Mental health articles
OF mental health care and mentally ill
February, 2014
Attentional manipulation of generalized anxiety disorder
From an information-processing perspective, the process of selective attention to threat cues, or attentional bias, is present in a number of anxiety disorders, although what is attended to and the perspective taken may differ among disorders. Attentional manipulation aims to redirect attention away from the self and onto external sources. From Mental health articles, post […]
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Imagery modification of generalized anxiety disorder
Given that automatic thoughts can occur in image form as well as verbal, it is useful to assess the presence of past or future images relevant to anxiety. Where images form a significant part of cognitive content, asking clients to change or modify the content of the image may be associated with a change in […]
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Verbal discussion techniques of generalized anxiety disorder
Verbal discussion techniques of generalized anxiety disorder Verbal techniques are central to the practice of cognitive therapy and involve questioning, Socratic dialogue and guided discovery. Socratic dialogue (or Socratic questioning) is a method of questioning derived from Plato’s accounts of the Greek philosopher Socrates’ style of discussion when helping people understand philosophical points. Guided discovery […]
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Education of generalized anxiety disorder
Education involves explaining the cognitive model of anxiety to the client, using the client’s own material and experience where possible. This process of socialization aids collaboration and begins to demonstrate the collaborative nature of therapy. At other times education may be quite didactic, particularly in relation to the treatment components. Reading materials, such as pamphlets […]
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Practice of therapy of generalized anxiety disorder
In a review, Clark has identified the active ingredients of cognitive therapy for anxiety disorders as: education, verbal discussion techniques, imagery modification, attentional manipulation, exposure to feared stimuli, manipulation of safety behaviours and other behavioural experiments. These therapeutic activities are directly used to address distorted thoughts and beliefs. For more detailed descriptions of the principles […]
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How to conduct exposure therapy
How to conduct exposure therapy Prior to conducting an exposure programme it is important that the client understands what is involved and the reasons for treatment. At this stage it is often useful to use examples from the client’s own life experience to illustrate the principle that ‘the more you do something the easier it […]
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principles of conducting exposure-based therapy
principles of conducting exposure-based therapy Implementing exposure Marks summarized the key principles of conducting exposure-based therapy as: live exposure is preferable to ‘fantasy exposure’, although the latter could be used ‘when the real stimuli evoking fear are not readily accessible for live exposure’. Self-exposure (or self-directed exposure) is, generally, of equivalent value to therapist-aided exposure; […]
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Exposure-based treatments of generalized anxiety disorder
Exposure-based treatments of generalized anxiety disorder Purpose of exposure The purpose of exposure-based treatments is to produce a reduction or removal of the anxiety response in the presence of the formerly anxiety evoking stimulus, situation or thought. As such, the goal of therapy is to produce habituation of the anxiety response. Habituation is a general […]
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Treatment efficacy: panic disorder
Treatment efficacy: panic disorder Unfortunately, neither The NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination nor the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews databases have examined panic disorder whether it is with or without agoraphobia. However, the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination has published a review of the efficacy and cognitive processes of cognitive behaviour therapy in […]
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Therapeutic communities of psychopathy
Therapeutic communities were first developed under the leadership of Maxwell Jones in the UK in the late 1940s. These provided an intensive 24-hour-a-day intervention to change psychopathic behaviour. Those within them were made responsible for the physical and emotional care of others within the community. The group itself established acceptable and unacceptable behaviours. Members were […]
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