Chapter 14 - Treatment of Psychological Disorders Flashcards
Based on a more scientific approach to therapy. Found automatic negative thoughts underlie patterns of behavior
Beck’s Cognitive Therapy
Drugs and other physical interventions that target the biological processes underlying psychological disorders; primary goal is to reduce symptoms
Biomedical therapy
Cognitive Distortion: magnifying the negative and minimizing the positive
Magnification/minimization
First formal psychotherapy to emerge was this, developed by Freud, where therapist attempts to bring hidden feelings and thoughts to conscious awareness
Psychoanalysis
25-50% use a combined approach to therapy, called this
Eclectic approach
Humanistic Therapy: being honest with patients
genuiness
an unwillingness to cooperate in therapy or with a therapist
Resistance
therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Behavior therapy
3 basic biological approaches underlying psych. disorders
Use of drugs/medications, ECT, and surgery
form of brain stimulation that is still used to treat disorders today
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
choosing treatment that integrates the “best available” research findings, “clinical expertise”, and knowledge of a patient’s culture, values, and preferences.
Evidence-based practice
Cognitive Distortion: “They must have been looking/laughing at me” even if they weren’t
Personalizing
county home to “largest single-site jail in the country” where 20-24% of detainess have mental illness or symptoms
Cook County
thinking about the world wrong
Cognitive Distortions
Beck believes that cognitions such as “I can never be happy” need to change in order for depressed patients to recover
Beck’s Theory for Depression
Exposing yourself to a stimulus in stages so you learn to eliminate the unwanted response. (Pic of spider, toy spider, dead spider, live spider)
Systematic Desensitization
_____ _____ like SSRIs inhibit the reuptake of the neurotransmitter serotonin. Allowed to remain in synapse longer and have greater effect
Psychotropic Medications
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
Exposure Therapy
Humanistic Therapy: regardless of what you say in therapy, we will still try to help you
Unconditional positive regard
aims to alter the way people act and alter the way they think
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (C.B.T.)
Humanistic Therapy: The therapist engages in _____ _____ and echoes, restates, and clarifies the patient’s thinking, acknowledging expressed feelings
active listening
Influenced by Freud, in a face-to-face setting, this therapy is for understanding symptoms and themes across relationships in a patient’s life
Psychodynamic Therapy
It can be difficult for clinicians to remain free of _____ when reporting on the successes and failures of clients
bias
Alternative to ECT; pulsating magnetic coil is placed over prefrontal regions of the brain to treat depression w/ minimal side effects
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)
