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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT NCMHCE TREATMENTS
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Question 1: Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
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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.
Question 2: Social Skills Training
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Improving communication and social interactions. Includes behaviorally based instruction, modeling, corrective feedback, and contingent social reinforcement.
Question 3: Empty Chair
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Brings client to present/immediate experiences; experience different aspects of own conflicts through empty-chair dialogue (bereavement-express conflicting emotions related to the loss)
Question 4: Lifestyle Assessment
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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
Question 5: Person-Centered Therapy
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Non-direction (client leads) and unconditional positive regard. Increases self-esteem (Conduct disorder)
Question 6: Multimodal Behavior Therapy (Lazarus)
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Subset of CBT; individualized based on needs; BASIC ID (Behavior, Affect, Sensation, Imagery, Cognition, Interpersonal relationships, Drugs/Biology)
Question 7: Individual Grief Therapy
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Differs from "grief counseling" since addresses abnormal or complicated grief (prolonged, somatic/behavioral symptoms, exaggerated grief response)
Question 8: Script analysis
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Used to identify early parental injuctions; life plan evolves from early family transactions (life plan or script) which can be changed.
Question 9: Mood graph
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Tracking mood on a graph aids in determining the client's level of depression, as well as progress being made in coping, etc.
Question 10: Prodrome Detection
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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
Question 11: Bibliotherapy
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Expressive therapy that uses relationship to the content of books/written words; depression
Question 12: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
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PTSD; rapid eye movements associated with distressing or traumatic thoughts. Move eyes to "reprocess" memories and relieve distress.
Question 13: Aversion Therapy
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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
Question 14: H.W. Assignments
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This serves as a measure of compliance and motivation. Approaches may include 1) journaling, 2) bibliotherapy (reading assignments), 3) memorialization.
Question 15: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
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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.
Question 16: Reality Therapy (RT)
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- 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
Question 17: Family Mapping
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Useful for evaluating the interpersonal relationships within the family
Question 18: CBT, Cognitive Restructuring
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Reduces impact of negative thinking; useful for bereavement, anxiety, eating disorders, understanding illness, behavior change (med compliance)
Question 19: Prolonged Exposure Therapy
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Most highly effective treatment for PTSD. Uses systematic desensitization and imagine flooding.
Question 20: Sensate Focusing
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Sexual exercises for couples or individuals
Question 21: In Vivo Exposure
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Gradual exposure to feared and avoided situations or activities can help GAD clients reduce anxiety associated with external stimuli
Question 22: Relaxation Training
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Helps manage stress, anxiety
Question 23: Multisystemic Therapy (MST)
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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)
Question 24: Free association
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Make unconscious conflicts conscious--not helpful if conflicts already known
Question 25: Mirror Exposure
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deliberate, planned, systematic exposure to body image (anorexia)