therapeutic interventions

• Idiographic Data


  Specific details and background information, specific or unique information
• Nomothetic


  Broad information, nature, and treatment, generalization or commonalities with other context
• Treatment


  Also known as therapy, procedure designed to change abnormal behavior to a more normal behavior, consists of client, therapies, and series of contact between them
• Psychological Interventions


  • Psychodynamic
  • Humanistic
  • Cognitive
  • Biological
  • Behavioral
• Psychodynamic


  1. Free Association

  2. Transference

  3. Resistance

  4. Dreams interpretation

  5. Catharsis

  6. Working Through

  7. Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapies

  8. Relational Psychoanalytic Therapy

  9. Hypnotherapy

  10. Play Therapy
• Humanistic


  1. Client-Centered Therapy

  2. Support Group

  3. Home-Based Self-Help Programs

  4. Social Skills Training

  5. Family Therapy

  6. Group Therapy

  7. Psychological Debriefing

  8. Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)

  9. Motivational Interviewing

  10. Milieu Therapy

  11. Parent Management Training

  12. Gestalt Therapy
• Cognitive


  1. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

  2. Neutralizing

  3. Exposure and Response (Ritual) Prevention

  4. Beck's Cognitive Therapy

  5. Aversion Therapy

  6. Relapse-Prevention Training

  7. Cognitive Processing Therapy
• Biological


  1. Sedative-Hypnotic Drugs

  2. Antidepressant

  3. Antipsychotic

  4. Vagus Nerve Stimulation

  5. Electroconvulsive Therapy

  6. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

  7. Mood Stabilizers

  8. Detoxification

  9. Antagonist Drug

  10. Antianxiety

  11. SSRIs
• Behavioral


  1. Exposure Treatment

  2. Systematic Desensitization

  3. Flooding

  4. Token Economy Programs

  5. Contingency Management
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder


  • Free Association
  • Dreams
  • Transference
  • Resistance
  • Client-Centered Therapy
  • CBT (Rational-Emotive Therapy, Mindfulness-Based CBT)
  • Benzodiazepines
  • Antidepressant
  • Antipsychotic
  • Play Therapy
• Specific Phobia


  • Exposure Treatments
  • Systematic Desensitization
  • Flooding
• Agoraphobia, Separation Anxiety Disorder

  • Exposure Therapy
  • Support Group
  • Home-Based Self-Help Programs
  • Benzodiazepines, SSRIs
• Social Anxiety


  • Benzodiazepines
  • Antidepressant
  • CBT
  • Exposure Therapy
  • Social Skills Training
  • D-Cycloserine
• Panic Attacks


  • Antidepressant
  • CBT
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder


  • Free Association
  • Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Neutralizing
  • Exposure and Response Prevention
  • Antidepressant
• PTSD and Acute Stress Disorder

  • Antidepressant
  • CBT (Mindfulness-Based)
  • Exposure Therapy (Virtual Reality Therapy, Prolonged Exposure)
  • Group and Family Therapy
  • Psychological Debriefing
• Dissociative Amnesia


  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Hypnotic Therapy
  • Drug Therapy (Amytal, Pentothal)
• Dissociative Identity Disorder


  • Psychodynamic
  • Supportive
  • Cognitive
  • Drug Therapy
• Depression


  • Free Association
  • CBT (Behavioral Activation, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
  • Beck's Cognitive Therapy
  • Antidepressant
  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
  • Interpersonal Psychotherapy
  • Couple Therapy
• Bipolar Disorder


  • Psychotropic Drugs
  • Mood Stabilizers
  • Antipsychotics
  • Antidepressant
  • Lithium
• Suicide Attempts


  • CBT (Mindfulness-Based)
  • Dialectal Behavior Therapy (DBT)
• Conversion and Somatic Symptom Disorders

  • Education
  • Reinforcement
  • Cognitive Restructuring
  • CBT
• Physical Disorders


  • Relaxation Training
  • Biofeedback
  • Meditation
  • Hypnosis
  • Self-Instruction Training
  • Support Groups
• Anorexia


  • Nutritional Rehabilitation (tube and intravenous feedings)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • CBT
  • Family Therapy
• Bulimia


  • Nutritional Rehabilitation
  • Antidepressant
  • CBT (Exposure and Response Prevention)
  • Interpersonal Psychotherapy
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
• Binge-Eating


  • CBT
  • Antidepressant
• Substance-Use Disorders


  • Aversion Therapy
  • Contingency Management
  • Relapse Prevention Training
  • CBT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
  • Detoxification
  • Antagonist Drugs
  • Drug Maintenance Therapy
  • Self-Help Programs
  • Community-Based Prevention Programs
• Sexual Dysfunctions


  • Affectual Awareness
  • Self-Instruction Training
  • Hormone Treatments
• Gender Dysphoria


  • Hormone administration
  • Gender-confirmation surgery/gender-reassignment surgery
• Schizophrenia


  • Milieu Therapy
  • Token Economy program
  • Antipsychotic Drugs
  • CBT (Cognitive Remediation, Hallucination Reinterpretation and Acceptance)
  • Family Therapy
  • Social Therapy
• Paranoid PD


  • CBT
  • Anxiety-Reduction Techniques
  • Antipsychotic drugs
• Schizoid PD


  • Social Skills Program
  • Group Therapy
  • CBT
• Schizotypal PD


  • CBT
  • Speech Lessons
  • Social Skills training
  • Antipsychotic Drugs
• Antisocial PD


  • Antipsychotic Drugs
  • CBT
• Borderline PD


  • Relational Psychoanalytic Therapy
  • DBT
  • Antidepressant
  • Antibipolar
  • Antianxiety
  • Antipsychotic
• Histrionic PD


  • CBT
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Group Therapy
• Avoidant PD


  • CBT
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Exposure treatments
  • Antianxiety
  • Antidepressant
• Obsessive-Compulsive PD


  SSRIs
• Conduct Disorder


  Parent Management Training
• Encopresis, Enuresis


  • Dry-bed training (reinforcement)
  • Biofeedback training
  • Family therapy