Final

Question 1

What are some symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 1

Delusions- false beliefs that persists despite evidence
Hallucinations
Negative symptoms- reduced emotional expressiveness and speech
Positive symptoms- delusions and hallucinations, disorganized thoughts and behaviors

Question 2

What are the causes of schizophrenia

Answer 2

Genetics, age of father, viral infection, excess dopamine, excessive pruning of synapses

Question 3

Personality disorders

Answer 3

Inflexible patterns of thoughts, emotions, behaviors and interpersonal functioning that are congruent. Think everybody else is the problem

Question 4

Antisocial personality disorder

Answer 4

Psycho/sociopath
A pattern of violating the rights of others. Lies, cheats, manipulates, and steals. No remorse of causing pain. Ted bunny
Men, high testosterone, low serotonin and pulse

Question 5

Borderline personality disorder

Answer 5

Unstable relationships, emotions, and self image. Attempts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Caused by disruption in attachment. Women, abandonment

Question 6

What are two insight based psychotherapies

Answer 6

Psychoanalysis and client centered therapy

Question 7

What is meant by insight in relation to therapy

Answer 7

Insight revolves unconcious conflicts and helps with self understanding

Question 8

Who developed and what is psychoanalysis?

Answer 8

Sigmund freud

Involves free association and dream analysis

Question 9

Resistance

Answer 9

The patients conscious or unconscious attempt to block the process of revealing repressed memories and conflicts

Question 10

Transference

Answer 10

When a patient unconsciously responds to therapist as though the therapist were a significant person in the patients life, often as a parent

Question 11

Who developed and what is client centered therapy

Answer 11

Carl Rodgers
Stresses insight and self understanding
Therapist strives to stay neutral, non directive, genuine, and accepting

Question 12

Psychotropic medications

Answer 12

Drugs that alter mental functions, alleviate psychological symptoms, and are used to treat mental disorders

Question 13

Schizophrenia

Answer 13

Distorted beliefs perceptions, and thought processes, loss of grip on reality

Question 14

Antipsychotic medication

Answer 14

do not cure schizophrenia. Early antipsychotic medication helped with the positive symptoms of schizophrenias but often resulted in tardive dyskinesia which are characterized by severe facial tics and other involuntary movements.

Question 15

Antidepressants-

Answer 15

Antidepressants- Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil are a class of antidepressants called select serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRI’s.

Question 16

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) -

Answer 16

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) - used primarily as a treatment for major depression. A common side effect is temporary or permanent memory loss of events leading up to the ECT session.

Question 17

Lithium

Answer 17

Mood stabilizers

Question 18

Group therapy

Answer 18

Group Therapy- useful for clients to interact with others in a safe supportive environment. The therapist can see their clients interactions with others.

Question 19

Cognitive Therapy-

Answer 19

developed by Aaron Beck-wanted to change past, present, future negative thoughts-based on his work with depressed clients. Cognitive Therapy (CT) is based on the idea that psychological problems are caused by irrational or illogical patterns of thinking.
Changing the way u think

Question 20

Eclectic approach

Answer 20

Eclectic Approach- most therapists identify themselves as eclectic more than any other approach. Eclectic psychotherapists. Tailor their therapy approach to the problems of the person seeking help.

Question 21

Does psychotherapy work

Answer 21

After 8 weeks 50% improvements

After 6 months 75% improvements

Question 22

Aversive therapy

Answer 22

Used to create and unpleasant conditioned response to a harmful or unwanted stimulus.
Used for bedwetting, nail biting, bedwetting.
The drug Antabuse is used to create nausea and illness as an aversive therapy for alcohol addiction.
Aversive conditioning is not usually very effective in producing the desired results.

Question 23

Systematic desensization

Answer 23

Systematic Desensization- Used to get over fears, phobias and anxieties.
First the therapist and client create an anxiety hierarchy with a list of specific scenes related to the fear from lowest anxiety provoking to the highest anxiety provoking.
Therapist learns progressive relaxation, relaxing entire body.
The patient develops a control scene that is relaxing such as lying on the beach.
Therapist and patient proceed up the anxiety hierarchy relaxing when anxiety is reached.
Systematic desensitization may be combined with observational learning.

Question 24

Progressive relaxation

Answer 24

Relaxing whole body