Chapter 16: Treatment of Disorders Flashcards
What are some barriers as to why people do not seek treatment?
- Cost, financial but also finding transportation, and daycare etc.
- People might not know what treatment options there are
Psychological Treatment
With clinician
environment is used to shape persons brain and behaviour
Biological Treatment
Brain is treated with drugs, surgery or other direct intervention
Psychological and Biological Treatment can…
Be combined to treat an individual.
Interaction between clinician and someone suffering from a psychological problem
Psychotherapy
Eclectic Psychotherapy
Therapy form that depends on client and problem, and draws tehniques from different forms of therapy
Psychoanalysis
Goal is for the client to understand the unconcious in a process called developing insight
This therapy encourages individuals to use understandings of childhood events to develop insights to their problems
Psychodynamic Psychotherapies
Discovering the unconcious
Insight
Reluctance to cooperate with treatment for fear of confronting unpleasant unconcious material
Resistance
Event that occurs in psychoanalysis when the clinicial begins to assume major significance in the clients life
Transference
Humanistic and Existential Therapies
Assuming that human nature is generally positive and psychological problems stem from feelings of loneliness and alienation
Person-Client centered therapy
Assumes that all individuals have a tendency towards growth
Helping the client become more aware of his/hers thoughts, behaviours and experiences and taking responsibility for them
Gestalt Therapy
John B Watson founded…
Behaviour Therapy
Behaviour Therapy
Assumes that disordered behaviour is learned and needs to be changed to constructive behaviours
Involves giving clients tokens for desired behaviour which can later be traded for rewards
Token Economy
Cognitive Therapy
Helping a client identify and correct any distorted thinking about themselves or others
Therapeutic Approach that teaches clients to question automatic beliefs and assumptions that lead to negative thinking
Cognitive Restructuring
Exposure Therapy
Involves confronting a emotion-arousing stimulus directly and repeatedly
Mindfulness Meditation
Teaches individual to be fully present in each moment , and to be aware of thoughts and feelings and to detect symptoms before they become a problem
Cognitive Therapy
problem-focused, action orientated
Self Help and Support Groups
Involves discussion or internet chat groups that focus on a particular disorder or experiences with others struggling with the same (example, AA)
Drug treatment targets specific ____ in the brain
Neurotransmitters that are believed to cause mental disorders
Psychopharmacology
Study of drug effects on psychological states and symptoms
Medications that are used to treat schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders
Antipsychotic drugs
Conventional anti-psychotics
Work by blocking dopamine receptors, good for positive symptoms
These psychotic drugs stop seretonin and dopamine receptors work well for negative or positive symptoms
Atypical antipsychotics
Antianxiety Medications
drugs that help reduce anxiety symptoms
Antidepressants
class of drugs that help lift a persons mood include (MAOI,SSRI, SNRI)
Used to treat bipolar disorders, prescribed to suppress mood swings between mania and depression
(lithium)
Mood stabilizers
Alternative medications include:
herbal medicines, megavitamins,homeopathic remedies
Repeated exposure to bright light
Used for people having seasonal depressive disorder
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Treatment that involves a mild seizure by delivering an electric shock to the brain, used to treat depressive or manic disorders
Treatment involving placing a powerful magnet over a persons scalp which alters neuronal activity in the brain
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
Psychosurgery
Surgical distruction of specific brain areas
used to treat specific ocd disorders as a last resort
Deep Brain Stimulation
Combines use of psychosurgery and electrical currentd
Tendency of symptoms to return to their mean or average level
Natural Improvement
Inert substance or placebo effect that has been applied with the expectation that a healing response will be produced
Placebo Effects
Reconstructive Memory
When the clients motivation to get well causes errors in memory for the original symptoms
