Therapeutic Skills
Key Terms in Mental Health
Types of Therapy
DSM-5 Diagnosis
Random
100

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Empathy

100

Something that a person feels or experiences that may indicate that they have a disease or condition.

Symptoms

100

Creative techniques such as drawing, painting, collage, coloring, or sculpting.

Art Therapy 

100

When an individual experiences persistent worry about everyday challenges out of proportion to the perceived threat.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder 

100

When must case notes be completed?

With clients last 15-20 minutes of session or within 24 hours if could not during session. 

200

______  _______ is listening with intention and then repeating what you heard back to the speaker to ensure you correctly understood them.

Reflective Listening

200

Strategies or tactics that can help you deal with stressful situations and lessen unpleasant emotions, thoughts, or behaviors.

Coping Skills 

200

Short-term form of psychotherapy based on the idea that the way someone thinks and feels affects the way he or she behaves.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

200

Disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest

Major Depressive Disorder 

200

What must always be the last goal in all treatment plans?

Discharge goal

300

Clinician's can _____  _______  to give the client a safe space to reflect rather than feeling like something must be said.

Utilize Silence

300

Behavioral or mental patterns that cause significant distress or impairment of personal functioning

Mental Health Disorder/Mental Health Condition/Mental Disorder

300

Method to help people resolve ambivalent feelings and commit to the difficult process of change 

 

Motivational Interviewing

300

Diagnosed in children and adolescents who are frequently angry and hostile. Children and adolescents with the condition typically have temper tantrums or angry outbursts several days per week for at least one year.

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)

300

Who do we always care coordinate with/how often?

The referral source, weekly. Possibly outpatient/psychiatrist/other providers. 

400

When clinician's reveal personal information about themselves. It should only be used if it benefits the therapeutic process and if it appears essential to help the therapeutic relationship.

Self-Disclosure
400

Physical expression of feelings

Affect 

400

Typically targeted to children ages 3 to 11 who have social, emotional, or behavioral difficulties

Play Therapy 

400

Disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, dangerous, or life-threatening event that is outside the range of usual human experience.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 

400

How long do we have to complete a reauthorization request for supervisor review when we receive the email from Kara and how long do we have to complete edits requested by our supervisors?

48 hours/Same day.

500

Allowing clients to hear the feelings they have just expressed to help them better understand their emotional responses.

Reflecting Feelings

500

Treatments that are supported by clinical evidence from systematic relevant research that has been conducted using sound methodology

Evidenced-Based

500

Psychotherapy technique designed to relieve the distress associated with disturbing memories. It involves recalling a specific troublesome experience while following a side-to-side visual stimulus delivered by the therapist.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)

500

A neurological and developmental disorder that affects how people interact with others, communicate, learn, and behave.

Autism Spectrum Disorder 

500

What information is provided in Kara's new client assignment email? *hint 3 

Funding dates, Treatment plan due date, Target date.

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