Techniques

One way of choosing appropriate clinical interventions is to use your formulation of a client’s difficulties to select techniques which will further their treatment goals. Psychology Tools technique categories include:

• Affect regulation
• Behavioral activation
• Behavioral experiments
• Case conceptualization
• Cognitive remediation
• Cognitive restructuring
• Distraction
• Exposure
• Forgiveness
• Functional analysis
• Grounding
• Hypnosis
• Imagery
• Metaphor
• Mindfulness
• Motivational interviewing (M.I.)
• Narrative exposure therapy (NET)
• Psychoeducation
• Relapse management
• Relaxation
• Rumination-focused CBT
• Self-compassion
• Self-monitoring
• Socratic dialogue
• Supervision resources
• Thought records
• Writing therapy