Chapter 15: Therapy

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Psychotherapy

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techniques employed to improve psychological functioning and promote adjustment to life
Ex. Talking with a therapist

Question 1

Lobotomy

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Outmoded medical procedure for mental disorders, which involves cutting nerve pathways between the frontal lobe’s and the Thalamus and hypothalamus
Ex. Cutting

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Psychoanalysis

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Freudian therapy designed to bring unconscious conflicts which usually date back to early childhood experience into consciousness; also Freud’s theory medical school of thought emphasizing unconscious process
Ex. Getting abused as a child

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Free Association

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In psychoanalysis, reporting whatever comes to mind without monitoring its contents
Ex. Saying everything

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Dream analysis

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In psychoanalysis interpreting the underlying true meaning of dreams to reveal unconscious process
Ex. The symbols in your dreams

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Resistance

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In psychoanalysis, the person’s inability or unwillingness to discuss or reveal certain memories, thoughts, motives, or experiences
Ex. Not sharing about child abuse

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Transference

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In psychoanalysis the patient may displace or transfer unconscious feelings about a significant person in his or her life onto the therapist
Ex. Falling in love with the therapist

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Interpretation

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A psychoanalyst explanation of the patients free associations, dreams, resistance, and transparence; more generally, any statement by therapist that presents a patient problem in a new way
Ex. The hidden conflicts found

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Psychodynamic theory

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A brief or, more directive, and more modern form of psychoanalyst that focuses on conscious processes and current problems
Ex. More face to face contact

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Cognitive therapy

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Therapy that treats problem behaviors and mental processes by focusing on faulty thought processes and believes
Ex. Looking at beliefs

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Self talk

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Internal dialogue; the things people say to themselves when they interpret events
Ex. TalkiNg in your head

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Cognitive restructuring

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Process in cognitive therapy to change destructive thoughts or inappropriate interpretations
Ex.

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Cognitive behavior therapy

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Combines cognitive therapy changing faulty thinking with behavior therapy changing faulty behaviors
Ex. Change p

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Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)

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Ellis cognitive therapy to eliminate emotional problems through rational examination of irational believes
Ex. Cup is half full not empty

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Humanistic therapy

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Process that focuses on removing obstacles that block personal growth and potential
Ex. Block out the bad

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Client centered therapy

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Rogers therapy emphasizing the clients natural tendency to become healthy and productive; techniques include empathy, unconditional positive regard genuineness and active listening
Ex. The good things

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Empathy

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In Rogerian terms and insightful awareness and ability to share another’s inner experience
Ex. Relating to your sons mistakes as a father

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UnConditional positive regard

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Rogers term for love and acceptance with no contingencies attached
Ex. Love you no matter what

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Genuineness

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In Rogerian terms, authenticity for congruence; the awareness of one’s true inner thoughts and feelings and being able to share them honestly with others
Ex. Really listening

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Active listening

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Listening with total attention to what others are saying; involves reflecting, paraphrasing, and clarifying with the person and says in means
Ex. Totally engaged

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Group therapy

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A number of people meet together to work towards therapeutic goals
Ex. all have same problem

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Self-Help group

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Leaderless or not professionally guided groups in which members assist each other with the Specific problem as an Alcoholics Anonymous
Ex. Alcoholics Anonymous

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Behavior therapy

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Group of techniques based on learning principles used to change maldaptive behaviors
Ex. Problems

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Systematic desensitization

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A gradual process of extinguishing a learned behavior or phobia I working through a hierarchy of fear evoking stimuli by staying deeply relaxed
Ex. Slowly overcoming a fear

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Aversion therapy

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Pairing in the inverted unpleasant stimulus with a maladaptive behavior
Ex. Create anxiety

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Modeling therapy

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Watching imitating models that demonstrate desirable behavior
Ex. An idol

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Biomedical therapy

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Using biological interventions to treat psychological disorders
Ex. Drugs

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Psychopharmacology

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The study of drug effects on mind and behavior

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Anti-anxiety drugs

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Medications used to produce relaxation reducing Anxiety and decrease over arousal in the brain
Ex. Xanax

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Antipsychotic drugs

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Medications used to diminish or lemonade hallucinations, delusions, withdrawal and other symptoms of psychosis
Ex. Stop schizophrenia

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Mood Stabilizer drug

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Medications used to treat the combination of manic episodes and depression characteristics of bipolar disorder
Ex. Lithium

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Anti-depressant drugs

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Medications used to treat depression, summing Anxiety disorders, and certain eating disorders
Ex. Prozac

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Electro conclusive therapy

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Biomedical therapy based on passing electrical currents through the brain; used almost exclusively to treat serious depression when drug therapy fails
Ex. Shock therapy

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Psychosurgery

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Ioperated procedures on the brain designed to relieve severe mental symptoms that have not responded to other forms of treatment
Ex. Surgery

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Tardive dyskinesia

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Movement disorder involving facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic medications
Ex. Effects of schizophrenia

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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

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Bio medical treatment involving repeated pulses of magnetic energy being passed through the brain

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Eclectic approach

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Mining techniques from various theories to find the most appropriate treatment
Ex. Combination