Lecture 12: Intervention Overview

What is an Intervention?

Method of producing changes in behavior, thoughts or feelings in context of professional relationship

Which approach to intervention assumes that clinical problems are caused and maintained by interpersonal difficulties, which have a strong impact on mood?

Interpersonal Therapy

Which approach to intervention assumes that cognitions mediate the effect of environmental events on behaviors and emotions?

Cognitive Therapy

Which approach to intervention assumes that unconscious motives, conflits, and memories (especially from childhood) cause psychopathology?

Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy

Which approach to intervention assumes that problem behaviors are learned and can be modified through application of learning principles?

Behavior Therapy

Which approach to intervention typically focuses on early childhood?

Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy

Which approach to intervention aims to modify maladaptive behavioral and cognitive patterns?

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Which approach to intervention aims to resolve interpersonal problems in the present?

Interpersonal Therapy

Which approach to intervention aims to make the unconscious conscious?

Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy

Which approach to intervention focuses in part on identifying defense mechanisms that protect a person from the painful contents of the unconscious?

Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy

What is Behavioral Activation?

Scheduling activities to counteract relative inactivity, increasing rates of previously pleasurable and meaningful activities even when feel lousy

What are the four areas/themes into which social functioninng problems are conceptualized as falling within Interpersonal Therapy?

Grief, Role Disputes, Role Transitions, Interpersonal Deficits

What is at least one approach to relaxation training?

breathing retraining, progressive muscle relaxation, or mindfulness techniques

What is transference?

When central unconscious conflicts play out in relationship with a therapist

What is exposure therapy?

Gradual exposure to feared or avoided stimuli/situations/experiences

what is relapse prevention?

Methods of dealing with recurrence of clinical symptoms

What is problem solving?

Define problem, generate solutions, select best solution, implement/evaluate solution

What is social skills training?

Rehearsal of increasingly complex behavioral skills, assertiveness training, etc

What is contingency management?

Implementation of system of reinforcements and punishments to decrease undesirable behaviors and increase desirable behaviors

What are the three cognitive techniques involved in challenging and replacing irrational cognitions in Cognitive Therapy?

Examining the accuracy of probability estimates, decatastrophizing, and developing adaptive cognitive responses