Therapy approaches Flashcards
(7 cards)
Brief psychodynamic therapy
it is assumed that the problem client brings to therapy Is triggered off by something currently happening in his or her life. The client is seen as a person who is having difficulties coping with a specific situation, rather than as a fundamentally sick individual. The therapist’s role should be active and purposeful, engaging the client in therapeutic alliance in which they can work together. The transference relationship is therefor of necessity quite different than the role of therapist takes a passive role acting as a blank screen.
Cognitive distortion model
Over-generalization: drawing general or all-encompassing conclusions from very limited evidence
Dichotomous thinking: the tendency to see situations in terms of polar opposites.
Personalization: person has a tendency to imagine that events are always attributable to his actions (usually his shortcomings), even when no logical connection can be made.
Core assumptions in constructivism:
- The person is regarded as an active knower, as purposefully engaged in making sense of his or her world.
- Language functions as the primary means through which the person constructs an understanding of the world. Constructivist therapists are therefore particularly interested in linguistic products such as stories and metaphors, which are seen as ways of structuring experience.
- There is a developmental dimension to the person’s capacity to construct their world.
Constructivism
an approach that has been developed through cognitive-behavioral approach. Famous constructivist therapists are Mahoney and Meichenbaum
Personal construct psychology (Kelly)
People make sense of or construe the world through systems of personal constructs. By labeling a person friendly or unfriendly it enables the person to differentiate between people. This construct will function to channel the person’s behavior. He will behave differently towards the people with different construct. The friendly-unfriendly construct would be subsumed under a core construct such as reliable-unreliable. Each construct has its own range of convenience: friendly-unfriendly can be used to construe people but not food.
Repertory grid technique (Kelly)
A useful way of capturing concept knowledge and tacit knowledge and requires special software. Such techniques concerns eliciting attributes for a set of concepts, rating concepts against attributes using a numerical scale and use statistical analysis to arrange and group similar concepts and attributes.
Fixed Role Therapy
Clients are asked to describe themselves as they are. The counselor and the client then create an alternative role description based on a different set of constructs. The client is encouraged to act out this role for set periods of time.
