Chapter 15: Treatment for Mental Disorders Flashcards
What is “Man Therapy”
- originated as a suicide prevention campaign that attempted to get men to go to therapy
- severe stigma for mental health and men
Gender differences in approaches to therapy
- the image of therapy is incompatible with the male gender role
- most men that go to therapy are “wife mandated referrals”
- men are satisfied with therapy the problem Is getting them there
What is Psychoanalysis
- talk based therapy
- developed by Sigmund Freud
- based on the assumption that psychopathology arises due to repression of problems to the unconscious
- this therapy helps the patient to bring the unconscious to the conscious
What is Client- Centered therapy
- Carl Rogers
- distortions in self-concept arise from lack of acceptance of true feelings
- helps the client figure out the problems
What is Cognitive Therapy
- focusses on thought processes, attack cognitions
- assumes that thoughts are the source of problems and changing them is the solution
- Albert Ellis rational-emotive therapy (change irrational beliefs)
- Aaron Beck cognitive therapy for depression
What is Behaviour Modification Therapy
- focuses on behaviour and its consequences
- strives to replace inappropriate or deviant behaviours with other, healthier behaviour patterns
- operant conditioning
- good for helping phobias
What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- variation of behaviour modification
- changing thought patterns to change behaviour
Medical therapies for Psychopathological disorders
- assumes that is it coming from something physical
- controversial- have improvements but are a serious risk, diminish symptoms but do not cure
Drug therapies
- psychoactive drugs for disorders
- more in women
- 80% of people in therapy received medication
What is Electroconvulsive therapy
- delivering electric shock that induces convulsions (depression and bi-polar)
- can have serious side effects (memory loss)
What are the APA Task Force on Sex Bias and Sex-Role Stereotyping Four Biases
- the sexist use of psychoanalytic concepts (men are the standard and female development as a inferior variant)
- fostering traditional sex roles
- devaluing women’s potential
- viewing women as sex objects (Bias can be seen in therapy by therapist promoting gender roles)
What is Feminist Therapy
- traced back to the 1970s and the women’s rights movements
- criticizes traditional therapy (traditional roles, power in maintaining status quo for women)
What are the four principles of Feminist Therapy
- personal / social identities intersect ( several social identities)
- The personal is political (problems are a reflection of the wider society)
- Therapists and clients should form an egalitarian relationship (equal power)
- Women’s perspectives are valued (encourage the female point of view)
Clients of Feminist Therapy
- white middle-class women
- 24% of male therapists identify as feminist therapists
Therapy with Men
- less often than with women
- male gender role can cause problems that therapy can help
- call it coaching or workshops
