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Humanistic existential approach to psychotherapy - ANSWER=foundational to psychiatric mental
health, nursing
Central tenants of holism
Self actualization
Therapeutic alliance
Special Considerations in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents - ANSWER=-Setting
-Establishing a Therapeutic Relationship
-Common Approaches to Tx
Therapy Setting - ANSWER=-appropriate for client level of development
-Toys provide a vehicle for young clients to explore/act out their concerns through play
• Observing/interacting through play with children may provide valuable assessment info
-Adolescents may prefer:
• to draw
• play with a fidget while talking
Children and Adolescents: Establishing a Therapeutic Relationship - ANSWER=-Play therapy may
be the therapist's primary communication modality and may help build a trusting relationship
• helps process emotions and feelings
• use toys to express themselves
• dolls, animals, art supplies
-safe play
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Play therapy can address: - ANSWER=-Depression
-ADHD
-Impulsiveness
-Conduct disorder, like bullying
-Aggression
-Anxiety/fearfulness
-Low self-esteem
-Social withdrawal
-Reading difficulties & other school problems
Children and Adolescents: Common Approaches to Tx - ANSWER=-Psychodynamic
-Motivational Interviewing
-Parent Training
-Problem-Solving Skills Training
-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
-Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
-Group Therapy
Children and Adolescents: Psychodynamic - ANSWER=-primary modality in the treatment of
younger children & complex cases
-Psychodynamic techniques
• allow pt to express emotions and experiences nonverbally through activities such as:
‣ free play
‣ dolls
‣ expressive art supplies
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‣ sand trays
‣ movement
Children and Adolescents: Motivational Interviewing - ANSWER=-often used as a brief
intervention for adolescents at risk for SUD
-Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA, 2021) endorses the use
of the SBIRT
• Screening
• Brief Intervention
• Referral
• Treatment
‣ model to ensure that adolescents are screened for risk of substance use
‣ 1-4 session intervention used to increase the adolescent's motivation to decrease substance
use
Supportive psychotherapy is used to have clients - ANSWER=Who are experiencing emotional
distress or problems in living
Supportive psychotherapy is appropriate for clients experiencing - ANSWER=Stressful situations,
including clients with psychotic personality organization. Those were the preoccupied or overly
emotional attachment style and those with immature defenses.
The goals of supportive therapy include - ANSWER=Problem solving
Management of feelings and life stressors
Symptom relief
Sessions are less frequent lemon, psychoanalysis
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Supportive therapy is used for - ANSWER=Stabilization
Resource building
Anxiety reduction
Problem solving
Techniques used supportive therapy include - ANSWER=PEER
Providing comfort
Empathetic, listening
Encouragement
Reassurance
SUPPORTIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CLIENT EXPRESSED
THEMSELVES AN accepting ENVIRONMENT
Psycho analysis is commonly used for which type of patients - ANSWER=Patience with anxiety
OCD
Depressive disorders
Personality disorders
Sexual dysfunction may be helpful for clients whose personality traits are interfering in their
relationships
Goals of psychoanalysis include - ANSWER=Development of deeper understanding of self, and
desire to create change
Clients who are likely to benefit from psycho analysis include - ANSWER=Reality oriented clients
with mature defenses, and a strong sense of self and clients with neurotic to healthy personality
organization