Clinical Terms #1
This four letter screening tool is used to screen alcohol use in clients
What is the CAGE
This technique is used to help clients explore their thoughts and emotions through the used of questions that encourage explorative thought, instead of yes or no answers.
What are Open Ended Questions
To meet criteria for this diagnosis, you must meet at two or more of the following:
1. Delusions
2. Hallucinations
3. Disorganized speech
4. grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior (rigid movement, erratic movement, extreme movement, repetition of words or behaviors)
5. Negative Symptoms (diminished emotional expression)
What is Schizophrenia?
This modality incorporates elements or cognitive behavioral, attachment, humanistic, empowerment, and family models. It includes several core treatment components that include trauma narrative, explorative thinking, and open ended and guided questioning. Primarily used to address issues similar to sexual abuse in children and families.
What is TF-CBT
Trauma Focused CBT
Some sexual behaviors are illegal but not abusive, while others may be abusive and not defined by law as "offenses". name some types of sexual behaviors:
What is:
child to child abuse
Sexual contact with a person of trust (babysitter)
Sexual contact without consent
Non contact sexual offenses in children (exposing/peeping)
In the DSM V, replacing the terms "Dependence" and "Abuse", this term is used to diagnose substance abuse on a scale of mild, moderate, or severe as modifiers.
What is "Use Disorder"
This technique is used to help clients understand the cognitive triangle, which is the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behavior
What is Cognitive Coping
Complete a differential diagnosis based on the information presented:
Client is showing symptoms of often losing his temper, is easily annoyed, argues with adults and refuses to comply with authority figures, has been spiteful and vindictive within last 6 months.
What is ODD?
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Why is it not Conduct?
This modality operates on the humanistic belief that the client is inherently driven toward and has the capacity for growth and self-actualization
What is Person Centered Approach
These could be some "yellow flags" clients exhibit to be aware of when evaluating children for sexualized behavior in children.
What is:
Preoccupation with sexual themes
Pulling up a girl's skirt or dress
Sexually explicit conversation with peers
Mutual masturbation/group
Stimulating foreplay with dolls or peers
(kissing, petting, touching over clothes)
Symptoms include feeling overly energetic, grandiose, decreased need for sleep or rest, talking more than usual, racing thoughts, and increase in goal directed activity.
What is Mania
This term is used when you introduce separate harmless reminders of a client's trauma or triggers from fear. Example: A client with a few of the dark, you may ask them to describe what they fear in the dark or create a fear ladder list with the client.
What is In Vivo Exposure?
*used to reduce avoidance that interfered with daily functioning.
This diagnosis requires clients to meet 4 or more of the following symptoms occur in conjunction with following fear of it occurring again, or changes in a client's behavior:
palpitations, heart racing, sweating, feeling of choking, shaking, sensations of shortness of breath, chills/heat sensations, numbness, fear of losing control, fear of dying, nausea/stomach upset
What is Panic Disorder
This method involves moving your eyes a specific way while you process traumatic memories. EMDR's goal is to help you heal from trauma or other distressing life experiences.
What is EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing
This trauma screening can be used to help identify stressful and scary events that have happened in a child's life and help you as a clinician determine if there has been a history of trauma.
Harborview Trauma Screen (child/adolescent version)
Child PTSD Symptom Scale
This therapy tool is used to provide information about symptoms or diagnosis to clients to help better understand their symptomology and can assist with being aware of triggers.
What is Psychoeducation
This technique is helpful to identify unhelpful and inaccurate thoughts, evaluate ways trauma exposure may have changed views of self, the world, family, or future. It can help to identify more helpful ways to think about their trauma instead of define themselves by their experiences.
What is Cognitive processing?
This diagnosis is given when there is a refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height. Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, disturbance in the way one's body weight or shape is perceived, and possibility of amenorrhea in post mecharcheal females
What is Anorexia Nervosa
2 types: Restricting and Binge Eating/Purging
This is a structured program of psychotherapy with a strong educational component designed to provide skills for managing intense emotions and negotiating social relationships.
used more commonly with clients with BPD
What is DBT
Dialectical behavior therapy
Describe the difference between Acute Stress Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
What is "Criteria the same minus the triggering or traumatic event has occurred less than 30 days from onset of symptoms."
This technique is used to convey understanding about a client's feelings and offer indentification, interpretation, and validating responses for emotions and needs.
What is Empathy?
This technique is used with clients to provide exposure to trauma related events through art, journaling, story telling, poems, raps, songs, etc to describe a clients history of events regarding the traumatic experience.
What is a trauma narrative
Criteria includes excessive thoughts, feelings, or behaviors related to the somatic symptoms or health concerns, one or more somatic symptoms that are distressing, persistent high levels of anxiety about health symptoms, excessive time and energy devoted to these symptoms or health concerns, and present for at least 6 months persistently
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
This is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on relieving symptoms by improving interpersonal functioning. A central idea is that psychological symptoms can be understood as a response to current difficulties in everyday relationships with other people.
What is Interpersonal Therapy?
Examples?
A person going through a breakup might notice that their depression developed after the breakup. The therapist will also develop an “interpersonal inventory” that reviews the client's pattern of behavior in relationships and evaluation of current relationships.
All of these are criteria for TF CBT except for:
1. Child is 3-18 years old.
2. Child has a trauma hx.
3. Child has met full diagnostic criteria for PTSD.
4. Child has other symptoms related to trauma.
5. Parent/caregiver involvement is desirable.
What is 3. Child has PTSD diagnosis.
Client does NOT have to meet full criteria for PTSD. They just need to have some of the symptoms for this treatment model to be affective.