Week 1: The PMHNP as a Psychotherapist
Psychotherapy is often misunderstood or devalued.
• Discuss your views of the PMHNP as a psychotherapist • Discuss whether it is feasible to provide psychotherapy at each patient
encounter
Week2: Dream Interpretation
Freud viewed dreams as the “royal road to the unconscious.”
• Discuss a memorable dream from your childhood. Provide as much detail about the dream as possible.
• Interpret the dream of two peers using the psychodynamic dream of Freud or Jung
Week 3: Genogram
A genogram is often used to illustrate the behaviors of a family unit across generations. The genogram can be used to reduce resistance to harmful family patterns.
• Recall a family with a member who has a history of drug or alcohol dependence. • Describe how the genogram can be used to address the denial of family unit
addiction to individual family members.
Week 4: Automatic Thoughts
Patients are often asked to write their record their negative thoughts as homework for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) session.
• Explain how difficult this task might be for depressed patients? • Identify your culture and ethnicity. Describe how negative thoughts are
perceived in your culture. • Discuss ways you could increase the likelihood that a depressed patient
completes the Automatic Thoughts Download Automatic Thoughts assignment.
Week 5: The Culture of Family Violence
Identify your culture and how it address family violence.
• In your opinion, what is the best way for a family therapist to bring up the issues of abuse and violence in a family when those are not the problems that family members have identified?
Week 6: Grief
A 75-year-old widower walks into your practice to request therapy services. He has grieved the loss of his wife for the last 28 months; they were married 50 years.
• Explain the significance of interpersonal deficit as it relates to interpersonal therapy
• Describe how you would ask “very good” questions to facilitate the patient’s ability to see their own experiences.
Week 7: The Therapist’s Personality
According to Carl Rogers, unconditional positive regard involves basic acceptance and support of a person, regardless of what the person says or does. The therapist gives space for the client to express whatever immediate feeling is going on—confusion, resentment, fear, anger, courage, love, or pride.
• Discuss the role of the therapist’s personality in person-centered psychotherapy.
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• Are there particular people who have been or would be especially difficult for you to unconditionally positively regard?
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