Mental health
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Psycho-education
Includes strategies to promote and develop a helpful understanding of
the mental health problem.
Behaviour modification
Is used (especially in children) to decrease problematic or
dysfunctional behaviour (usually excesses) or to increase or learn
desirable or functional behaviour.
Exposure techniques
Are particularly used to deal with anxiety and phobias. Exposure
techniques include graded exposure to the feared object or situation,
and sometimes, systematic desensitisation.
Activity scheduling
Used to assist with depression, activity scheduling involves time
management and scheduling in advance, daily pleasant events, as well as
activities in which involve a sense of mastery and satisfaction.
Cognitive analysis, challenging and restructuring
Involves identifying the dysfunctional thoughts which lead to unwanted
emotions and problematic behaviour.
Self-instructional training
Involves replacing dysfunctional thoughts by self-talk which is
functional and guides the person towards adaptive responses to
situations they find difficult.
Attention regulation and control
Patients with distorted cognitive processing often attend specifically
to negative aspects of themselves, others and their environment and not
to neutral or positive aspects.
Relaxation techniques
There are a number of relaxation techniques, including guided mastery,
controlled breathing, deep muscle and isometric relaxation.
Skills training: Problem-solving skills training
Involves a structured series of steps.
Skills training: Anger management
Involves the addition of specific techniques to the basic steps of
problem-solving, to identify when anger is building, and ways of dealing
with it.
Skills training: Stress management
Firstly involves identifying the stressful situation or event, and
establishing whether it can be altered or has to be lived with.
Skills training: Communication skills training
Involves both verbal and non-verbal skills.
Skills training: social skills training
Involves the addition of further elements to communication
training.
Skills training: parent management training
Involves teaching parents appropriate skills to raise their
children.
Motivational interviewing
A useful technique to use with people who are initially ambivalent or
reluctant to engage in CBT.
Interpersonal therapy
Based on the theory that interpersonal relationships play a
significant role in both causing and maintaining depression.