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