Chapter 14 - Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Question 1

Based on a more scientific approach to therapy. Found automatic negative thoughts underlie patterns of behavior

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Beck’s Cognitive Therapy

Question 2

Drugs and other physical interventions that target the biological processes underlying psychological disorders; primary goal is to reduce symptoms

Answer 2

Biomedical therapy

Question 3

Cognitive Distortion: magnifying the negative and minimizing the positive

Answer 3

Magnification/minimization

Question 4

First formal psychotherapy to emerge was this, developed by Freud, where therapist attempts to bring hidden feelings and thoughts to conscious awareness

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Psychoanalysis

Question 5

25-50% use a combined approach to therapy, called this

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Eclectic approach

Question 6

Humanistic Therapy: being honest with patients

Answer 6

genuiness

Question 7

an unwillingness to cooperate in therapy or with a therapist

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Resistance

Question 8

therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

Answer 8

Behavior therapy

Question 9

3 basic biological approaches underlying psych. disorders

Answer 9

Use of drugs/medications, ECT, and surgery

Question 10

form of brain stimulation that is still used to treat disorders today

Answer 10

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Question 11

choosing treatment that integrates the “best available” research findings, “clinical expertise”, and knowledge of a patient’s culture, values, and preferences.

Answer 11

Evidence-based practice

Question 12

Cognitive Distortion: “They must have been looking/laughing at me” even if they weren’t

Answer 12

Personalizing

Question 13

county home to “largest single-site jail in the country” where 20-24% of detainess have mental illness or symptoms

Answer 13

Cook County

Question 14

thinking about the world wrong

Answer 14

Cognitive Distortions

Question 15

Beck believes that cognitions such as “I can never be happy” need to change in order for depressed patients to recover

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Beck’s Theory for Depression

Question 16

Exposing yourself to a stimulus in stages so you learn to eliminate the unwanted response. (Pic of spider, toy spider, dead spider, live spider)

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Systematic Desensitization

Question 17

_____ _____ like SSRIs inhibit the reuptake of the neurotransmitter serotonin. Allowed to remain in synapse longer and have greater effect

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Psychotropic Medications

Question 18

Expose patients to things they fear and avoid in a safe environment. Because no harm comes to them, their anxiety will decreases and they learn to control anxiety

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Exposure Therapy

Question 19

Humanistic Therapy: regardless of what you say in therapy, we will still try to help you

Answer 19

Unconditional positive regard

Question 20

aims to alter the way people act and alter the way they think

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Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (C.B.T.)

Question 21

Humanistic Therapy: The therapist engages in _____ _____ and echoes, restates, and clarifies the patient’s thinking, acknowledging expressed feelings

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active listening

Question 22

Influenced by Freud, in a face-to-face setting, this therapy is for understanding symptoms and themes across relationships in a patient’s life

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Psychodynamic Therapy

Question 23

It can be difficult for clinicians to remain free of _____ when reporting on the successes and failures of clients

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bias

Question 24

Alternative to ECT; pulsating magnetic coil is placed over prefrontal regions of the brain to treat depression w/ minimal side effects

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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)

Question 25

what we think influences how we feel, behave, and react to our environment, according to this therapy

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Cognitive Therapy

Question 26

method that was popular even in Neolithic times. Although used sparingly, about 200 such operations do take place in the US annualy

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Psychosurgery

Question 27

“talk therapy”: Treatment approach in which a client works with a mental health professional to reduce psychological symptoms and improve his or her quality of life

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Psychotherapy

Question 28

Goal is to boost self-fulfillment by helping people grow in self-awareness and self-acceptance

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Humanistic Therapies

Question 29

In mid to late 1800s, she championed the mental hygiene movement in the US

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Dorothea Dix

Question 30

4 Freudian methods to unravel conscious mind

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Hypnosis, Free Association, Dream Analysis, and Projective Tests

Question 31

Humanistic Therapy: trying to understand the problems of others and help them

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empathy

Question 32

seeks to diminish a behavior by linking it with an unpleasant reaction (reducing alcohol consumption with nausea pill)

Answer 32

Aversion therapy

Question 33

Preventing psych. disorders means removing these 6 factors that affect society

Answer 33

poverty, meaningless work, constant criticism, unemployment, racism, and sexism

Question 34

Eventually the patient opens up and reveals his or her innermost private thoughts and may develop positive or negative feelings toward the therapist in this process

Answer 34

Transference