CH.16.1 Therapy and Treatment Flashcards
What is trephining:
A small hole was made in the afflicted individual’s skull to release spirits from the body.
People who were considered odd and unusual were placed where?
Asylums were the first institutions created for the specific purpose of housing people with psychological disorders,
What is Involuntary treatment
refers to therapy that is not the individual’s choice.
What is Voluntary treatment mean
the person chooses to attend therapy to obtain relief from symptoms.
What is Psychotherapy
is a psychological treatment that employs various methods to help someone overcome personal problems, or to attain personal growth. In modern practice, it has evolved into what is known as psychodynamic therapy, which will be discussed later.
what is Biomedical therapy
involves medication and/or medical procedures to treat psychological disorders.
What is individual therapy,
also known as individual psychotherapy or individual counseling, the client and clinician meet one-on-one (usually from 45 minutes to 1 hour).
What is In group therapy
a clinician meets together with several clients with similar problems (Figure 16.16). When children are placed in group therapy, it is particularly important to match clients for age and problems.
What is Family therapy
a special form of group therapy, consisting of one or more families.
What is comorbid disorders
the individual has two or more diagnoses. This can often be a substance-related diagnosis and another psychiatric diagnosis, such as depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia.
What is counterconditioning
classical conditioning therapeutic technique in which a client learns a new response to a stimulus that has previously elicited an undesirable behavior
What is deinstitutionalization
process of closing large asylums and integrating people back into the community where they can be treated locally
explain electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
type of biomedical therapy that involves using an electrical current to induce seizures in a person to help alleviate the effects of severe depression
what is exposure therapy
counterconditioning technique in which a therapist seeks to treat a client’s fear or anxiety by presenting the feared object or situation with the idea that the person will eventually get used to it
what is free association
technique in psychoanalysis in which the patient says whatever comes to mind at the moment
