Chapter 16: Treatment of Disorders

Question 1

What are some barriers as to why people do not seek treatment?

Answer 1

• Cost, financial but also finding transportation, and daycare etc.
• People might not know what treatment options there are

Question 2

Psychological Treatment

Answer 2

With clinician

environment is used to shape persons brain and behaviour

Question 3

Biological Treatment

Answer 3

Brain is treated with drugs, surgery or other direct intervention

Question 4

Psychological and Biological Treatment can…

Answer 4

Be combined to treat an individual.

Question 5

Interaction between clinician and someone suffering from a psychological problem

Answer 5

Psychotherapy

Question 6

Eclectic Psychotherapy

Answer 6

Therapy form that depends on client and problem, and draws tehniques from different forms of therapy

Question 7

Psychoanalysis

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Goal is for the client to understand the unconcious in a process called developing insight

Question 8

This therapy encourages individuals to use understandings of childhood events to develop insights to their problems

Answer 8

Psychodynamic Psychotherapies

Question 9

Discovering the unconcious

Answer 9

Insight

Question 10

Reluctance to cooperate with treatment for fear of confronting unpleasant unconcious material

Answer 10

Resistance

Question 11

Event that occurs in psychoanalysis when the clinicial begins to assume major significance in the clients life

Answer 11

Transference

Question 12

Humanistic and Existential Therapies

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Assuming that human nature is generally positive and psychological problems stem from feelings of loneliness and alienation

Question 13

Person-Client centered therapy

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Assumes that all individuals have a tendency towards growth

Question 14

Helping the client become more aware of his/hers thoughts, behaviours and experiences and taking responsibility for them

Answer 14

Gestalt Therapy

Question 15

John B Watson founded…

Answer 15

Behaviour Therapy

Question 16

Behaviour Therapy

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Assumes that disordered behaviour is learned and needs to be changed to constructive behaviours

Question 17

Involves giving clients tokens for desired behaviour which can later be traded for rewards

Answer 17

Token Economy

Question 18

Cognitive Therapy

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Helping a client identify and correct any distorted thinking about themselves or others

Question 19

Therapeutic Approach that teaches clients to question automatic beliefs and assumptions that lead to negative thinking

Answer 19

Cognitive Restructuring

Question 20

Exposure Therapy

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Involves confronting a emotion-arousing stimulus directly and repeatedly

Question 21

Mindfulness Meditation

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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

Question 22

Cognitive Therapy

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problem-focused, action orientated

Question 23

Self Help and Support Groups

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Involves discussion or internet chat groups that focus on a particular disorder or experiences with others struggling with the same (example, AA)

Question 24

Drug treatment targets specific ____ in the brain

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Neurotransmitters that are believed to cause mental disorders

Question 25

Psychopharmacology

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Study of drug effects on psychological states and symptoms

Question 26

Medications that are used to treat schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders

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Antipsychotic drugs

Question 27

Conventional anti-psychotics

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Work by blocking dopamine receptors, good for positive symptoms

Question 28

These psychotic drugs stop seretonin and dopamine receptors work well for negative or positive symptoms

Answer 28

Atypical antipsychotics

Question 29

Antianxiety Medications

Answer 29

drugs that help reduce anxiety symptoms

Question 30

Antidepressants

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``` class of drugs that help lift a persons mood include (MAOI,SSRI, SNRI) ```

Question 31

Used to treat bipolar disorders, prescribed to suppress mood swings between mania and depression (lithium)

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Mood stabilizers

Question 32

Alternative medications include:

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herbal medicines, megavitamins,homeopathic remedies

Question 33

Repeated exposure to bright light

Answer 33

Used for people having seasonal depressive disorder

Question 34

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

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Treatment that involves a mild seizure by delivering an electric shock to the brain, used to treat depressive or manic disorders

Question 35

Treatment involving placing a powerful magnet over a persons scalp which alters neuronal activity in the brain

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

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Psychosurgery

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Surgical distruction of specific brain areas | used to treat specific ocd disorders as a last resort

Question 37

Deep Brain Stimulation

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Combines use of psychosurgery and electrical currentd

Question 38

Tendency of symptoms to return to their mean or average level

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Natural Improvement

Question 39

Inert substance or placebo effect that has been applied with the expectation that a healing response will be produced

Answer 39

Placebo Effects

Question 40

Reconstructive Memory

Answer 40

When the clients motivation to get well causes errors in memory for the original symptoms