Drills and spaced repetition
Two things worth practising: whether you can apply a principle to a case you have not seen, and whether you can still define the terms in six weeks. The first is what the quizzes test; the second is what the cards are for.
Question sets
Foundations and history
What psychotherapy is, how the field got here, and how systems are compared.
5 questions
The evidence base
Trials, effect sizes, common factors, therapist effects, harm.
6 questions
Psychoanalytic & psychodynamic
Defense, transference, the two triangles, the brief dynamic therapies.
5 questions
Humanistic, existential & experiential
The conditions, the givens, emotion-focused method.
5 questions
Behavioural, exposure & cognitive
Contingencies, inhibitory learning, cognitive conceptualisation.
6 questions
Interpersonal & third wave
Complementarity, IPT problem areas, flexibility, dialectics.
5 questions
Systemic, culture & integration
Circular causality, minority stress, integration, the future.
5 questions
Clinical practice & ethics
Risk, consent, boundaries, documentation, decisions under pressure.
7 questions
Flashcards
Spaced repetition
Every key concept from every system, scheduled so you see each one just before you would have forgotten it.