Common Medications to Treat Mental Health
Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, Ativan
Anti-Anxiety
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Abrasion
4th stage: Both parties are actively participating in finding a solution that works for everyone involved.
Collaborating
Refers to developing an understanding of how a particular family is structured, how the individual family members interact with one another, and how the family works.
Structural family therapy
The primary idea of this therapy concludes that behavior is influenced by feelings and thoughts. Social workers use this method to assist in identifying self-destructive thoughts or dangerous and self-destructive behaviors. This line of therapy is best utilized for those with mental health concerns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Thorazine, Prolixin, Haldol, Trilafon, Mellaril
Typical Antipsychotics
Contusion
5th stage: individuals coming together to establish what they each want, and then splitting the difference or finding a middle ground where they each are gaining something. In these instances, neither party walks away with everything they wanted.
Compromising
Examines family members and any defined patterns of interaction that exists. This former therapy is solution based. Ultimately, the aim is to help the individual family members to think strategically in order to meet their goals and develop plans and solutions for future problems.
Strategic family therapy
The focus of this crisis intervention model is to help those experiencing a crisis or who have suffered trauma. This line of therapeutic intervention is used to assist victims of domestic violence, those who need interventions to halt self-harm, or rape trauma victims.
Crisis intervention model
Adderall, Focalin, Ritalin, Concerta, Methylin
Stimulants
Fracture
1st stage: an individual will remove himself from conflict as a means of eliminating the confrontation and dissolving tension. This does not resolve the conflict, it only delays the discussion and neutralizes the conflict at that moment.
Avoidance
Uses a belief system as the focus of the therapy process. Utilizing social-cultural beliefs and perceptions that family members have in order to see the rules within the family dynamic is key.
Systemic family therapy
Discord therapy uses the process of taking an individual and helping them to separate themselves from their problems in order to show them that their problems are separate from them and that it is possible to change their circumstances by showing them a different perspective.
Narrative therapy
Lithium, Lamictal, Epitol, Carbatrol, Tegretol
Mood Stabilizers
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Edema
3rd stage: one individual having to concede to the demands of the other. There is a lack of assertiveness on the given party side, and while it may seem like this would solve the conflict, it most often results in fostering feelings of being wronged, which leads to further conflict.
Accommodating
The idea that each person has their own individual story to tell throughout their life. The stories help shape that person. This therapy helps separate the person or people from the problem they are encountering. It allows them to rely on their own skills and abilities to objectively see the problem rather than feeling like the story shapes how they should be dealing with the problem or finding a solution.
Narrative family therapy
Social workers use this in order to help client identify a problem that they would like to solve, create an action plan in order to find a solution, and then work towards that goal together using strategies that can be changed as necessary until the problem is resolved.
Problem-solving model
Celexa, Lexapro, Prozac, Zoloft
SSRI Antidepressants
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Abscess
2nd stage: Individual goes into a conflict with the idea that they're going to win. This type of conflict resolution decreases cooperation and usually results and everyone losing out on finding a solution.
Competing
uses past issues or difficulties as a means of foreshadowing future complex. The reason this approach provides valuable is that solutions to past problems maybe utilize to solve problems in the future as well as dismiss things that have proven to be ineffective in the family dynamic
Transgenerational therapy
This form of therapy is used by social workers to help clients utilize their own strengths and abilities to create solutions for problems the client would like to solve. This form of therapy allows the client to feel actively involved in the solution and to develop a sense of pride and fulfillment and being able to solve a solution using themselves as a resource.
Solution focused therapy