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Chapter 15 Flashcards

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Psychiatrists

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Medical degrees, prescribe meds

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Social workers

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Counseling with personal and family problems, trained within the system

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Counselors

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Masters/PhD in counseling, personal and family problems, deal with normal people

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Clinical psychologists

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PhDs in clinical psych, severe mental disorders, long term care

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Psychotherapists

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Not a real professional, no government requirements, freaky stuff

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Psychological therapies

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Talk therapies

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Psychoanalysis

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Insight therapy, underlying motivations, therapist must interpret

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Free association

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Patient verbalizes about whatever comes to mind

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Resistance

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Unconsciously try to keep secrets

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Transference

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Patient’s feelings toward someone are transferred to the therapist and they deal with the emotion through therapy

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Criticisms to psychoanalysis

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Slow and expensive

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Humanistic therapy

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Insight therapy, focusses on person and self esteem

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Person-centered therapy

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Low self esteem means no growth as a person, so must help people lead fulfilling lives

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Active listening

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Echo patient, shows them you’re listening

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Unconditional positive regard

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Completely non-judgemental to client

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Criticisms to humanistic therapy

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Not good for severe disorders of personality disorders

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Group therapies

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Same concept as humanistic therapy; AA, support groups, etc

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Behavior therapies

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Solve current problems and change behaviors

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Classical conditioning (Counter)

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Unlearn associations

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Exposure therapies

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Expose to what they’d like to avoid

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Systematic desensitization

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Taught to relax, start with exposures, replace anxiety with relaxation

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Virtual reality

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Systematic desensitization for fears like flying

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Aversive conditioning

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Dysfunctional positive regard for something, replace it with negative associations

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Token economy

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Rewarded for good behavior, punished for bad, but life does not really work like this, and behaviors may revert after therapy. Must remove privileges to earn them back

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Cognitive therapies

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Nonspecific fears and depression

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Beck’s Depression therapy

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Must break cycle of depression, change negative thinking

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Cognitive-behavioral therapy

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Cognitive and behavioral changes to add to depression therapy (Get coffee with a friend)

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Group and family therapies

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Show that others have the same struggles

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Evaluating psychotherapy

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Most who receive therapy are better off than those who do not, but most people get better with time

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Therapy provides…

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Hope for demoralized people; New perspective on yourself; an empathetic, trusting, and caring individual

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Anti-psychotics

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Lower hallucinations, paranoia, block dopamine receptors in brain

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Anti-anxiety meds

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Alcohol-like depression of CNS activity without too much drowsiness; Over-prescribed, can cause abuse; focusses on symptoms

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Anti-depressants

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Blocks reabsorption of serotonin and norepinephrine, take 4 weeks for full effect

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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Send electricity through the brain, used to be abused, don’t understand how it works, only used in extreme cases, involves some memory loss

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Deep brain stimulation

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Area between frontal cortex and limbic system; inhibits negative emotions

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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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Stimulates less active areas of the brain

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Psychosurgery

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Brain surgery, rare, irreversible, cut things, lobotomy(used to this too much and cut a lot) Today, use lasers

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Therapeutic Life Change

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Tricks body into feeling better, successful with depression

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What activities help the brain to be less depressed?

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Aerobic exercise, adequate sleep, light, social connections, anti-rumination, nutritional supplements

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