Chapter 15: Treatment and Therapy Flashcards
1700s Mentally ill patients were:
- Bleed
- Chained
- Tortured
- Leeched
Mentally ILL patients were originally thought to be:
Devils, witches, or demons
Problem With Treatment today:
- Confidentiality
- Foster Homes
- Ineffective therapy
- Insurance Coverage
Counseling Psychologists
Deals with Problems not fitting into formal classifications
Clinical psychologists
Deal with emotional problems with Formal classifications
Psychiatrists
Medical Doctor with Special mental disorder training
Psychiatric Social Worker
Mental Health Worker with Social Worker Degree
Psychiatric Nurse
Registered Nurse With Special Education in Psychiatric Medicine
Licensed Professional Counselor
Masters level counselor who works with everyday issues, and other commonly diagnosed issues such as depression or anxiety
Licensed Social Worker
Masters level social worker counsels and helps clients with everyday living
Psychotherapies
Any talk method used to help emotional or psychological problems
Eclectic Approach
A blend of psychotherapy techniques
Psychoanalysis
Founded by Sigmund Freud analyze the psyche using the unconscious (hidden) and repressed
Free Association
Say whatever comes to minds trying to uncover the unconscious
Transference
Transfer emotional conflicts of Past to therapist
Psychodynamic Therapy
Practiced by modern Freud followers
Focuses on relationships or experiences
Humanistic Therapy
Emphasize potential for self-fulfillment, focus on feelings, healing self through awareness and acceptance
Insight Therapies
Aim to improve functioning by increasing awareness of motives and defenses
Person Centered Therapy
Partners to reveal problem, founded by Carl Rodgers
Therapist exhibits genuineness or acceptance
Unconditional Positive Regard
Principle that the person’s feelings and thoughts are accepted for whatever they are
Rewards the statement and repeats to prevent judgements
Gestalt Therapy
Active treatment designed to help clients get in touch with genuine feelings and disown foreign ones
Behavioral Therapy
Uses principles of learning to alter the person’s actions or behavior
Counter conditioning
Trigger new responses through unwanted stimuli
Exposure Therapies
Treat anxiety by exposing people to what they fear or avoid
Systematic Desensitization
Step-by-step therapy increases the patient’s anxiety, counters it with relaxation in sequence
Aversive Conditioning
Unpleasantness is associated with behavior to make extinct
Token Economy
Rewards for desired acts are accumulated
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Thought are used to control emotions and behaviors (new ways of thinking)
Internalized Sentences
What own inner voices say
Awfulize
See things in worst possible light
Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Therapy
Therapist helps client to notice and change negative thoughts associated with anxiety and depression
Group Therapy
Gain insight by communicating in shared setting
Encounter Groups
Forced to share inner conflicts and emotions, must confront each other ( not controlled )
Three most Common Needs for Therapy
- depression
- divorce
- children
Biomedical Therapies
alter brain’s function by changing Chemistry
Psychopharmacology
study of drug effects on mind and behavior
Drug Therapy
use to relieve psychological symptoms
Antipsychotic
alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia
Anti-anxiety drugs
suppresses Central Nervous System
Antidepressants
Selective serotonin recessive Inhibitors
Mood-Stabilizing Drugs
Maintains a regular level between depressed and manic
Electroconvulsive therapy
shock to the brain to reduce symptoms of mental disturbance
Psychosurgery
removes or destroys brain tissue to make calmer and freer of symptoms
Prefrontal Lobotomy
destroy/disconnect frontal lobe
over 50,000 performed in 15 yrs
Philippe Pineal
Freed Patients from chains
Philippe Pineal
Freed Patients from chains
Dorothea Dix
Pushed to no longer treat patients as prisoners
Dorothea Dix
Pushed to no longer treat patients as prisoners