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NCMHCE Treatments
Therapies and treatments
Treatment/Therapy | Description |
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Individual Grief Therapy | Differs from "grief counseling" since addresses abnormal or complicated grief (prolonged, somatic/behavioral symptoms, exaggerated grief response) |
Multisystemic Therapy (MST) | Intensive, family-focused, community-based treatment; evidence-based, goal oriented, eliminate env. that leads to - behavior, focus on + beh.-helps caregivers (good for chronic/violent youth, Conduct Disorder) |
Reality Therapy (RT) | 3 R's: realism, responsibility, right-and-wrong, rather than symptoms; fulfill essential needs in present (not past); problem-solving, here-and-now to create/choose better future |
Relaxation Training | Helps manage stress, anxiety |
Therapeutic Interventions (ABA; Behavior Mod.) | Reduce or eliminate problem behavior (covert sensitization; covert extinction--imagine target behavior with either aversive consequence or no reinforcer) |
Flooding | Behavior Therapy: treats phobia, anxiety, PTSD by exposing patient to painful memories while reintegrating repressed emotions with current awareness |
Systematic Desensitization | Beh, Therapy (anxiety or avoidance reactions): Use relaxation skills to react/overcome situations in established hierarchy of fears. Learn to cope and overcome the fear with each step in hierarchy. |
CBT, Cognitive Restructuring | Reduces impact of negative thinking; useful for bereavement, anxiety, eating disorders, understanding illness, behavior change (med compliance) |
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy | Past (childhood, unresolved conflicts, relationships) influence current situation. Self-awareness; For depression (unconscious conflicts), panic (symptoms/dynamics), personality disorders; defenses conscious, to make feelings less threatening. |
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) | Borderline, suicidal; 2 opposing views discussed until middle way is found. Change unhealthy, disruptive behavior (overstepping boundaries)-skills to deal with future sit.; strong between patient/therapist. Individual/group therapy to practice skills |
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) | 1:1 to treat depression/dysthymia. Improve communication patterns and ways people relate/interact with others. Behavior change-identify triggers and learn to express emotions in healthy way. IPSRT for Bipolar disorder. |
Family-Focused Therapy (FFT) | Bipolar disorder. Relationship with family vital to managing illness. Includes *family education on bipolar disorder, building communication skills for stress, solve problems as a family (child/adol. depression, eating disorders, schizophrenia) |
Multimodal Behavior Therapy (Lazarus) | Subset of CBT; individualized based on needs; BASIC ID (Behavior, Affect, Sensation, Imagery, Cognition, Interpersonal relationships, Drugs/Biology) |
Motivational Interviewing | Semi-directive, client centered for eliciting behavior change; focused and goal-directed; intrinsic motivation to change behavior |
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) | PTSD; rapid eye movements associated with distressing or traumatic thoughts. Move eyes to "reprocess" memories and relieve distress. |
Empty Chair | Brings client to present/immediate experiences; experience different aspects of own conflicts through empty-chair dialogue (bereavement-express conflicting emotions related to the loss) |
Sensate Focusing | Sexual exercises for couples or individuals |
Bibliotherapy | Expressive therapy that uses relationship to the content of books/written words; depression |
Family Mapping | Useful for evaluating the interpersonal relationships within the family |
Lifestyle Assessment | Assessment of lifestyle factors over which patients have some control. The inventory encompasses the physical, emotional and social components of health for mortality, quality of life |
Mood graph | Tracking mood on a graph aids in determining the client’s level of depression, as well as progress being made in coping, etc. |
H.W. Assignments | This serves as a measure of compliance and motivation. Approaches may include 1) journaling, 2) bibliotherapy (reading assignments), 3) memorialization. |
Social Skills Training | Improving communication and social interactions. Includes behaviorally based instruction, modeling, corrective feedback, and contingent social reinforcement. |
Self-Help Groups | can improve symptoms and increase client’s social networks and quality of life. Positive outcomes: reductions in hospitalizations, improved coping, acceptance, medication adherence, illness management, daily functioning, lower worry, better health |
Psychoeducation | Understand disorder; med compliance, recognize relapse, helps family/caregivers |
Mirror Exposure | deliberate, planned, systematic exposure to body image (anorexia) |
Supportive Psychotherapy | NOT for panic disorder; similar or inferior for depression) ess directive form of therapy that involves principles: unconditional positive regard, reassurance, and increasing self esteem, psychological functioning, and adaptive skills. Eating disorders |
Behavioral activation | third generation behavior therapy for treating depression. generally referred to as applied behavior analysis; goals, activities, tracks progress in achieving goals and positive/rewarding activities |
Aversion Therapy | A type of behavior therapy designed to modify undesirable or antisocial habits or addictions by creating a strong association with a disagreeable or painful stimulus. Substance dependence |
Person-Centered Therapy | Non-direction (client leads) and unconditional positive regard. Increases self-esteem (Conduct disorder) |
Prodrome Detection | Form of psychotherapy, clinician meets with client to discuss the personal experience, signs preceding manic and depressive episodes. Action plan to address symptoms. maintain a diary for future symptoms. BP disorder and educating client about disorder |
Prolonged Exposure Therapy | Most highly effective treatment for PTSD. Uses systematic desensitization and imagine flooding. |
In Vivo Exposure | Gradual exposure to feared and avoided situations or activities can help GAD clients reduce anxiety associated with external stimuli |
Interoceptive Exposure | controlled exposure to sensations of autonomic arousal such as voluntary hyperventilation can help GAD clients deal with physical symptoms of anxiety. |
Script analysis | Used to identify early parental injuctions; life plan evolves from early family transactions (life plan or script) which can be changed. |
Free association | Make unconscious conflicts conscious--not helpful if conflicts already known |
Transactional Analysis |