Therapy Modalities Flashcards

• -individual
• -group
• -family
• -couples

1. communication patterns= attend to verbal and nonverbal
2. cohesiveness= Yalom suggests this is major factor in successful group outcomes
3. social control= the rules of the group that lets it run smoothly
4. norms= rules of bx and standards set by group
5. role expectations= individually and as together as a group
6. status=status outside group may affect bx within the group
7. group culture= arises from beliefs, customs, values of the members. together it can be an agent of change

1. Screens out hostile, egocentric, domineering, or suspicious individuals, and those who possess inadequate ego strength for group dynamics.
2. Allows potential members to get to know the group leader (although a potential member may already be a client in individual therapy).
3. Lets the group leader explain members' rights and the group's goals and format.

1. initial
2. transition
3. working
4. final
5. post group/follow up

1. forming
2. storming
3. norming
4. performing
5. adjourning

Emphasizing feedback, problem solving, and decision making, T-groups aim to improve organizational relationship skills by focusing on the group process.

Typically meeting for a set time, these groups encourage risk taking for personal growth and development.

1. emotionally focused
2. gottman method
3. imago relationship
4. narrative
5. relationship enhancement

• originally developed for couples, but it has proven to be beneficial for families as well.
• approach focuses on emotions, as emotions are often left out of interventions, especially systemic interventions focusing on relationships.
• Typically a short-term approach, emotionally focused therapy has three main goals: 1. It encourages the expansion and reorganization of key emotional responses.2. It seeks to secure a tight bond between each partner.3.The therapy repositions each partner’s stance during interactions and creates new, beneficial interactions in the partnership.

• goal is to assist couples in reaching a deeper level of understanding, awareness, empathy, and intimacy and interpersonal growth
• starts with an assessment: joint interview then individual interviews.
• Then develop therapeutic framework (frequency and duration of sessions)
• therapeutic interventions: help the couple solidify their relationship in three primary areas: friendship, conflict management, and creation of shared meaning

• gottman couples therapy
• a house with 7 levels, surrounded by 2 strong walls that hold everything together
  1. building love maps
  2. share fondness and admiration
  3. turn towards instead of away
  4. postiive perspective
  5. manage conflict
  6. make life dreams come true
  7. crate shared meaning
• the walls
  • trust
  • commitment

• to equip couples with the tools necessary to relate to each other in healthier ways by revealing and understanding the emotional pathways that formed and developed in childhood to make them who they are today and that lead to their current situation.
• combines spiritual and behavioral techniques with western psychological techniques of therapy to help couples expose their unconscious components

• attempts to separate the couple from their problem(s), by externalizing the primary issues and concerns. The therapist has the couple become the “narrators” of their story and asks them to describe their problems in narrative form, referring to the problems as nouns
• the couple is not the problem. The problem is the problem.

• 9 essential skills that the couple is taught and subsequently practices throughout the course of treatment.
• focus on the relationship between the two individuals being counseled instead of the relationship between the therapist and the couple in counseling

1. Roe's model
2. Hollands needs
3. Crites career maturity
4. supers developmental model
5. anticipation/implementation model

• based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• suggests that career choices match the level of needs those choices attempt to satisfy.
• Attitudes, interests, economics, and social conditions may be overcome by personal effort, but the individual must know how and when to make that effort.

RIATEC

• Realistic (accountants, engineers, mechanics)
• Investigative (scientists, programmers)
• Artistic (artists, editors, writers)
• Social (counselors, social workers, teachers)
• Enterprising (managers, politicians)
• Conventional(fire clerks, clerical workers)

• came up with the first test instrument to test vocational maturity then called the Vocational Development Inventory, which he later revised and improved calling it the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) to measure competency and attitude.
• career maturity should include both behavior and developmental tasks

• centers on self-concept and life stages. According to Super, life roles have an impact on career choice.
• Viewing people as both rational and emotional,

• process of anticipating and adjusting to career/occupational choices.
• used Erik Erikson's life stage crises to explain differences in career development.