PMHNP Board Exam Non-Pharmacological Treatment, Complete Solutions-Most common issues for individual therapy
1. losses
2. interpersonal conflicts
3. symptomatic presentations such as panic
phobias, and negativity
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PMHNP Board Exam Non-Pharmacological Treatment, Complete Solutions-Most common issues for individual therapy
1. losses
2. interpersonal conflicts
3. symptomatic presentations such as panic
phobias, and negativity
4. Unfulfilled expectations at life transitions
5. Characterological issues such as narcissim
or aggressiveness
Psychoanalytic therapy
1. Originated by Freud
2. believed that behavior is determined by
unconsious motivations and instincual drives .
3. promotes change by the development of
greater insight and awareness of maladaptive
defenses
4. attends to past developmental and
psychodynamic factors which shape present
behaviors.
Cognitive Therapy
1. Originated by Beck
2. Purports that external events do not cause
anxiety or maladaptive responses
3. States that a persons expectations, perceptions,
and interpretations of events cause anxiety
4. allows clients to view relaity more clearly
through an examination of their central distorted
cognitions
5. Goal is to change clients irrational beliefs, faulty
conceptions and negative cognitive disortions
Behavioral Therapy - Originated by Lazarus
Focuses on changing maladaptive behaviors by participating in active behavioral techniques such as exposure, relaxation, problem-solving, and role playing
Dialectical behavioral therapy - Originated by linehan
commonly used with people with borderline personality disorder
focuses on emotional regulation, tolerance for distress, self-management skills, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness, with an emphasis on treating therapy-interfering bheaviours
Goals of dialectical behavioral therapy
Decrease suicidal behaviors
decrease therapy interfering behaviors
decrease emotional reactivity
decrease sel-invalidation
decrease crisis-generalting behaviors
decrease passivity
increase realistic decision making
increase accurate communication of emotions and competencies
Existential therapy - Originated by Fankl
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