Lsu Pa Psychotherapy Csm

Front 1

List the selection criteria for pyschotherapy.

Back 1

Capacity for insight
High levels of ego functioning
Strong motivation to understand ones self ( beyond symptom relief)
Capacity to form in depth relationships ( particularly with therapist for therapeutic alliance)
Ability to tolerate anxiety

Front 2

List the 3 categories of psychotherapy.

Back 2

Supportive- Goal improve compliance, psycho-educational, provide empathic support, used during crisis, psychotic illness
Brief- situational, life crisis, symptom focused, 6-8 month in duration
Interpersonal- understand how dynamic of past relationships affect present

Front 3

List 3 areas for focus of psychological change.

Back 3

Emotions
Cognitions
Behavior

Front 4

Briefly describe the cognitive behavioral therapy triangle.

Back 4

Core beliefs ------Cognition(attitudes, automatic thoughts)-behavior-affect-back to cogntion. If you intervene within the triangle you can change core beliefs.

Front 5

List some common defense mechanisms.

Back 5

Denial- the refusal to accept reality or fact, acting as if a painful event, thought or feeling did not exist.

Projection-misattribution of a person’s undesired thoughts, feelings or impulses onto another person who does not have those thoughts, feelings or impulses

Reaction Formation-is the converting of unwanted or dangerous thoughts, feelings or impulses into their opposites

Rationalization-putting something into a different light or offering a different explanation for one’s perceptions or behaviors in the face of a changing reality

Displacement-redirecting of thoughts feelings and impulses directed at one person or object

Sublimation-channeling of unacceptable impulses, thoughts and emotions into more acceptable ones

Humor-Overt expression of ideas and feelings (especially those that are unpleasant to focus on or too terrible to talk about) that gives pleasure to others

Splitting- a person cannot stand the thought that someone might have both good and bad aspects, so they polarize their view of that person as someone who is "all good" or "all bad".

Front 6

List contraindications to psychotherapy.

Back 6

Actively Suicidal /Homicidal

The patient who is actively abusing alcohol or drugs

Persons with anti-social personality disorder

Usually people with psychotic
disorders

Front 7

Define antecedent.

Back 7

Antecedents are activating situations or life events (something happens or is about to happen-situations about which the individual has strong feelings)

Front 8

Name the following as either Denial, Regression, Projection, Repression, Reaction Formation, Rationalization, Displacement, Sublimation, Suppression, or Splitting.


A. I'm not angry with him!

B. That attending hates me.

C. Let’s shoot spitballs at people

D. I think he’s really great!

E. Oh, no my tour of duty in Iraq had no effect on me.

Back 8

Denial-A.
Regression-C.
Projection-B.
Repression-E
Reaction Formation-D

Front 9

Name the following as either Denial, Regression, Projection, Repression, Reaction Formation, Rationalization, Displacement, Sublimation, Suppression, or Splitting.


A. I hate that secretary!
B. She’s so critical only because she wants us to do our best!
C. Need to control others becomes a prison guard
D. I’m going to write a poem about anger!
E. You and the nurses are the only ones that understand me, all the doctors are mean and impatient.

Back 9

Rationalization-B
Displacement-A
Sublimation-D
Suppression-C
Splitting-E

Front 10

A patient who “knows” he is going to have a panic attack at the market where he had one last month. Is demonstrating what type of thought?

Back 10

Automatic thought

Front 11

A. Rationalization
B. Projection
C. Denial
D. Reaction formation
E. Sublimation
In the questions below, select one best answer from the list above. The above may be selected once or more or not at all

1. A 45 yr old man who is having problems at work begins to complain that his boss “has it in for me.”
2. A 34 yr old married woman who finds herself strongly attracted to a friend of her husband’s is nasty to that friend.
3. A 35 yr old gambler loses $500 at the races but says he is not upset b/c “I would have spent that money on something else anyway.”

Back 11

1.) A
2.) D
3.) A

Front 12

A. Rationalization
B. Projection
C. Denial
D. Reaction formation
E. Sublimation
In the questions below, select one best answer from the list above. The above may be selected once or more or not at all


4. A 42 yr old man is discharged from a cardiac intensive care unit after suffering a severe MI, but continues to smoke two PPD

5. A person experiencing extreme anger takes up kick boxing.

Back 12

4.) C
5.) E

Front 13

The refusal to accept reality or fact, acting as if a painful event, thought or feeling did not exist.

Back 13

Denial

Front 14

Misattribution of a person’s undesired thoughts, feelings or impulses onto another person who does not have those thoughts, feelings or impulses

Back 14

Projection

Front 15

Is the converting of unwanted or dangerous thoughts, feelings or impulses into their opposites

Back 15

Reaction Formation

Front 16

Putting something into a different light or offering a different explanation for one’s perceptions or behaviors in the face of a changing reality

Back 16

Rationalization

Front 17

Redirecting of thoughts feelings and impulses directed at one person or object

Back 17

Displacement

Front 18

Channeling of unacceptable impulses, thoughts and emotions into more acceptable ones

Back 18

Sublimation

Front 19

Overt expression of ideas and feelings (especially those that are unpleasant to focus on or too terrible to talk about) that gives pleasure to others

Back 19

Humor

Front 20

A person cannot stand the thought that someone might have both good and bad aspects, so they polarize their view of that person as someone who is "all good" or "all bad".

Back 20

Splitting