documents what occurred during the session.
What is the Intervention or Assessment section?
A client attributes their unacceptable thoughts or feelings to someone else.
What is Projection?
Values Clarification
What is ACT?
A client experiences periods of elevated mood, decreased need for sleep, grandiosity, and impulsive behavior.
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
This intervention involves practicing new skills during session before using them in real life.
What is Role-Playing or Behavioral Rehearsal?
This theory highlights unconditional positive regard, empathy, and genuineness.
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
Documentation should be factual and avoid this type of language.
What is Judgmental or Subjective Language?
A client redirects anger toward a safer target rather than the source of frustration.
What is Displacement?
Miracle Question
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?
This disorder involves persistent difficulties with attention, organization, and impulse control.
What is ADHD?
This intervention encourages participation in enjoyable or meaningful activities to reduce depressive symptoms.
What is Behavioral Activation?
This theory explores unconscious processes and childhood experiences.
What is Psychodynamic Theory?
A treatment plan should contain measurable and specific versions of these.
What are Goals and Objectives?
A client explains problematic behavior with seemingly logical reasons while avoiding the true explanation.
What is Rationalization?
Empty Chair Technique
What is Gestalt Therapy?
A client demonstrates unstable relationships, fear of abandonment, emotional dysregulation, and identity disturbance.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This intervention asks a client to imagine speaking directly to a person who is not physically present.
What is the Empty Chair Technique?
This family therapy theory examines patterns, boundaries, and family interactions.
What is Family Systems Theory?
This phrase refers to documenting only information relevant to treatment and client care.
What is Medical Necessity?
A client unconsciously returns to behaviors associated with an earlier developmental stage.
What is Regression?
Scaling Questions
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?
A client reports passive suicidal thoughts but denies plan, intent, or means. What are the first three things a clinician should assess?