Orientation Phase (Sessions 1–4) (2024)

Self-System Therapy for Depression: Therapist Guide

Kari M. Eddington et al.

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2017

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9780190602536

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Eddington, Kari M., and others, 'Orientation Phase (Sessions 1–4)', Self-System Therapy for Depression: Therapist Guide, Treatments That Work (New York, 2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1 Dec. 2017), https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190602512.003.0005, accessed 24 Apr. 2024.

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Chapter 5 provides a session-by-session guide to the orientation phase of self-system therapy (SST). The main goals of orientation are to familiarize the client with the structure and focus of SST and to establish a strong, collaborative working alliance that supports the client’s efforts in identifying and addressing underlying sources of problems in self-regulation. The orientation phase involves educating the client about self-regulation, reinstating goal-directed activities, conducting a self-in-context assessment, and developing a problem formulation. The therapist completes an evaluation of the client’s presenting problems, introduces the idea of self-regulation, and searches for the possible origins of self-guides and standards to develop a formulation of the problems with self-regulation that are most directly associated with the depression. SST emphasizes the breakdown in motivation that characterizes episodes of depression and uses the orientation phase to begin to increase the client’s level of goal-directed activity (especially promotion-oriented activity) and identify targets for change.

Keywords: depression, goals, behavioral activation, self-system therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, self-in-context assessment, case formulation

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Psychosocial Interventions and Psychotherapy Clinical Psychology

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Treatments That Work

Collection: Oxford Clinical Psychology

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