lecture 15 - psychological treatment

Question 1

What are the 2 key treatment options for mental disorder?

Answer 1

pharmacotherapy (medication), psychotherapy (psychological treatment)

Question 2

What are the 2 main features of psychotherapy?

Answer 2

1.) relationship between a trained health professional and person requiring assistance with psychological distress and/or functional impairment.
2.) planned systematic application of specific psychological principles

Question 3

What types of disorders are commonly treated with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)?

Answer 3

anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, alcohol/drug disorders, eating disorders

Question 4

What is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)?

Answer 4

Short-term psychological treatment for mental disorders that focuses on the links between people’s thoughts, emotions and behaviour, and the way in which those links give rise to, or maintain the disorder

Question 5

What are the 3 linked foundations of the Cognitive Behavioural Model that underpin CBT?

Answer 5

Thought, emotion, behaviour

Question 6

What are the characteristics of CBT?

Answer 6

time-limited, structured, assessment & formulation, targeted areas, aiming to break cycles of thought/action

Question 7

What is exposure therapy?

Answer 7

Directly targeting an avoidance that maintains a fear, in the aim of creating habituation, where anxiety naturally reduces overtime in a stress-full situation.

Question 8

What is graded exposure therapy?

Answer 8

Using specific steps and the creation of a exposure hierarchy to slowly build up to feared activities. Ratings of the degree of anxiety are often used. Targets the cognitive and behavioural parts of CBT

Question 9

What is response prevention in CBT?

Answer 9

Exposure to a feared situation while preventing the individual from engaging in their usual safety behviours.

Question 10

What are behavioural experiments in CBT?

Answer 10

Experiments that test an individual’s irrational beliefs or predictions in reality. Can be an active or observational experiment.

Question 11

What is “Evidence For, Evidence Against” in CBT?

Answer 11

Process of identifying unhelpful beliefs and weighing up the rational evidence for and against this belief to arrive at more balanced thinking.

Question 12

What are the 4 core techniques of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?

Answer 12

1.) graded exposure
2.) response prevention
3.) behavioural experiments
4.) evidence for/evidence against