Therapy Basics
A session focused on gathering important clinical information from the patient. Typically the first session.
What is the clinical interview?
Developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Who is Marsha Linehan?
The main idea behind CBT - that your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are all connected.
What is the cognitive model?
These features are what make third wave CBT approaches distinct from traditional CBT.
What are validation, acceptance, and mindfulness?
Behavioral theory uses the following acronym to describe the three components of behavior.
What are A (antecedent), B (behavior), and C (consequence)?
A response to a patient which might sounds like "Wow, it sounds like you're feeling really overwhelmed."
What is an empathic reflection?
Created the psychosexual stages.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
These thoughts, which are often negative, are taught to be challenged and replaced with more realistic ones.
What are cognitive distortions?
DBT is a third wave modality which typical includes the following modules.
What are interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and mindfulness.
Children with externalizing behaviors (as seen with such disorders as ADHD and ODD) benefit from this modality of therapy.
A collaboratively created set of goals to work towards with the patient.
What is a treatment plan?
Researcher who created the "strange situation" method for assessing attachment styles.
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
This type of intervention is CBT is commonly used to treat depression by increasing engagement in pleasurable or meaningful activities, or even just any activity.
What is behavioral activation?
This 6 sided figure described the 6 core elements of ACT, including Acceptance, Values, and Defusion.
What is the Hexaflex?
Solution focused therapy utilizes this intervention which encourages patient to imagine, in detail, what their life might be like if a specific problem was suddenly resolved.
What is the miracle question?
Reviewing basic information with the patient regarding what to expect from therapy and other important information (like confidentiality, etc).
What is "setting the frame"?
Wrote the article "Hate in Countertransference," and introduced the idea that psychoanalysts' have real and impactful emotions about/toward their patients.
Who is Donald Winnicott?
In CBT, this is the basic overview of how we explain the experience of our patients, and includes relevant life history, core beliefs, coping strategies, and a breakdown of how thoughts impact emotions and behavior in specific situations.
What is the Cognitive Conceptualization (Diagram)?
Motivational Interviewing encourages its therapists to maintain a mindset characterized by this acronym.
What is PACE (partnership, acceptance, compassion, and evoking)?
This is the primary technique used in brief psychodynamic therapy to conceptualize a patient's negative relational patterns.
What is the Cyclical Maladaptive Pattern (CMP)?
What is case conceptualization?
One of developers of motivational interviewing and wears bolo ties.
Who is William R. Miller?
In the 1960s, this man developed that core principles of CBT.
Who is Aaron Beck?
This is an ACT tool that rapidly maps out problems, identifies sources of suffering, and helps to formulate an approach to handling the problems, which often describes actions as towards or away moves.
What is a choice point?
A main advantage of this evidence-based treatment for PTSD is that is does not require the patient to describe their trauma narrative.
What is Cognitive Processing Therapy?