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What is the goal of supportive therapy?
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The goal is to strengthen current defense mechanisms
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What is the goal psychodynamic psychotherapy?
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The goal is to change the patient's personality: interpreting transference, pointing out resistance, and character change. It is much more intense.
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What is the goal of cognitive therpy?
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The goal is to correct faulty ideas.
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What is the goal of existential psychotherapy?
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The goal is to explore feelings of meaninglessness in life and investigate the freedom of individuals
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What is the go-around technique?
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A group technique where all the people in the group answer a question so that everyone can get benefit from the different ideas.
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Acting out
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a behavior used to distract a patient who needs to relieve tension or gratify needs through activity rather than verbalization of uncomfortable feelings in a group
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Abreaction
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a process by which repressed material, particularly a painful experience of conflict is brought back to consciousness and is relived with an appropriate response
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Ventilation
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the expression of suppressed feelings, ideas, or events to other group members to relieve a sense of sin or guilt
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How do inpatient versus outpatient psychotherpy differ?
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- Inpatient: only deals with crisis intervention, return to previous level of unctioing, and preparation for outpatient therapy
- Outpatient: goal is personality change and reconstruction |
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what is the best psychotherpy for borderline?
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both group and individual treatment
- group is good to stabilize mood and avoid countertransference |
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What is the major focus of interpersonal psychotherpy?
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communication analysis
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what are dreams used for?
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provide psychic conflicts, which can be interpreted appropriately and lead to productive change in behavior
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What kind of patient is best for hypnosis? What kind of disorders?
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- patients that are responsive to suggestions
- can be used for anxiety disorder, pain, warts, hiccups - not for psychotic disorders |
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which psychotherapy is not useful for schizophrenics?
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psychoanalysis b/c patients who have difficulty with reality testing don't do well with the introspection and self-examination required in psychoanalysis
- it's overwhelming and might cause more harm than good |
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What is brief psychodynamic therapy?
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identifies a single, focal area of conflict and spends the time of the therapy interpreting transference as they pertain to that single conflict
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sublimation
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channeling of unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable activities
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reciprocal inhibition
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- one response to some situation stimulus is substituted for another response e.g. anxiety for relaxation
- key for systematic desensitization |
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what is biofeedback
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proces of giving a patient information on physiologic variables to alter those variables and ultimately the corresponding behavior
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what is undoing
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a concept by Freud in whic ha patient with OCD performs a compuslive act to prevent or undo the consequence from a feared impulse
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what is operant conditioning
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a response is rewarded or punished each time it occurs so that over time the response increaes or decreases in frequency
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who is the father of modern hypnosis?
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Franz anton Mesmer
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