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NR 605 / NR605 Final actual Exam | Questions &
verified Answers (Latest Update )
Diagnosis & Management in Psychiatric-Mental
Health Across the Lifespan I Practicum | Grade A |
100% Correct – Chamberlain

Cognitive-behavioral therapy
-focus on how well individuals can adapt cognitively and functionally to their environments
-short-term, structured, goal-oriented form of psychotherapy
-stresses necessity of challenging maladaptive thoughts that lead to behavioral problems
-first emerged in 1955
-most widely practiced psychotherapy
-help clients recognize and address cognitive distortions
• by Albert Ellis, widely known as the grandfather of cognitive behavior therapy
-Beck
• originally trained in psychoanalysis, pioneered cognitive therapy in the 1960s, through his
research on depression
• also developed the popular Depression Inventory instrument


CBT Relationship to Nursing Theory
-Orem's self-care deficit nursing theory
• provides a framework to view CBT as a supportive intervention
• fosters effective self-care behaviors

-Roy's Adaptation Theory
• premise that individuals use coping mechanisms to adapt to stimuli, both internal and external
• share underpinnings with CBT.


Indications for CBT
-treatment of a wide range of diagnoses
• depression
• anxiety disorders
• substance use disorders
• eating disorders
• severe mental illness
• PTSD


Principles of CBT include:
-way an ind cognitively structures thoughts about self & the world determines how the ind feels
& behaves
-Dysfunctional thoughts are rooted in irrational assumptions
-Dysfunctional thinking and learned patterns of maladaptive behavior contribute to psychological
problems

,-Ind's can learn more adaptive behaviors which can relieve symptoms & improve quality of life
-CBT is (+) & stresses collaboration & active participation
-CBT includes action plans in the form of therapy homework


Role of the Psychotherapist in CBT
-using a structured, collaborative approach to help clients recognize and reevaluate cognitive
distortions
-help clients:
• better understand the behaviors of others
• develop improved coping skills
-Psychoeducation
-Homework
• to help clients reinforce & build on what was learned during the therapy session


motivational interviewing (MI)
-helps individuals prepare for change
-person-centered, evidence-based approach to behavior change
-using a collaborative, goal-oriented communication style
-empowers clients to draw on their meanings & capacities to facilitate change
• addressing issues with ambivalence and resistance
-grew out of William R. Miller's clinical practice working with clients with substance use
disorders in the 1980s
• collaborated with Stephen Rollnick to write book: Motivational interviewing


Indications for MI
-reduction of substance use and health promotion
-improving medication adherence in clients with schizophrenia


MI Guiding Principles
-acceptance
-empathy
-compassion
-respect of client autonomy
-acknowledgment of the client's strengths & efforts
-Spirit of MI
• Partnership, compassion, acceptance, evocation


MI Role of the Psychotherapist
represented by the mnemonic RULE:

Resist the righting reflex
Understand the patient's motivation
Listen to the patient
Empower the patient


OARS
Communication skills for MI:
-Open questions

,• cannot be answered with a yes or no, require elaboration

-Affirming
• provide encouragement, are (+) comments on a client's strengths or efforts

-Reflecting
• mirror the content or feelings explicitly or implicitly stated by the client
• convey empathy, demonstrate listening, highlight emotions & beliefs, • provide opportunities
for the client to elaborate on their concerns
• empower clients to take control of the conversation
• recommended to use at least two reflections for every question

-Summarizing
• links together what has been stated to help the client organize their experiences


MI Phases of the Change Process
-engagement
• establishment of trust & a helping relationship between the therapist & client
• uses reflections that communicate understanding

-focusing
• identification of the direction or target of the change
• uses open-ended questions


-evoking
• identifying the client's motivation for change and evoking hope
• uses reflections and summaries

-planning
• creating a plan for change


acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
-helps individuals accept life's challenges while focusing on their values and goals
• learning how to relate to thoughts & feelings which impact life rather than changing those
thoughts & feelings
-referred to as a "third wave" CBT therapy
-Accepting reactions and being present
-Choosing a valued direction
-Taking action
-Used for:
• depression, anxiety, substance use, chronic pain, transdiagnostic combinations of conditions


solution-focused therapy (SFT)
-future-oriented approach
-helps client ID problems & construct solutions that will result in change
-postmodern thinking
• reality is shaped by multiple and conflicting "truths" & constructed through human interaction
• there are as many stories of meaning as there are people involved
-fourth force of psychotherapy
• transpersonal, going beyond the ideas of humanness, identity, and self-actualization

, -client is considered to be the expert of their lives
-focus from the problem to the solution
-grew out of the work at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee in the 1970s
• influenced by many psychotherapists, work at the Mental Research Institute in California, and
the philosophies of Buddhism and Taoism


solution-focused therapy Key Concepts and the Role of the Psychotherapist
-Solutions talk
• Shift talk from problems to solutions

-Positive orientation
• Shift focus from problems to new possibilities

-Looking for what is working
• Focus on the exceptions within problem patterns


Indications for SFT
-used for individual or group therapy across settings
• marriage, family, and child therapies
• trauma
• postpartum depression
• depression
• eating disorders
• severe mental illness


how SFT is used to alleviate anxiety
4-Step Approach for Overcoming Anxiety

-Identify the meaningful parts of life that the anxiety is blocking.

-Shift the focus away from the anxiety itself toward the meaningful goal.

-Create a list of positive messages that would motivate you toward that goal.

-Be gentle with yourself - you're not alone. Many of the people you meet may be working
through something similar.


Behavioral theory
-Personality is a result of the interaction between an ind. and their environment.
-focus on observable and measurable behavior
-Skinner
• associated with the concept of operant conditioning, using rewards and punishments to increase
or decrease a behavior
-Pavlov
• Russian Physiologist, father of behaviorism, associated with classical conditioning, Pavlov dog,


Cognitive theory
-Study of mental processes and complex behaviors
-Albert Bandura combines concepts of observing, thinking, and behaving.

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