Chapter 16: Treatment (7B) Flashcards
What is behavioural therapy?
The goal of behavioural therapy is to discover specific problem causing behaviours an replace them with healthy behaviours
What is classical conditioning meant to do?
Change a clients dysfunctional reaction to a specific stimuli
What id systematic desensitization used for?
It is effective in treating phobias, PTSD, and asthma attacks
What is aversion therapy/
It increases the anxiety response to harmful stimuli desired by the client (excessive drinking and smoking)
What is operant conditioning?
Consistently provide rewards for desirable behaviour and withhold rewards for undesirable behaviour
- successful in hospitalized psycotic patients
- work best in institutions and schools
What is modeling?
Therapists exhibit appropriate behaviours so client can imitate, refers, and, in or pater behaviours into their lives.
What is social skills training?
Therapists discuss social deficits and role play social situations with the client to model more appropriate social behaviours
What are the strengths of the behavioural approach/
- Widely studied in research and strongly supported
- Effective for us ours problems indulging specific fears, Social deficits, and intellectual disabilities
What are some criticisms to the behavioural model?
- Improvements made are not always maintained
- Not effective when psychological disorders are broad or vague
What are the cognitive views on abnormal behaviour?
Disorders are caused by maladaptive thinking
What is Ellis’s rational emotive therapy?
The goal is to identify irrational assumptions that lead to disordered emotions, behaviours and thinking.
What are some of Ellis’s teqniques?
- point out irrational assumptions
- Model the use of alternative assumptions
- Uses cognitive restructuring
- Effective for anxiety and assertiveness problems
What is Beck’s cognitive therapy?
- Widely used for depression
- Therapists helps clients identity negative thoughts and errors in logic
- Guide them to apply alternate ways of thinking
- About 2/3s of depressed people imporve
- Also used for panic and anxiety disorder
What is the Second wave CB therapies?
- Recognize problematic thoughts as just thoughts
- Clients accept thought rather than judge in or try to eliminate them
- Helpful treatment for generalized anxiety disorder
- Includes mindfulness, acceptance, and midlful mediation
Strengths of the CB therapies?
- Well supported by research
- Good at treating depression, social anxiety, GAD< panic disorder, sexual dysfunctions,and other disorders
Criticisms of thr CB therapies?
- Role of cognition unclear for some disorders
- Unclear wether cognitive features, behavioural fetuses, or a combination are effective
What is the humanistic approach?
They helped clients look at themselves and their situations more accurate and acceptingly. They expect that clients will then be better Abel actualize their full potential as humans
Hat is rogers client centred therapy?
Humanistic therapy designed to help clients experience unconditional positive regard and look at themselves honestly and acceptingly.
What should theorists doing rogers client centred method display?
- unconditional positive regard - total acceptance of client
- Actuate empathy - skillful listening
- Genuineness - sincere communication
What is he result of rogers client centred therapy?
Clients will eventually come to recognize and value their own emotions, thoughts, and behaviours, which helps achieve self-actualization
What is Gestalt therapy?
Humanistic approach that guides clients towards self-acceptance by challenging and frustrating them
What are some tequines included in Geslalt therapy?
Skillful frustration
Role Playing
Rules
What is existential therapy?
Existential theorists encourage clients to accept responsibility for their lives and their problems. They help clients recognize their freedoms that they may choose different paths and live more meaning full lives. They also place great emphasis on the relationship between therapist and client ad try to create an atmosphere of honest, shared learning and growth.
What are the strengths of the humanistic and existential therapies?
- Emphaise aspects of psychology that are mission from other therapies
- Emphasize positive human qualities
What are the criticisms of the humanistic and existential therapies?
Difficult to research, little research has been done
