Immediacy and Coping Skills Training

Hi everyone!

Just wondering if anyone can help me... I study psychology at uni (am also a member of this site as I suffer anxiety)

I have a clinical psychology test tomorrow, and one of the topics is Immediacy and Coping Skills Training.. I am not really sure what it is, I missed the class, I am hoping someone here may have done it before, or knows what it is. I just need a basic idea of what it is and what psychological conditions it would be used for!

thanks in advance

Kel xx

try google?

or... do you have class readings somewhere? usually people are tested on those rather than just having a 'basic idea of what it is' that may or may not be synchronous with what one was supposed to learn in class...

Hey there,

We weren't given any readings in the class that I was away for, so I dont have anything on it. I have tried looking it up but nothing relevent comes up!

It's just a small section of the test, we need to read a scenario and just state the treatment we would use and why, we dont actually have to go into how its done or anything.

Thanks for the reply, will keep looking

Kel xx

hey. yeah, sorry, i just haven't heard of it before...

worst case...

> Immediacy and Coping Skills Training

i guess coping skills training might be about dealing with emotion dysregulation? stuff like distraction, self soothing etc.

immediacy (really and truely talking from my *** here) might be about refocusing their attention back on the present (basically safe) circumstances? don't quote me on this because i really have no idea...

PLEASE check this in case i'm wrong... but my ignorant guess would be that it would be used for emotion dysregulation (found in borderline personality and / or post traumatic stress type conditions)

and self harm.

except that... i can't find any hits via google...

it isn't a trick question - is it?

something along the lines of 'thats a kooky theory that hasn't been empirically validated hence we should never employ it?'

how much focus is there on employing the most effective treatment (as per outcome studies)? if there is a lot of that... trick question, i'd say ;-)

Hey there,

Thanks heaps for your help, I am just as stuck as you are! I am actually starting to think it might be coping skills training.. not immediacy and coping skills training.. think I misread an email!
But still have no idea what it is!!

Oh well..

Thanks heaps for your ideas, they are all helping

Kel xx

First, lets find the actual definitions of what you are studying:

www.Argosy.edu Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This

<font color="blue">im·me·di·a·cy Pronunciation[i-mee-dee-uh-see] Pronunciation Key -–noun, plural -cies. 1. the state, condition, or quality of being immediate.

2. Often, immediacies. an immediate need: the immediacies of everyday living.
3. Philosophy. a. immediate presence of an object of knowledge to the mind, without any distortions, inferences, or interpretations, and without involvement of any intermediate agencies.
b. the direct content of the mind as distinguished from representation or cognition.

coping skills: how well you cope with the problems in your life and stress in general

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What you need to realize is whether this is talking about a person in general, a patient, or you as a therapist. From there you should be able to utilize what you've already learned (such as good coping skills) and write about the elements involved. Good wishes!

Hey,

Thanks for your reply,

After i realised they were 2 seperate things, I am so blonde! I found Coping skills training (CST) which is used for alcoholics, anger problems, social phobias etc..

I am still not really clear on immediacy, which is a skill therapists use, its very similar to confrontation.. but ah well.. im a step further than I was before!!

Thanks for your help

Kel xx

I would think immediacy would have to do with being in the moment and attendant to what is happening?

Found a couple links: http://clearinghouse.missouriwestern...cripts/236.asp

http://www.atlasbooks.com/marktplc/rr00916.htm

Iraqi War veterans get both immediacy and Coping Skills Training from the VA so I'd think they would be tools for PTSD?: http://www.mattc.org/_media/publicat...an%20Guide.pdf

Hi Kella-- I am not sure if this is the same immediacy that your professor is talking about, but when I do group therapy at the inpatient hospital there is something that we refer to as "taking care of immediacy needs." This comes up a lot when there are three thousand things going on in group. Here is an example:

I am doing group therapy and there are about 15 people in the group. There is a pretty in depth discussion taking place about fear. I notice that one of my patients looks uncomfortable. I ask what is going on and he tells me that he is hearing voices and they are scaring him. The person no longer feels comfortable in the room and he is very afraid. I ask the group to feel free to continue to the discussion, but to please carry on for a moment without me. I take the scared patient aside and do whatever I need to do to help him feel safe again and to help orient him to reality.

That is what we call taking care of immediacy needs-- even though something was going on in the group, taking care of the scared patient became an immediacy need-- I had to assess what was most important to attend to at that moment. Although what was going in group was very important there was something even more significant in the moment that required immediate attention.

Simiarly you can teach a patient about taking care of immediacy needs-- sort of like prioritizing-- for example.... the patient needs to do a couple things today-- pick up her medication, pick up her dry cleaning, and go to the post office-- but she only has time and/or money to do one of these things.... so if the patient was taking care of immediacy needs then she would pick up her medication and do the rest of the stuff another time.

I hope that helped.

Hi everyone,

Thanks heaps for your replies, test is over now, and it wasnt even in there!! Trust that to happen to me!

Thanks anyways everyone

Take care

Kel xx