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History and Modern Psychotherapy Flashcards

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psychotherapy

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how people develop distress and how to deal with it

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foundations of psychotherapy

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pre-christian retreats centers, tribal ceremonies, religious healing

hellenist physicians
- Hippocrates
- “do no harm”
- result of organic processes

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2 people who were integral in early interest in the unconscious (17th-19th century)

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Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz
- ahead of his time
- subliminal aim of study

Franz Anton Mesmer
- pioneer of hypnotherapy

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4 key components of psychotherapy

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patient/therapist rapport

importance of therapist characteristics and qualities

patient confidence in treatment

concept of spontaneous remission

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3 roads of psychotherapy

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psychologist-philosophers

natural science empiricists (lab)
- observe and record information that becomes knowledge

clinician-researchers

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3 natural science empiricists

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Gustav T Fechner and Herman von Helmholtz
- 19th century
- studying unconscious

Emil Kraepelin
- 19-20th century
- first DSM
- saw disconnect b/t lab findings/research and what’s happening in treatment

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how was the first DSM organized?

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classify: cause and course of disorder

establish benchmarks and easier to prove treatments are helping

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3 psychologist-philosophers

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arthur schopenhauer
- driven by blind, irrational fears
- The World as Will and Representation (1819)

carl gustav carus
- levels of unconscious that interact with others/role of the unconscious in communication

neitzsche
- we lie to ourselves more than we lie to others

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biological sciences claim that the ____ and _____ can be separated when in reality they can’t

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mind; body

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epigenetics

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study of gene expression that is altered by environment and input of stimuli coming in to us

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bio-psycho-social approach

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not separating these three components, understand how these components work together

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cultural factors are a _____ influence in psychology

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big

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4 cultural factors in psychotherapy

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demographics

culture

language shape experience

stigma

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evidence-based treatment

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what works, why it works and for whom it works

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“theory of personality”

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plain terms: what causes distress/why might someone develop distress?

continuum of health to illness

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2 important questions when diagnosing

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frequent or occasional?

interfering w/ function?

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with diagnosing, think about these features:

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frequency
intensity
disruption
distress
clustering of symptoms

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can be more diversity with symptoms ______ group than _ groups

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within; 2

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the DSM is an ________ document that _____ overtime

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evolving; changes

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DSM is influenced by:

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personal biases
cultural differences
determining how we handle new emergent disorders
socio-economic status
select group of authors/studied participants
mistakes (human error)

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_____ diagnoses can severely impact peoples’ lives

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wrong

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say this instead of “minority groups”

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marginalized/minoritized groups

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landmark study for homosexuality

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evelyn hooker found no difference with people living straight or gay lives

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who spoke at 1972 APA convention in disguise due to fear or reputation being tarnished for sexuality?

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John Freyer

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3 stages of changes for homosexuality in DSM

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  1. reclassified homosexuality as “sexual orientation disturbance”
  2. diagnosis of “ego-dystonic homosexuality” in DSM III
    - gay = not disorder but disorder arises when you do not accept sexuality
  3. diagnosis replaced by “sexual disorder not otherwise specified”
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what is race?

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constructed by people for a purpose

colonialism - creating in/out groups, basis was idea of hierarchy

The Great Chain of Being
- categorize all things into hierarchy

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race is a ______

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construct

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problemitization with racism in early psychology

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groups/individuals made into a problem for a study

reinforces there is a problem with out group that needs to be fixed

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eugenics with racism in early psychology

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goal: creating superior races/white supremacy

forced sterilizations
- criteria: intellectual disability, based on IQ tests licensed psychologists can only administer
- IQ tests shown to measure differences in different groups measure exposure, not intelligence

example of pseudoscience

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pseudoscience

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things presented as scientific but not actually

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fundamental belief for racism in early psychotherapy

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people had natural state of enslavement

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2 disorders that used pseudoscience to justify slavery

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drapetomania

diasthesia aethiopica

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drapetomania

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run away slave disorder/urge to run away

treatment: physical punishment

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diasthesia aethiopica

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disorder of poor work ethic

treatment: physical punishment

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institutionalization: racism in early psychotherapy

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late 1860’s, first institution segregated forming Jim Crow

black patients forced into labor

fake disorders to continue institutionalization

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racism in modern psychotherapy

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psychiatric diagnoses used to combat civil rights movement
- took existing diagnoses and changed how they applied them
- ex. schizophrenia: went from being applied to white house wives to black men as “protest psychosis” (delusional anti-whiteness after listening to groups, needed treatment for this)

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deinstitutionalization

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closing institutions that used unfair black labor

made into prisons

systematic –> large % of prisons are black people

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anti-racism in psychology

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Drs. Mamie Phipps Clark & Kenneth Clark Doll Study
- which doll is better, prettier, smarter, etc.
- found: white dolls are more positively received with black kids, evidence for internalized racism
- formed scientific basis for Brown v. Board of Ed

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