Lecture 1 Flashcards
(12 cards)
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Treatment goals
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- provide tools and skills (confidence, autonomy) to reach their goals
- not to eliminate the problem, just provide coping skills
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Important things to remember
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- get the client and the therapist’s perspective
- i.e. with spiders, what is the part of the spider that the client finds so fearful to tailor the protocol to the client
3
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Normal vs abnormal fear
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- we have fear to avoid something unpleasant
-it is normal in the sense that alot of people experience it and it can be healthy - ## it is not normal when it interferes with your life
4
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Anxiety as a part of normal development
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- there is a nice visual on the slide
5
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Anxiety disorders
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look at slides she skips through them super fast
6
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What causes anxiety
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- a negative experience with the feared object
- somebody telling you that you should be afraid
- people modelling fearful behaviour
- learning that someone else has had a negative experience
- bullying
- parenting (parental anxiety or depression)
- low SES
- ## prenatal prrorgramming
7
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Anxiety causal mechanisms
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- maladaptive cognitive strategies, classical operant conditioning, negative core beliefs, negative automatic thoughts
8
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Anxiety protective factors
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- effortful control, sensitive parenting styles, secure attachment style, parental recognition of problems, positive friendships etc.
9
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Level 1 - BEST SUPPORT
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- attention training, CBT, CBT and medication, exposure, modelling, education
10
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Approaches that CBT contains
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- modeling
- exposure tasks
- imaginal and/or in vivo treatment
- relaxation
- cognitive strategies
11
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Timing of exposure
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- for children and adolescents we do not yet fully know how to approach it
- also they have parents and parents get afraid of their children doing exposure therapy which is why you start exposure later
- children are still developing so you help them build skills to help them cope with anxiety
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