Treatment Methods & Evidence-Based Practices
A form of psychotherapy that maintains that problems are cause by distorted thinking or faulty information processing.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
A response to prolonged occupational stress found in those who work in the helping professions. Symptoms include irritability, exhaustion, absence from work.
What is Burnout
The desired results or outcomes of the clinical work and relationship.
What are Goals
Having two or more opposing ideas, feelings, or impulses simultaneously, which often leads to feeling stuck and immobilized.
What is Ambivalence
Nondirective questions that keep client's in the driver's seat or the conversation by giving them more opportunity or flexibility in responding and elaborating.
What are Open-Ended Questions
A humanistic, client-centered, psychosocial, directive counseling approach that was developed by William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick in the early 1980s.
What is Motivational Interviewing (MI)
The process of experiencing the world from another's subjective perspective while maintaining one's own perspective as an outside observer.
What is Empathy
A clinical assessment tool that reflects multigenerational family relationships, patterns, and intergenerational transmission of assets and issues.
What is a Genogram
A skill in which the clinician subtly matches the client's posture, facial expressions, and gestures, while being careful not to mimic or parrot them, in order to increase rapport and empathy. Can be used as a form of physical reflection.
What is Mirroring
Clinician statements that accurately represent the client's stated or implied feelings.
What is Reflection of Affect
A specially tailored cognitive-behavioral program developed by Marsha Linehan that teaches hopefulness, self-acceptance, emotional stability strategies, and other coping skills to people whose powerful, poorly regulated feeling states and self-destructive impulses have made life hard for them and for people around them
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Information gathering conversations that include client self-reports and the clinician's experience during the conversation. These may be unstructured, semi-structured, or structured.
What are Assessment Interviews
Cross-dressers, transgenderists, trans-sexuals, or other people who do not fit into the stereotypes for male or female behavior.
What is Gender Variant
People, circumstances, ideas, feelings, and events that stimulate behavioral reactions.
What are Triggers
Allows the clinician to show empathy for the client and encourages the client to communicate comfortably with the therapist.
What is Reflective Listening
An experiential and existential approach based on the assumptions that individuals and their behavior must be understood in the context of their present environment. This approach focuses on the here-and-now.
What is Gestalt Therapy
The appreciation and affirmation of clients as people of worth. The clinician communicates nonjudgmental acceptance and genuine care for the client.
What is Unconditional Positive Regard
A group of clinicians hire a supervisor for regular meetings focusing on education and support, where discussions of clinician-client dialogues, learning dilemmas, techniques, and case-planning concerns affirm the mutuality of the learning process.
What is Group Supervision
Miller and Rollnick use this term to describe the reasons that a person gives to himself or herself for not changing.
What is Sustain Talk
Engaging, Focusing, Evoking and Planning
What are the Four Processes of Motivational Interviewing (MI)
An eight-phase psychotherapeutic treatment designed to address the emotional distress and symptomology associated with trauma. It requires participants to consider three time periods: past, present, and future.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
The strength of the connection between client and clinician, based on the agreement about the goals, tasks, methods, and evaluation of their work together. It is enhanced by the clinician's qualities such as warmth, support, caring, and empathy.
What is a Working Alliance
Given to clinicians by clients that may often express subtle or unconscious client needs, dynamics, or hopes in regard to the clinician.
What are Gifts as Symbolic Messages
Gerard Egan's acronym for sitting Squarely in Open posture, Leaning forward, making Eye contact, and Relaxing into the moment.
What is SOLER
Asking Open-Ended Questions, Affirming, Reflective Listening, Summarizing, Informing and Advising
What are the Five Core Skills of Motivational Interviewing (MI)