1
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Thought stopping/refocusing
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- replace intrusive thoughts, rumination, trauma memories
2
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Empty chair
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- work through interpersonal or internal conflict; have imaginal dialogue with someone to get a different perspective and gain insight.
3
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Cognitive restructuring
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- replace cognitive distortions with less stressful thoughts
4
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Thought responding
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- observe the thought and let it go
5
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thought defusion
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Separating from our thoughts to be able to analyze them
6
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paradoxical repetition
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- used for children to avoid power struggles and establish parental control; Tell them to do the negative behavior they would have done, so either they did it with permission or they did the right thing to spite you.
7
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rational emotive behavioral therapy: REBT
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Early form of CBT; posits that it is not our external situations that affect us but our emotional and behavioral reactions to them.
8
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reality therapy
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Focus on the present without bringing in the past; behavior oriented.
9
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schema therapy
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- look at long standing patterns of thoughts/behaviors; treats personality disorders and chronic conditions not well treated in other ways
10
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downward arrow
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- CBT to identify unhelpful core beliefs
11
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behavioral experiment
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- information gathering exercise to test the accuracy of an individual’s beliefs or to test new, more adaptive beliefs
12
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capping
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- therapist technique to de-escalate client emotions in the moment
13
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proxemics
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- studying the client’s body language and movements to determine emotions, thoughts, and feelings.
14
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structuring
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- letting the client know what to expect from the session
15
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Focusing
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- non-verbal demonstration of attention to the client’s words
16
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Adlerian therapy
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- long-term therapy that looks at childhood experiences and family constellations
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