Chp16-P575-580 Flashcards
Biomedical Therapy?
Treatment for a psychological disorder that alters brain functioninng with chemical or physcial interventions such as drug therapy, surgery or electroconvulsive therapy.
Psychotherapy?
Any of a group of therapies, used to treat psychological disorders, that focus on changing faulty behaviours, thoughts, perceptions and emotions that may be associated with specific disorders.
Clinical social worker?
A mental health professional whose specialised training prepares him or her to consider the social context of people’s problems.
Pastoral counsellor?
A member of a religious order who specialises in the treatment of psychological disorders, often combining spirituality with practical problem solving.
Clinical psychologist?
An individual who has earned a doctorate in psychology and whose training is in the assessment and treatment of psychological problems.
Counselling psychologist?
A psychologist who specialises in giving guidance in areas such as vocational selections, school problems, drug abuse and marital conflict.
Psychiatrist?
An individual who has obtained an MD degree and also has completed postdoctoral specialty training in mental and emotional disorders; a psychiatrist may prescribe medications for the treatment of psychological disorders.
Psychoanalyst?
An individual who has earned either a PhD or an MD degree and has completed postgraduate training in the Freudian approach to understanding and treating mental disorders.
Patient?
The term used by those who take a biomedical approach to the treatment of psychological problems to describe the person being treated.
Freudian approach?
Freuds approach to psychology was the behavioral approach he argued that only directly observable behaviour is worthy of study as he believed that all behaviour is learned from the environment and used scientific experiments to provide his evidence and introspection which means thinking about oneself to uncover the hidden motives that underlie human behaviour.
Client?
The term used by clinicans who think of psychological disorders as prorblems in living, and not as mental illnesses, to describe those being treated.
Deinstitutionalisation?
The movement to treat people with psychological disorders in the community rather than in psychiatric hospitals.
Psychoanalysis?
The form of psychodynamic therapy developed by Freud; an intensive prolonged technique for exploring unconscious motivations and conflicts in neurotic, anxiety-ridden individuals.
Insight Theraphy?
A technique by which the therapist guides a patient toward discovering insights between present symptons and past origins.
Free Association?
The therapeutic method in which a patient gives a running account of thoughts, wishes, physical sensations and mental images as they occur.
