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