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Person-centered therapy interventions
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- Congruence (genuineness)
- Empathy
- Unconditional positive regard - Non-directive approach |
Solution-focused brief therapy
interventions
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- Miracle questions
- Scaling questions - Exception seeking questions - Coping questions - Problem free talk |
Existential Therapy
interventions
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- Write their own
eulogy/obituary
- Imagine their own
death
- Focus on the loss of another, milestones or major life events - Self-imposed isolation - Engagement - "Who am I?" exercise |
Some of Freud's
psychoanalytic interventions
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- Dream analysis
- The "talking cure" - Free association - Transference - Pressure technique |
Attachment-based therapy
interventions
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- Circle of Security
- Watch, wait and wonder - Manipulation of sensitive responsiveness - Modified interaction guidance |
MRI Strategic Family
Therapy interventions
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- Reframing
- Outpositioning - Paradoxical interventions - Symptom prescription - Restraining techniques |
Some Jay Haley Strategic
Family Therapy interventions
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- Replicating family
interactions and conversations
- Prompting and engaging participants with provocative questions and discussions - Engineering the situation so that participants come to realize and understand the socially impaired interactions taking place |
Structural Family Therapy
interventions
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- The therapist actually
enters, or "joins", with the family system as a catalyst
for positive change
- Family map/diagram (early
intervention)
- Accommodation (i.e. joining)
- Mimesis
- Subsystem isolation
- Boundary marking
- Creating a workable
reality
- Enactment
- Intervening
isomorphically
- Restructuring
- Unbalancing
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Bowen Family Systems Theory early stage
rapport-building interventions
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- Building personal
connection with each person
- Establishing eye contact - Speaking to each person individually - Acknowledging client's difficulties - Active listening - Showing interest |
Bowenian therapists:
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- Question the family
- Construct a family genogram
- Prohibit open conflict and interrupt
arguments
- Model differentiation and skills
- Works with the pursuer to create a
safe place in the relationship to invite the distancer back
- Help members see the dynamic
occurring
- Encourage cut-off members to return
to the family
- Use “I” statements to model
differentiation
- Remain neutral and detriangled but
build good relationship with each family member
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Adlerian Therapy
techniques
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- Immediacy
- Encouragement - Acting "as if" - Spitting in the client's soup - The question - Homework - Avoiding the tar baby - Therapist/client agreement of goals |
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy cognitive interventions
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- Rational analysis
- Double-standard dispute
- Catastrophe scale
- Devil's advocate
- Reframing
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REBT imagery interventions
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- Time projection
- The “blow up” technique
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REBT behavioral techniques
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- Exposure
- Shame attacking
- Risk-taking
- Paradoxical behavior
- Stepping out of character
- Postponing gratification
- Homework
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Whitaker's symbolic-experiential
approach interventions
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- Intervened directly at
the emotional level of the system
- Relied heavily on “symbolism” and real life experiences - Humor - Play - Affective confrontation - Active and forceful personal involvement and caring |