Chapter 15 Flashcards
What is psychoanalysis?
Insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives and defenses through free association and transference
What is client-centered therapy?
Insight therapy that emphasizing providing a supportive emotional climate for clients who lead where the therapy is going
What is cognitive therapy?
Uses specific strategies to correct habitual thinking errors that underlie various types of disorders
What is behavioral therapy?
Involved the application of learning principles to direct efforts to change clients maladaptive behaviors
What is biomedical therapy?
Physiological interventions intended to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders
What is psychopharmacology
The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
Who seeks therapy?
15% of people / year
Middle class, educated, insured, females, middle age
What are people suffering from when they go see therapists?
Excessive anxiety and depression
What degree do you need to have in order to be a psychiatrist?
Medical degree
What kind of patients do psychiatrists treat?
Those who need medicine to balance brain chemicals
What kind of degree does a psychologist need?
PhD, Psy. D
What kind of people do psychologists treat?
Treat every day problems and people with disorders in hospital settings
What are clinical counseling psychologists?
Specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems
What is Sigmund Freud associated with?
Transference, resistance and psychotherapy
What is transference?
Patients transfer to the analyze the emotions linked to other relationships
Redirecting feelings from one person to another
What is resistance?
Largely unconscious defense maneuvers intended to hinder the process of therapy
What are the basic concepts of psychotherapy?
Dream analysis, free association, and the unconscious
What is dream analysis?
The therapist intercepts the symbolic meaning of a clients dream
What is free association?
Client spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactly as they occur , with little censorship as possible
What is Carl Rogers associated with?
Genuineness, empathy, unconditional positive regard and in congruence
What is unconditional positive regard?
Constantly positive, always sees the good in people
What is incongruence?
When the patients ideal and perceived self aren’t the same
What is tar dice dyskinesia?
Neurological disorder marked by involuntary writhing and tic like movement of the mouth, tongue, face, hands, or feet
What is aversion therapy?
A behavior therapy and what universe stimulus is paired with the stimulus that elicits an undesirable response
What are antidepressant drugs
Gradually elevate mood and help bring people out of depression
What is systematic desensitization
A behavior therapy used to reduce phobic clients anxiety responses through counterconditioning
What are antipsychotic drugs
Gradually reduce psychotic symptoms, including hyperactivity, mental confusion, hallucinations, and delusions
What is ECT
Electroconvulsive therapy
Shock therapy
Biomedical treatment in which an electric shock is used to produce a Cordele seizure accompanied by convulsions
What is spontaneous remission?
A recovery for him from a disorder that occurs without formal treatment
What is the behavioral approach with operant conditioning?
Reward/punishment, behavior modifications, and token economy
What is classical conditioning in a behavioral approach
Systematic desensitization with Wolpe
Who is Wolpe and why is he important?
Psychologist who introduced classical conditioning with counterconditioning
What is counterconditioning?
behavior incompatible with a habitual undesirable pattern is induced.
What is Thorazine?
The classical antipsychotic, but it is used for positive symptoms and can cause tardive dyskinesia
What is clozapine?
Used to block negative symptoms and blocks receptors for dopamine
What are some anti-anxiety drugs
Valium, Xanax, and Librium
What are some antidepressant drugs?
Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil
What is the most widely prescribed psychotic drug?
Antidepressants
Cognitive therapy originated in the treatment of which disorder?
Depression
Who is Aaron Beck?
Father of cognitive therapy
What is Aaron Beck’s View of depression?
Notice that the press people all have the similar outlook on life
“take off the dark sunglasses”
Who is responsible for the rational emotive model
Albert Ellis
What do you and times I do drugs produce?
GABA
What does GABA do to the central nervous system
Prohibits central nervous system activity
What does SSRI stand for
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor’s
What is insight therapy?
Self understanding and promotes healthful hanged in personality and behavior
What is another name for anti depressants?
SSRI’s
What are Valium, Xanax and Librium considered?
Tranquilizers
Why would you get put on SSRI’s if you’re given medicine for the first time for depression?
Most commonly used, and usually works and least amount of side effects
Which neurotransmitters are linked to depression
Serotonin and norepherene
What drug would you go to last due to not being able to mix it?
MAO inhibitors
What is lithium used for?
Bipolar disorder
What are tricyclics and what do they do
They increase levels of norephinpherine serotonin and dopamine
What does MAO stand for
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors
What do MAO inhibitors do?
Inhibit enzyme breakdown
Who is known for psychoanalytic psychotherapy?
Freud
Who is known for humanistic psychotherapy
Rogers
Who is known for Cogntive 1: rational emotive therapy?
Ellis
What is becks approach
Direct therapy, but slowly
Who is known for counterconditioning?
WOLPE
Who is known for operant conditioning
Skinner
