Chapter 13 - Psychotherapy Flashcards
___ of psychotherapists are eclectic
1 of 2
Use variety of approaches
Over _____ types of therapy
400
After 3 months of no improvement
Get a new therapist
Aversion therapy
Deliberately have negative reaction when you do the behavior
Most effective with gays who want to go straight
Antabuse therapy
Prescription drug
Vomit for 48 hours if you drink alcohol
Red rubber doughnut technique
Aversion technique
Change gay to straight
Males put genitals into electrically charged doughnut
- see arousal from male pics
- receive electric shock in genitals
Electric convulsive technique
Use as last resort
Shocking brain
-rearranged chemicals of the brain to eliminate depression
Shock right half of the brain
-unilateral
Comfort measures used
-muscle relaxers
10-12 seconds 3 times a week
Side effects
- memory loss
- blinding headaches
- confusion
- disorientation
- tend to disappear after 6 months
Psychosurgery
Prefrontal lobotomy
-chip away at frontal lobe of the brain
Most drastic form if therapy
Least used technique
Moniz
- won peace prize
- put ice picks through eye sockets into frontal lobe
- seemed to be effective
Beck’s cognitive therapy
For the depressed
They make thinking errors
- think in polar opposites
- either good or bad
Over generalize
Accentuate the negative
-fail to recognize the positive
Try to eliminate negative thoughts
Psychodynamic therapy
Psycho analytical
Freudian therapy
Talk therapy
Insight therapy
- not analyze what patient says
- analyze what patient is not telling you
Transference
Patient treats therapist as an authoritative figure
Counter transference
Therapist treats patient as child
Client centered therapy
Non directive therapy
-client in charge
Empathy, trust, unconditional positive regard
Mirror technique
- therapist reflects statement back to client
- client can think about and expand their own thoughts
Rational emotive therapy
Ellis
Way of dealing with feelings
-push them outward
ABC
- activating experience
- beliefs (irrational)
- consequences
Directly attack clients irrational beliefs
-replace beliefs with rational beliefs
Take care of unfinished business
Gestalt therapy
Perls - father of gestalt therapy
Stop intellectualizing and deal with feelings
Take care of unfinished business
Get in touch with whole self
Deal with present, here and now
Attribute feelings to inanimate objects
-extension of the self
