NCMHCE exam - Types of Therapy with real questions and answers.

NCMHCE exam - Types of Therapy with real questions and answers. Rational Behavior Therapy (RBT) - correct ned to be a short term therapy which is based on the belief of discovering an unsuspected problem which creates unwanted mental, emotional and physical behaviors. Behavior Modification - correct answers.** Behavior change techniques to increase or decrease the frequency of behaviors, such as altering an individual's behaviors and reactions to stimuli through positive and negative reinforcement of adaptive behavior and/or the reduction of behavior through its extinction, punishment and/or satiation. **It is similar to operrant conditioning but does not search for the antecedent. **Behavior modification is now known as Applied behavior analysis (ABA) which is more analytical than it used to be. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - correct answers.**a psychotherapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions, maladaptive behaviors and cognitive processes and contents through a number of goal-oriented, explicit systematic procedures. **has been demonstrated to be effective for the treatment of a variety of conditions, including mood, anxiety, personality, eating, substance abuse, tic, and psychotic disorders. Rational Emotive Therapy (RET)#1 - correct answers.#1++Philosophy claims that people to a large degree consciously and unconsciously construct emotional difficulties such as self-blame, self-pity, clinical anger, hurt, guilt, shame, depression and anxiety, and behaviors and behavior tendencies like procrastination, over-compulsiveness, avoidance, addiction and withdrawal by the means of their irrational and self-defeating thinking, emoting and behaving. ++This therapy is then applied as an educational process in which the therapist often active-directively teaches the client how to identify irrational and self-defeating beliefs and philosophies which in nature are rigid, extreme, unrealistic, illogical and absolutist, and then to forcefully and actively question and dispute them and replace them with more rational and self-helping ones. ++ Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) #2 - correct answers.#2++Good for Individual-, group- and family therapy ++Effective for problems including relationships, social skills, career changes, stress management, assertiveness training, grief, problems with aging, money, weight control etc. Adlerian Psychotherapy#1 - correct answers.#1**Theory and practice have proven especially productive as applied to the growth and development of children. **This therapy believes that "a misbehaving child is a discouraged child" and that helping children to feel valued, significant, and competent is often the most effective strategy in coping with difficult child behaviors. ++High need to feel a sense of belonging ++ Role of therapist is to faciliate expressing and accepting encouragement, respect, and social interest that help us feel fulfilled and optimistic ++Through the analysis of birth order, repeated coping patterns, and earliest memories, the psychotherapist infers the goal as a working hypothesis. Adlerian Therapy #2 - correct answers.#2-- individual psychotherapy, brief therapy, couple therapy, and family therapy follow parallel paths. __Clients are encouraged to overcome their feelings of insecurity, develop deeper feelings of connectedness, and to redirect their striving for significance into more socially beneficial directions. --Through a respectful Socratic dialogue, they are challenged to correct mistaken assumptions, attitudes, behaviors, and feelings about themselves and the world. Constant encouragement stimulates clients to attempt what was believed impossible. --The growth of confidence, pride, and gratification leads to a greater desire and ability to cooperate. --The objective of therapy is to replace exaggerated self-protection, self-enhancement, and self-indulgence with courageous social contribution. Existential Psychotherapy - correct answers.++For high functioning clients ++A goal of changing meaning ++Life review, discussion of beliefs, development of spirituality Gestalt Counseling - correct answers.**emphasizes self responsibility and choice **Present focused in I-Thou relationship **Influenced by existentialism and zen Buddhism ++Helps to resolve projections and unfinished business +for adults and teens who are being treated for substance abuse, addiction, behavior disorders, mood disorders, eating disorders, grief/loss, trauma, sex addiction, compulsive gambling, bipolar, depression and related conditions