| Introduction |
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| Introduction to Psychotherapy |
| Karpman's Drama Triangle |
| Theories of Development and Stages of Development |
| Variable-term |
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| Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) |
| Focuses on acceptance and change, emotional regulation, mindfulness, and distress tolerance. Indicated in: borderline personality and self-harm behaviours. |
| Family Therapy |
| Multi-person therapy for when symptoms are exacerbated by interpersonal interactions within the family. Indicated in: disruptive behaviour in children, eating disorders, and schizophrenia. |
| Group Therapy |
| One or more therapists work with several individuals simultaneously in a group setting, working through both the process and content of the group. |
| Motivational Interviewing (MI) |
| Addresses ambivalence to change using a non-judgmental stance, enhances motivation to change, and acknowledges resistance. Indicated in: substance use disorders. |
| Supportive Psychotherapy |
| The therapist is the guide, listens, understands, and reinforces coping skills and adaptive defense mechanisms. Indicated in: lower cognitive function, crisis, schizophrenia |
| Short-term |
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| Brief (Short-term) Psychodynamic Psychotherapy |
| Brief (short-term) psychodynamic psychotherapy is a time-limited psychotherapy that focuses on troubling feelings or thoughts that interfere with relationships, communication, and/or functioning. |
| Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) |
| Identifies and replace thoughts and behaviors that cause or worsen insomnia with habits that promote improved sleep. |
| Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) |
| Challenges maladaptive thinking patterns and changes emotions/behaviour coming from those thoughts. Indicated in: depression, anxiety, and psychosis. |
| Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) |
| Challenges and changes unhelpful beliefs related to trauma to create a new conceptualization of traumatic events. Indicated in: PTSD. |
| Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) |
| Uses familial, recreational, occupational, and social events to support a change in substance use behaviours. |
| Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) |
| Focuses on relationship conflicts, life-role transitions, and grief. Indicated in: depression. |
| Long-term |
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| Psychodynamic Psychotherapy |
| Explores unconscious conflicts that cause symptoms and explores past relationships, transference, and defense mechanisms. |
| Other |
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| Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| Uses commitment and behaviour change strategies to increase psychological flexibility. |
| Biofeedback |
| A treatment modality where patients use signals from the body (e.g. - heart rate, muscle tension, skin temperature, blood pressure) as a guide. |
| Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) |
| Involves the use of a patient's own rhythmic, rapid eye movements. |
| Mindfulness-Based Therapy |
| Focusing on and noticing the present as it is using breathing and relaxation techniques. |
| Trauma-Informed Care |
| An approach to therapy that takes into account the impacts of trauma in all aspects of a patient's care. |