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Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Interpersonal Psychotherapy. Introduction and Overview. A need for conceptual framework. Conceptual frameworks help recognize relational patterns and cognitive schemas Treatment plans will be developed from the conceptual frameworks. Historical context. Interpersonal Domain (Sullivan)

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Interpersonal Psychotherapy

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  1. Interpersonal Psychotherapy Introduction and Overview

  2. A need for conceptual framework • Conceptual frameworks help recognize relational patterns and cognitive schemas • Treatment plans will be developed from the conceptual frameworks

  3. Historical context • Interpersonal Domain (Sullivan) • Sullivan keep away from Freud’s drive theory (sexual and aggressive instincts) • Personality develops through repetitive interactions with parents and others • personality as the collection of interpersonal strategies to avoid anxiety and disapproval, and maintain self-esteem.

  4. Historical context • Cognitive Domain • Internal working model (Object Relations and Attachment theory) • View of self and others • Emotional responsiveness and availability • Good parents vs. bad parents • Schemas (Cognitive Behavioral therapy) • Can be called maladaptive cognitive schemas, core beliefs, or faulty expectations • Schemas: A cognitive structure for screening, coding, and evaluating the stimuli.

  5. Historical context • The familial/contextual domain • Family system theory • Internalize family roles (i.e., rescuer) as self-schemas • Re-create family roles/patterns with others • Faulty communication patterns • Family rules • Family myths

  6. Core Concepts • 1. The Process Dimension • The relationship b/w therapist and client is the foundation of therapy • Understanding and intervening with what is going on b/w therapist and client in their interaction. • Content vs. Process comments • A powerful tool for genuine understanding and honest communication.

  7. Core Concepts • 2. Corrective Emotional experience • Identify maladaptive cognitive & interpersonal patterns • Use “process comments” to clarify interpersonal styles • Engage the client in work together to find a way to change • Transfer the learning in therapy to others in clients’ lives.

  8. Core Concepts • 3. Client Response Specificity • Definition: therapists need to tailor their response to fit the specific needs of each client. • Flexible to modify interventions and respond in new ways • Match the needs for diverse clients

  9. Interpersonal process approach • Establishing a Working Alliance (WA) • Honoring the client’s resistance • A internal focus for change • Responding to painful feelings • Familial and developmental factors • Inflexible interpersonal coping strategies • Interpersonal patterns and themes • An interpersonal solution • Resolution and change

  10. Establishing a Working Alliance (WA) • The WA is a collaborative relationship • WA: agree on goals, collaborate on tasks, and establish a bond relationship based on trust and acceptance • Empathic understanding is the foundation for WA • Genuine concern, respect, and non-judgmental attitude • Demonstrate understanding and identify patterns • Immediacy—working in moment • Using process comments to build WA

  11. Honoring the client’s resistance • Identify resistance • Help client identity when resistance is occurring with a non-judgmental manner • Address reluctance to resistance • Validate the protection aspects • Do not repeat maladaptive patterns in session • Formulate working hypotheses • What is the threat? • Respond to resistance • Educate • Explore the danger/identify the threat

  12. A internal focus for change • Shifting to an internal focus • A prerequisite for change • Focusing clients inward • Reluctance to adopt an internal focus • Placing the locus of change with clients • Fostering clients’ initiative • Avoiding a hierarchical relationship • Supporting clients’ own autonomy and initiative • Shared control in the therapist-client relationship

  13. A internal focus for change • Helping clients in solving their own problems • Providing a corrective emotional experience • Tracking clients’ anxiety • Identifying signs of clients’ anxiety • Approach clients’ anxiety directly • Focus clients inward to explore their anxiety

  14. Responding to painful feelings • Approach the clients’ feelings • Expand and elaborate clients’ affect • Identify the predominant affect • Hold client’s pain • Therapists’ factors for not responding to clients’ feelings

  15. Familial and developmental factors • Understand structural family relations-patterns • The family’s ability to respond to the child’s need for both relatedness & separateness • Three styles of parenting: control and affection • Authoritative - high control/high affection • Authoritarian - high control/low affection • Disengaged – low control/low affection • Permissive – low control/high affection • Love withdrawal • Insecure attachment

  16. Inflexible interpersonal coping strategies • Horney’s interpersonal model Unmet development needs Core Conflict or Anxiety Inflexible interpersonal coping style Turning against self to block core conflict Move Toward Others please Move Away from Others avoid Move Against Others intimidate Elicit Rejection From others Reject self Reject others

  17. Interpersonal patterns and themes • How clients bring their problems into the therapeutic relationship • moving toward, moving against, or moving away • Testing Behavior • Transference Reactions • Interpersonal balance

  18. An interpersonal solution • Resolving problems through the interpersonal process • Bring client’s conflicts into the therapeutic relationship • Using the process dimension to facilitate change • Providing a corrective emotional experience • Therapists’ initial reluctance to work with the process dimension

  19. Resolution and change • The working –through process • Change relationship patterns with therapist acquaintancessupportive othershistorical figuresprimary others • Therapist actively help clients • Realistically anticipate others responses • Provide corrective emotional experience

  20. Resolution and change • Work through family-of origin work • Internal focus for change • Grief work • Plan for future: • Orienting clients to listen to themselves what they want to do, what they want to be, and what they want to become

  21. Resolution and change • Clients are ready to terminate when • Clients report they consistently feel better & can respond in more adaptive ways • Client expand their old coping styles and don’t reenact maladaptive relational patterns • Others gives them feedback that they are different • Accepting that the relationship must end

  22. Resolution and change • Effective terminations: review-predict-practice • Review what has changed • Predict and make realistic plans for coping with the problems which could come up • practice to respond differently • Ending the relationship • Say good-bye

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