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Psy 339
EST
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
12/09/2010

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Term
Cultural Consideration For Treatment
Definition

  • parents-different ethnic groups cultures --> parenting values, childrearing, practives
  • cultural sensitivity important
  • attend to symptoms and consider- values, norms, expectations, religious beliefs
  • helps families effectively establish rules, forms of discipline

Term
Cultural Compatibility Hypothese
Definition
treatment is likely to be more effective when compatible with cultural patterns of the child and family
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Research vs. Clinical Patients
Definition

  • severity- community patients tend to be more severe
  • coercion- for children/adolescence clinic patients more coerced than research patients
  • homogeneity vs. heterogeneity- research sample more homogenous and clinic patients more heterogeneity w/age, gender etc.
  • focus- community more focused on specifics
  • site- research usually in lab, on campus etc, but clinician work can really be any where, any size etc.

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Empirically Supported Treatment
Definition

- patient care enhanced by use of up-to-date empirical knowledge

-difficult for practicing clinicians to keep up w/latest research findings

-clinicians need to keep to provide most effective treatment possible

-provide clinicians summaries of latest research to keep them informal

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Attachment Therapy
Definition
  • involves "rebirthing"-comes from a theoretical principle
  • "reborn" to correct attachment
  • child reduced to an infantile state and accepting that child is "helpless: and "hopeless" w/o the mother
  • when exits flannel womb she is able to trust, love, an surrender authority to her hopeful mother waiting near by
  • mother/daughter- could then begin anew the process of attachment
  • hard to do w/kids from abusive families
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Critical Incident Stress Debriefing 
Definition

  • manualized treatment intend to prevent PTSD
  • supposition
  • early intervention prevent
  • 106 victims
  • s disorder onset
  • fairly large industry training providers in CISD developed before empirical work
  • often conducted in groups
  • doesnt help trauma victims & tends to make them main symptoms

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EST vs. Usual Clinical Care
Definition

  • meta-analysis of 32 randomized trials
  • post treatment results
  • follow-up results
  • special considerations-severity minority status
  • Well-established probably efficacious treatments for children

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Defining ESTs
Definition

  • Experimental treatments (last option)
-treatment not yet tested in trails meeting task force criteria for methodology
-may have been tested but not in well designed constructed studies
  • well establishes treatments (highest levels)- not a lot for children
  • probably efficacious treatments (better than wait list control-better than nothing)

Term
Establishing ESTs
Definition
  • most controversial recommendation was dveveloping a list of ESTs
  • Had to develop criteria to meet EST status
Term
Research vs. Clinical Patients
Definition

  • clinician- research are going to be PhD researchers/students- clinic going to be various ppl to provide therapy
  • preparation- clinics tend to have back to back appointment, brief moments to write notes
  • monitoring- no one is actually monitoring the quality of the treatments

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EST Controversies
Definition

  • requirement of treatment manual could degrade practice
  • treatments are not really that specific
  • treatment studies don't reflect practice in community, so why would ESTs be helpful
  • how to disseminate to clinicians

Term
The Consumer Reports Study
Definition

Patients benefited from psychotherapy

-short vs. long term

-psychotherapy alone vs. combined treatment (medicine)

-discipline provider

-role of managed care

Term
Medical Treatments
Definition

visit doctor for medical illness

-provides you w/treatment options

-some tested, some not tested

major issues in psychotherapy

Term
Psychiatric Illness
Definition

-visit doctor for depression

offers unfamiliar treatment

claims to have very high success rate

 

Term
Thought field therapy
Definition
  • actual treatment for wide range of disorders
  • claims at 97 % + success rate
  • "appears" to be sage
  • We should care b/c:
-proliferation of unsupported treatments is a threat to clients
-prolong suffering, drain financial resources and in extreme cases sometimes even place client @risk for more serious outcomes
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Attachment Therapy: Candaces Law
Definition

10 yr old girl wrapped in sheet, placed in fetal position, 4 pillows on top of her

-kids have died from Attachment Therapy

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Efficacy 
Definition

done through rigorously controlled treatment studied criterion

-patient assignment, strong cotnrols

-manualized treatment, outcome, blindness of raters, single vs. comorbid disorders, follow up

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