NURS 526 STUDY GUIDE 2023/2024 NEW UPDATE 100% A GRADE

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NURS 526 STUDY GUIDE 2023/2024 NEW UPDATE 100% A GRADE Group Therapy – 21 (Highlight) The primary purpose of group therapy is to facilitate changes by the patient to address identified problems.... Examples: A technique for dealing with an over talkative client and silence from other participants in a group during therapy is to make an observation about the group’s silence and invite the others to comment. During group members sharing methods they personally use for dealing with problems are using the technique of “Information Giver”. Cognitive/Cognitive Behavioral/DBT – 16 (Highlights) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy consists of active questioning, homework assignments, and dream survey. The therapist helps the patient consider personal ideas and beliefs in order to increase the patient's realization about how thoughts influence behaviors. Attachment – 2 (Highlights) Attempts to explain the dynamics of interpersonal relationships between humans. A child needs to form a relationship between at least one primary caregiver. Milieu – 2 (Highlight) Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client’s social, economic, and cultural status. Complementary Alternative Medicine – 9 (Highlight) The major difference between Western medicine and complementary and alternative therapies (CAM) is Western medicine focuses on what is done to the patient whereas CAM focuses on mind-body interactions. Know the following Theorists and basic assumptions: • Beck: a. Beck assumption: Distorted thinking contributes to and maintains behavior (symptoms) b. Beck developed the cognitive model of depression and the concept that cognitive processing distortions underlie psychological disorders ACTIVE, TIME-LIMITED APPROACH c. depression can be understood via schemas: Beck; cognitive errors, and the cognitive triad i. negative views of self ii. tendency toward interpreting experiences in a negative manner iii. holding negative views of the future • Ellis: a. Rational emotive therapy (RET), a form of CBT developed by Albert Ellis, is a psychotherapeutic approach which proposes that unrealistic and irrational beliefs cause many emotional problems. The purpose of RET is to identify an irrational belief and dispute it through active, philosophical, confrontational therapy. b. unrealistic and irrational beliefs cause many emotional problems c. ASSUMPTION: i. People make themselves sick anytime they escalate a desire or preference into a demand or absolute must. (People become who they become based on their beliefs). • RET uses role playing, assertion training, desensitization, humor, operant conditioning, suggestion, support, etc. • STEPS: • Identify the irrational belief • Dispute the irrational belief • Work with illogical thinking patterns and tendencies that distort reality • Teach social problem-solving skills • Teach appropriate rational self-statements • In-vivo behavioral rehearsal and practice. • Krieger: see therapeutic touch • Piaget- a. Stages of cognitive development-human thinking processes change i. Sensoir-motor (0-2): differentiates self from objects. Achieves object permanence (realizes that things continue to exist even when no longer present to thee sense). ii. Pre-operational (2-7y): Learns to use language to represent objects by images & words, difficulty taking viewpoints of others. Classifies objects by single feature (red blocks) iii. Concrete operational (7-11) can think logically about objects and events. Achieves conservation of numbers, classifies objects according to several features and can order them in series along single dimensions such as size & color [Show More]

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