Psychotherapy Approaches
This therapy helps clients gain insight into unconscious conflicts rooted in childhood. It's used for clients who have a clear area of difficulty and are highly motivated to improve.
What is psychodynamic psychotherapy?
A CBT strategy used to help clients identify and refocus attention on more adaptive activities. Part of activity scheduling.
What is priority restructuring?
A form of CBT used to treat borderline personality disorder. It teaches mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.
What is dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)?
Provides intense therapy during the day while the client resides at home. A step-down from inpatient care.
What is a partial hospitalization program (PHP)?
Unwritten behavioral expectations. the role is to establish safety and predictability in group therapy.
What are group norms?
This is a short-term therapy focused on improving interpersonal relationships to reduce depressive symptoms. It addresses grief, role transitions, and disputes.
What is interpersonal psychotherapy?
a cognitive technique that promotes client self-awareness and identification of stressors and triggers.
What is journal keeping?
A psychoanalytic technique used to explore unconscious conflicts. While not common in modern nursing practice, it’s foundational in understanding classic theories of psychotherapy.
What is dream analysis and interpretation?
an intensive case management for clients with severe mental illness. A multidisciplinary team provides 24/7 support.
What is assertive community treatment (ACT)?
A smaller group within a larger group. This may hinder group cohesion and should be addressed therapeutically.
What is a subgroup?
Aimed at identifying and correcting distorted thinking patterns that lead to maladaptive behavior and emotions. Promotes its use in anxiety, depression, and trauma-related disorders.
What is cognitive therapy?
Helps clients communicate needs effectively and respectfully. Recommended for clients with dependency issues.
What is assertiveness training?
his is when a client views the therapist as someone from their past. It helps reveal unresolved feelings and dynamics.
What is transference?
Publicly funded centers offering outpatient services including medication management and therapy.
What are community mental health centers?
When a group member has unspoken goals that differ from the group’s purpose. This can undermine group success.
What is a hidden agenda?
Focuses on changing negative behaviors using techniques like modeling, operant conditioning, and systemic desensitization. Used in treating phobias and substance use.
What is behavioral therapy?
Also called cognitive monitoring. It helps clients become aware of automatic thoughts that contribute to negative emotional states
What is monitoring thoughts?
he nurse's emotional response to a client, based on the nurse’s own background. ATI advises maintaining self-awareness to prevent blurred boundaries.
What is countertransference?
programs to help clients develop skills needed for independent living and employment.
What are psychosocial rehabilitation programs?
Assigning blame to one family member to deflect attention from larger issues. It’s common in dysfunctional families.
What is scapegoating?
Combines cognitive restructuring and behavioral strategies. Its effective in anxiety, depression, and eating disorders.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
A behavioral exposure technique where the client is exposed to a high-anxiety stimulus. Its used with caution under controlled conditions to prevent overwhelming the client.
What is flooding?
A long-term therapy developed by Freud, focusing on unconscious motives, defense mechanisms, and early childhood experiences. A foundation for modern therapeutic techniques.
What is classical psychoanalysis?
Coordinates physical and mental health services. Reduces fragmentation.
What is case management?
Involves drawing in a third party to mediate tension. An unhealthy family dynamic.
What is triangulation?