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Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - ✔✔1. Any techniques that decrease distractions
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(notes, reminders).
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2. Any techniques that increase directions (breaking tasks down to smaller parts).
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3. Time management techniques (schedules).
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4. Stress management & relaxation.
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Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders - ✔✔1. Multifaceted approach (including
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mediation, hospitalization, and outpatient counseling).
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2. Behavior-based therapy.
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Bipolar Disorders - ✔✔1. Cognitive-behavioral therapy.
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2. Psycho-educational and stress management.
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3. Charting the precipitants, nature, duration, frequency, and seasonality of dysfunctional moods
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to avoid future episodes.
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Depressive Disorders - ✔✔1. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (increasing the frequency & quality
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of pleasurable activities).
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2. Cognitive therapy to confront distorted thinking (overgeneralizations, perfectionistic thinking
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& tendency to catastrophize).
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Anxiety Disorders - ✔✔1. Behavioral interventions including: relaxation (progressive muscle
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relaxation & guided imagery), meditation, biofeedback and exposure (for phobias).
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2. Cognitive interventions including: cognitive restructuring, cognitive-behavioral therapy and
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panic education.
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, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders - ✔✔1. Behavioral interventions including: || || || || || || || || ||
relaxation (progressive muscle relaxation & guided imagery), meditation, biofeedback and
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exposure. 2. Cognitive restructuring, cognitive-behavioral therapy.
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Adjustment Disorders & V codes - ✔✔1. Crisis interventions. || || || || || || || ||
2. Brief psychodynamic psychotherapy.
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3. Stress management.
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4. Other short-term active approaches.
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PTSD & Acute Stress - ✔✔1. Prolonged Exposure Therapy (behavioral intervention associated
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with exposure-including trauma memory).
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2. Cognitive Processing Therapy (elements of exposure therapy, anxiety management and
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cognitive restructuring). || ||
3. Anxiety management training.
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4. EMDR.
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5. Stress inoculation training (muscle relaxation, thought stopping, breath control, guided self-
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dialog, covert modeling & role-playing).
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6. Expressive therapies.
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Dissociative Disorders - ✔✔1. Develop strong therapeutic alliance allowing for the discussion of
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the trauma.
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2. Repair damage and restore social connections. 3. Hypnosis.
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4. Expressive therapy.
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5. EMDR.
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Somatic Symptoms and Related Disorders - ✔✔1. Hospital-based teach approach including
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holistic behavioral, cognitive and affective focus for treatment.
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2. Teach relaxation techniques and coping skills.
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