Ch: 16 (Therapies) Flashcards
Area of psychology that integrates science and theory to prevent and treat psychological disorders
Clinical Psychology
Non-medical process that helps individuals with psychological disorders recognize and overcome their problems
Psychotherapy
Treatments that reduce or eliminate the symptoms of psychological disorders by altering aspects of body functioning
Biological Therapies
Administer drugs as a part of therapy to treat many disorders
Drug Therapy
Anti-anxiety drugs are also known as….
Tranquilizers
Most commonly used Anti-depressent
SSRI’s
Medicine that is widely used to treat bipolar disorder
Lithium
Powerful drugs that diminish agitated behavior, reduce tension, decrease hallucinations, improve social behavior and produce better sleep patterns in individuals who have a severe psychological disorder, especially schizophrenia
Antipsychotic Drugs
Most widely used antipsychotic drug
Neuroleptics
This treatment is used as a last resort for severe depression, PTSD, and bipolar. Designed to create seizures.
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Processes used by mental health professionals to help individuals recognize, define, and overcome their psychological and interpersonal difficulties and improve their adjustment.
Psychotherapies
The relationship between the therapist and client
Therapeutic Alliance
A therapy that encourages insight and self-awareness, includes psychodynamic and humanistic therapies
Insight therapy
Stress the importance of the unconscious mind, extensive interpretation by the therapist and the role of early-childhood experiences in the development of one’s problems.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Freud’s technique for analyzing one’s unconscious thoughts.
Psychoanalysis
Technique of having individuals say aloud whatever comes to mind
Free Association
Peoples release of emotional tension when they relive an emotionally charges and conflicting experience
Catharsis
A psychoanalytic technique used to interpret a person’s dream
Dream analysis
Treatment that is unique in their emphasis on self-healing capacities, that encourages clients to understand themselves and to grow personally
Humanistic Therapies
Carl Rogers Therapy approach
Client Centered Therapy
Provides a warm, supportive atmosphere to improve clients self-concept and encourage the client to gain insight into problems. Emphasis on the connections.
Client Centered Therapy
Technique in which the therapist mirrors the client’s own feelings back to the clients
Reflective Speech
Approach in which therapist challenges clients to help them become more aware of their feelings and face their problems. Therapist pushed client.
Gestalt Therapy
Treatment based on the behavioral and social cognitive theories of learning, that use principles of learning to reduce or eliminate maladaptive behavior
Behavior Therapies
A method that treats anxiety by getting the person to associate deep relaxation with increasingly intense anxiety producing situations
Systematic Desensitization
Exposing individuals to feared stimuli to an excessive degree while not allowing them to avoid the stimulant
Flooding
Repeated pairing of undesirable behavior (Smoking, drinking) with an aversive stimulus (Shock, Nausea)
Aversive Conditioning
Treatments emphasizing that cognition, or thoughts, are the main source of psychological problems and that attempt to change the individual’s feelings and behaviors by changing cognitions. Skill development, we have control over our thinking and feeling.
Cognitive Therapies
Consists of a combination of cognitive therapy, with its emphasis on reducing self-defeating thoughts, and behavior therapy, with its emphasis on changing behavior, focus: building self efficacy
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Use of combination techniques from different therapies based on the therapists judgment of which particular methods will provide the greatest benefit for the client.
Integrative therapies
Views the individual as part of a social system of relationships that are influenced by various social and cultural factors
Sociocultural approaches
Brings together individuals who share a particular psychological disorder in sessions that are typically led by a mental health professional
Group Therapy
Voluntary organizations of individuals who get together on a regular basis to discuss topics of common interest
Self-Help support groups
What do SSRI’s do
Increase norepinephrine
