Classification
The clp venture is starting to classify the growingly large number of procedures for which entries have been accepted into a few often-overlapping domains (categories) which are more economic for descriptive discussion. As examples, the domain of:
• exposure includes the procedures of `assertiveness training', `CAVE', `coping cat', `narrative exposure', etc.
• interpretation includes the procedures of `countertransference, use of ', `metaphor, use of', `transference interpretation', etc.
• roleplay-rehearsal includes the procedures of `assertiveness training', `family work for schizophrenia', `imago relationship therapy', etc.
and so on
How different domains relate to and differ from one another will be subjected to systematic analysis.
TABLE 1: Provisional list and definitions of 16 domains
d = distinct from all other domains
AF, BST, CM, Dis, EC, Edu, EFT, Emp, Exp, GPA, HW, IST, Mod, Ref, RRP, TSI,
• Attention-Focusing (AF) attend to and accept external stimuli or one’s own thoughts, sensations, and feelings
• Body Skills training (BST) train to monitor and change habits and sensations
• d Contingency Management (CM) appropriately reward desired behavior and ignore or penalize undesired behavior
• d Distraction (Dis) divert attention from feelings and thoughts
• Education (Edu) formally explain what maintains a problem and how to overcome it
• d Empathy Expression (Emp) express understanding and acceptance of another’s feelings beyond usual rapport
• d Environmental Change (EC) planned non-contingent change of the environment
• Exposure training (Exp) guide patients into facing frightening/avoided situations/feelings/imagery/thoughts
• Externalize Feelings & Thoughts (EFT) help patients uncover hidden feelings & thoughts
• Goal Planning & Attainment (GPA) help patients define problems and goals to reduce them, and steps to attain goals
• Homework (HW) help patients plan to carry out and record tasks between sessions, in the natural environment
• Interpersonal Skills training (IST) train appropriate social behaviours
• d Modeling (Mod) show clients what to do by watching it being done by the therapist or others or in a film, or by imagining themselves doing it
• Reframing (Ref) help patients see things differently by discussion/written methods
• Rehearsal & Role Play (RRP) rehearse imagined/actual behavior to improve skill in performing it or to understand it from one’s own or another perspective
• d Therapist’s Self-Instruction (TSI) therapist uses own feeling, memo or action to help the patient
TABLE 2: Domains involved in each procedure