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21 Cards in this Set
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Psychotherapy course |
Once I discovered the core problem, such as son getting killed in a car accident... I could have delved deeper into that by asking "Tell me how the relationship was between you and your son" |
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Mentalization |
Process of thinking and feeling about oneself and others |
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Mindfulness |
Similar to mentalization in that it is the process of thinking and feeling about oneself |
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Mindfulness-based therapy |
Beneficial for a wide range of psychological problems, including Borderline Personality Disorder, anxiety, chronic pain, depression, and stress... Also useful in cancer, multiple sclerosis and to increase general well-being
Patients begin to tolerate anxiety and depression better, recognize these states are transitory, which helps them deal w conflict with greater confidence |
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Mindfulness-based approaches |
Decreasing "experiential avoidance" or unwillingness to experience negative feelings, thoughts, and sensations |
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Relaxation Training |
Physiologic effects opposite those of anxiety, including slow heart rate, increased physiological blood flow, and neuromuscular stability |
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Hierarchy construction |
Clinicians determine all stuff that increases anxiety, and ranks it from greatest to least |
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Desensitization of the stimulus |
While in deeply-relaxed state, proceed from least to most anxiety-provoking response |
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Therapeutic-graded exposure |
Similar to systematic desensitization except graded exposure involves bringing in the actual stimulus that provokes anxiety |
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Flooding (implosion) |
Similar to therapeutic graded exposure in that one exposes patient to real-life situation (in vivo) except no hierarchy is formed |
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Assertiveness Training |
Enables a person to act in his or her own best interest, to stand up for themselves without undue anxiety, to express honest feelings comfortably, and to exercise personal rights without denying the rights of others |
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Situations that call for assertiveness principles |
1) setting limits on pushy friends or relatives 2) commercial situations such as sales or returning a defective merchandise |
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Situations that call for assertiveness principles |
1) setting limits on pushy friends or relatives 2) commercial situations such as sales or returning a defective merchandise |
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Social Skills Training |
Assertiveness: making requests, refusing requests, making complaints, responding to complaints, expressing unpleasant feelings, asking for info, making apologies, expressing fear, and refusing alcohol and street drugs
Conflict management: skills in negotiating, compromising, tactful disagreeing, responding to untrue accusations, and leaving overly stressful situations |
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Situations that call for assertiveness principles |
1) setting limits on pushy friends or relatives 2) commercial situations such as sales or returning a defective merchandise |
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Social Skills Training |
Assertiveness: making requests, refusing requests, making complaints, responding to complaints, expressing unpleasant feelings, asking for info, making apologies, expressing fear, and refusing alcohol and street drugs
Conflict management: skills in negotiating, compromising, tactful disagreeing, responding to untrue accusations, and leaving overly stressful situations |
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Aversion Therapy |
Punishing a behavioral response by providing a painful stimulus, to inhibit and extinguish the response |
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Re-Processing |
Saccadic eye movements - oscillation of eyes back and forth over a fixed line of vision
Doing this while imagining or thinking an anxiety-provoking event can yield a positive thought or image that results in decreased anxiety |
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Masochists |
are like people with depression except masochists blame others for their fate |
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Emotional Distress |
the most common cause of chronic pain |
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My personal distress empathy |
may be essential in treating others with emotional distress, and helping to cope with the stress of colleagues/coworkers |
