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Divergent Treatment Solutions
For Disability’s Top Three
  • Presentation, CARP BC 2004, February 18, 2004
  • Drs. Buch, Garrett & Bannerman
  • Behavioural Health Care
  • www.behaviouralhealthcare.com
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Thanks for the invitation!
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Overview
  • To identify 3 characteristics of an excellent assessment.
  • To become acquainted with 3 treatment approaches.
  • To generate a list of strengths & weaknesses of these 3 treatments to expedite case management & work return.
  • To familiarize yourself with the outcome literature on 3 psychological disorders.
  • To explore 3 future treatment trends.
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Not All The Same ...
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Insight-Oriented Doggles ...
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Hey, What’s With The Finger ...
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The Case of Ms. Bank Teller
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ASSESSMENT
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Assessment
  • Assess first!
  • Assessment as story
  • Assessment as therapy
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Assessment Types
  • Psycho-Legal
  • 1 - 2 visits only
  • Comprehensive, costly
  • Lots of testing
  • Diagnostic focus
  • Atheoretical
  • Intake
  • First of many visits
  • Narrow, less costly
  • A few, brief tests
  • Treatment focus
  • Follows theory
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Benchmarks of Excellence
  • Appropriate Scope


  • Clear Opinion


  • Scientist/Practitioner Expertise
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THERAPY
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Insight-Oriented Therapy
  • Origin of psychiatric symptoms
  • Treatment objectives
  • Empathy
  • Transference & Countertransference
  • Corrective emotional experience
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Insight-Oriented Tx for Ms. Teller
  • Let her tell her story
  • Safety, security & understanding through empathy
  • How she interprets & understands her world
  • Attention to transference
  • Interpretation of transference/emotions to validate
  • Deepen insight & self-awareness
    • Working through inner conflicts & motivations to build a more coherent and integrated self
  • Enlist the help of corrective emotional experiences
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THERAPY
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Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
  • Present-oriented, active, strategic, time-limited, and structured
  • Psychoeducational, focused on skill acquisition
  • Goal is to replace maladaptive perceptions with adaptive beliefs
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CBT Components for Ms. Teller
  • Develop & share case formulation & treatment rationale
  • Behavioural strategies (cBt)
    • behavioural activation
    • increase pleasant, mastery & social activities
    • relaxation training: a self-calming tool to manage anxiety
    • systematic desensitization
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CBT Components for Ms. Teller
  • Systematic Desensitization
    • Create a hierarchy or fear ladder
    • CAP Principle: Challenge (don’t overwhelm); Apply anxiety management techniques to reduce distress of challenge (never escape); Practice
    • Exposure can begin in imagination (covert desensitization) then in real life trials (in vivo desensitization)
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CBT Components for Ms. Teller
  • Cognitive Strategies (Cbt)
    • mood monitoring
    • identify automatic thoughts & cognitive distortions
    • rational responding; formulating adaptive alternatives
    • address underlying assumptions and maladaptive schema
      • the consistent way in which the self or others are viewed
      • core beliefs can increase our vulnerability to emotional distress
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CBT Components for Ms. Teller
  • Relapse prevention
    • normalize recurrence of some symptoms; attentional control
    • anticipate triggers and stressors
    • develop social supports
    • review & rehearse adaptive coping strategies
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THERAPY
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EMDR
  • Treatment method
  • Treatment rationale
  • Treatment phases (8)
  • EMDR distinctives
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EMDR Treatment Phases
  • Client History
  • Preparation
  • Assessment
  • Desensitization
  • Installation
  • Body Scan
  • Closure
  • Re-evaluation
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EMDR Distinctives
  • Bilateral activation
  • Less talk
  • Re-exposure to trauma important
  • Client centred
  • Somatic focus
  • Change may be unpredictable
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Time for a Break
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What Do YOU Think?

OPEN DISCUSSION
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Strengths & Weaknesses
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How to Compare Divergent Tx
  • On a conceptual level


  • On a technical level
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On A Conceptual Level ...
  • Explanation of etiology
  • Maintaining factors
  • Mechanism of clinical change
    • role of insight
    • role of language & cognition vs. experiential interventions
    • nature & role of therapeutic alliance
  • Emphasis upon here-&-now vs. developmental or historical factors
  • Emphasis on environment vs. internal processes
  • Emphasis placed on genetic or biological vulnerability
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On A Technical Level ...
  • Importance of identifying & pursuing specific treatment goals
  • Importance of objective diagnosis & assessment of symptom severity
  • Importance of obtaining specific information from patients & family members
  • Identification of patient characteristics that are predictive of clinical improvement
  • Role of case formulation in guiding selection of specific interventions
  • Emphasis placed on therapeutic structure (problem focus) & directive intervention vs. unstructured & non-directive
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STUDIES
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Evaluating Outcome Research
  • A typology is useful to classify & weigh research contributions
  • Factors common across therapies account for a significant proportion of what is therapeutic
  • Characteristics of patient, therapist & their relationship are important
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Treatment of Depression
What’s Effective?
  • BT, CBT & IPT
    • Type 1 (RCT) studies
    • Meta-analytic reviews
  • Combined psychosocial & medication
    • Strongly supported by at least one major study
  • SSRIs & several new compounds
    • Support from Type 1 RCTs w/ placebo controls
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Treatment of PTSD
What’s Effective?
  • Exposure, Anxiety Management
    • Many Type 1 & 2 studies
  • EMDR
    • One Type 1 study & several Type 2 studies of civilian trauma vs controls
  • Antidepressants
    • Type 1 RCTs with placebo controls
  • BT, SSRIs & EMDR
    • Meta-analytic studies
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Tx of Pain Disorder
What’s Effective?
  • CBT Individual or Group
    • Reduces pain-related distress & disability (not pain)
    • Several Type 2 RCTs
  • Cognitive Therapy, Behavioural Therapy
    • At least three Type 4 studies & several more Type 5 studies
  • Antidepressants
    • Reduce pain intensity
    • Large number of Type 1 & Type 2 placebo-controlled RCTs
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TRENDS
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Multi-Modal Models
  • Interdisciplinary Treatment
    • Getting more per investment dollar?
  • Individualization vs Generic Tx
    • Modularized CBT: CbT vs. cBT
  • Eclectic need not be a dirty word
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Brain, Mind & Body
  • Neuroplasticity & the changing brain.
    • How many new connections did you make today?
  • Brain/Mind/Body in action
    • An example
  • Implications for treatmnet
    • The neurobiology of posychotherapy
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Techno-Therapy
  • Biofeedback
    • traditional biofeedback, neurofeedback, hemoencephalography
  • Digitized Psychology
    • Self-help web sites & list-serves
    • Web-based appointments, assessment & counselling
    • The digital psychologist
  • Virtual Reality
    • being there, but not
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Remember . . .