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Chapter 15: Treatment and Therapy Flashcards

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1700s Mentally ill patients were:

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  • Bleed
  • Chained
  • Tortured
  • Leeched
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Mentally ILL patients were originally thought to be:

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Devils, witches, or demons

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Problem With Treatment today:

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  • Confidentiality
  • Foster Homes
  • Ineffective therapy
  • Insurance Coverage
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Counseling Psychologists

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Deals with Problems not fitting into formal classifications

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Clinical psychologists

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Deal with emotional problems with Formal classifications

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Psychiatrists

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Medical Doctor with Special mental disorder training

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Psychiatric Social Worker

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Mental Health Worker with Social Worker Degree

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Psychiatric Nurse

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Registered Nurse With Special Education in Psychiatric Medicine

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Licensed Professional Counselor

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Masters level counselor who works with everyday issues, and other commonly diagnosed issues such as depression or anxiety

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Licensed Social Worker

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Masters level social worker counsels and helps clients with everyday living

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Psychotherapies

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Any talk method used to help emotional or psychological problems

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Eclectic Approach

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A blend of psychotherapy techniques

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Psychoanalysis

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Founded by Sigmund Freud analyze the psyche using the unconscious (hidden) and repressed

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Free Association

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Say whatever comes to minds trying to uncover the unconscious

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Transference

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Transfer emotional conflicts of Past to therapist

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Psychodynamic Therapy

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Practiced by modern Freud followers

Focuses on relationships or experiences

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Humanistic Therapy

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Emphasize potential for self-fulfillment, focus on feelings, healing self through awareness and acceptance

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Insight Therapies

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Aim to improve functioning by increasing awareness of motives and defenses

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Person Centered Therapy

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Partners to reveal problem, founded by Carl Rodgers

Therapist exhibits genuineness or acceptance

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Unconditional Positive Regard

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Principle that the person’s feelings and thoughts are accepted for whatever they are
Rewards the statement and repeats to prevent judgements

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Gestalt Therapy

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Active treatment designed to help clients get in touch with genuine feelings and disown foreign ones

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Behavioral Therapy

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Uses principles of learning to alter the person’s actions or behavior

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Counter conditioning

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Trigger new responses through unwanted stimuli

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Exposure Therapies

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Treat anxiety by exposing people to what they fear or avoid

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Systematic Desensitization

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Step-by-step therapy increases the patient’s anxiety, counters it with relaxation in sequence

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Aversive Conditioning

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Unpleasantness is associated with behavior to make extinct

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Token Economy

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Rewards for desired acts are accumulated

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

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Thought are used to control emotions and behaviors (new ways of thinking)

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Internalized Sentences

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What own inner voices say

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Awfulize

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See things in worst possible light

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Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Therapy

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Therapist helps client to notice and change negative thoughts associated with anxiety and depression

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Group Therapy

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Gain insight by communicating in shared setting

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Encounter Groups

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Forced to share inner conflicts and emotions, must confront each other ( not controlled )

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Three most Common Needs for Therapy

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  • depression
  • divorce
  • children
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Biomedical Therapies

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alter brain’s function by changing Chemistry

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Psychopharmacology

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study of drug effects on mind and behavior

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Drug Therapy

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use to relieve psychological symptoms

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Antipsychotic

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alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia

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Anti-anxiety drugs

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suppresses Central Nervous System

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Antidepressants

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Selective serotonin recessive Inhibitors

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Mood-Stabilizing Drugs

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Maintains a regular level between depressed and manic

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Electroconvulsive therapy

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shock to the brain to reduce symptoms of mental disturbance

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Psychosurgery

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removes or destroys brain tissue to make calmer and freer of symptoms

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Prefrontal Lobotomy

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destroy/disconnect frontal lobe

over 50,000 performed in 15 yrs

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Philippe Pineal

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Freed Patients from chains

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Philippe Pineal

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Freed Patients from chains

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Dorothea Dix

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Pushed to no longer treat patients as prisoners

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Dorothea Dix

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Pushed to no longer treat patients as prisoners

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