Intro to Psych: Unit 4 Chapter 15 Flashcards
What are the 3 types of Treatment?
- Psychotherapies
- Family Therapy - Behavior Therapies
- Desensitization - Biomedical Therapies
- Medications
What’s the biggest roadblock in the treatment process?
People feel “weak” for getting mental health treatment.
Define: Psychiatrists
Type of Medical Doctor, prescribe & treat psychological disorders.
Define: Clinical Psychologists
Provide psychotherapy (only 5 states can prescribe)
Define: Clinical Social Workers
Have masters degree, providing mental-health/healthcare services such as medicare benefits info.
Define: Psychiatric Nurses
- Masters or Bachelors degree
Play a role in hospitals inpatient treatment.
Define: Counselor
Typically work in schools, colleges, or human services departments.
Masters degree and usually focus on vocational or marital counseling.
What is Psychotherapy/Insight Therapies?
Holding verbal interactions to enhance clients’ self-knowledge.
What did Freud say NEUROSIS (anxiety) was caused by?
Unconscious Conflicts
In psychoanalysis, the analyst seeks to recover ______, _______, and ______.
UNCONSCIOUS CONFLICTS, MOTIVES, AND DEFENSES.
What are some Psychoanalysis Treatments?
- Free Association (client rambles & yaps)
- Dream Analysis
- Resistance (unconscious defense maneuvers like dodging the issue in a way)
- Transference (Relate to the therapist and start projecting behaviors onto them)
What is incongruence?
When your real self and ideal self aren’t matching up.
What is Client-centered Therapy and WHO created it?
Focuses on providing a supportive, emotional climate with clients.
CARL ROGERS
What are Rogers 3 main elements to creating a proper atmosphere in Therapy?
- Genuineness (Being honest w/ Client)
- Unconditional Positive Regard (Accepting Client/not Judging)
- Empathy (Understanding Client’s POV)
What is Group Therapy and what are some STRENGTHS?
Treatment of several clients in a group (4-15).
- Less cost
- Relatable
- Work on Social Skills
MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT IS THAT MEMBERS PROVIDE ACCEPTANCE AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FOR ONE ANOTHER.
What is Behavior Therapy and what are the 2 main components.
Behavior Therapy is using learning and conditioning to change maladaptive behaviors.
- Behavior is a product of learning
- What is learned can be unlearned
What is Systematic Desensitization (Classical Conditioning) and who created it?
A slow form of exposure therapy in which they are exposed to their phobia while also being exposed to relaxation techniques
HIERARCHY OF FEARS EXPOSURE + DEEP RELAXATION
Joseph Wolp
What are the 3 steps to Systematic Desensitization?
- Identify the fear
- Train them in relaxation (gradual)
- Keep them relaxed through exposure to hierarchy of fears. (least anxious-most anxious events)
What is Aversion Therapy (Operant Conditioning)?
Associating an unwanted behavior with an unwanted stimulus to decrease the behavior.
What is Social Skills Training (Observational Learning)?
Helps w/ improving social interactions and communication
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy, what kind of therapy is it, and what are the goals?
Recognizing and changing negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs.
INSIGHT THERAPY.
Recognize negative thoughts, change them, do “HW” to stick with new form of optimism.
What are the 3 biomedical approaches to psychotherapy?
- Drug Therapy
- ECT (Shock Therapy)
- Brain Stimulation
(THESE ARE IN ORDER)
What are anti-anxieties and the two main ones?
Highly addictive drugs (tranquilizers) that relieve anxiety by targeting GABA neurotransmitter.
VALIUM AND XANEX
What are antipsychotics and what are the two main ones?
Drugs that reduce psychotic symptoms, typically used for schizophrenia, that targets the Dopamine hormone.
THORAZINE AND HALDOL
What is a big side effect of antipsychotic drugs?
Drowsiness, Muscular Rigidity, and Tardive Dyskinesia.
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
An incurable disorder marked by tic-like movements or tremors of the mouth, face, hands, etc.
What are antidepressants and 3 examples?
Gradually elevate mood and bring people out of depression by targeting serotonin.
PROZAC, PAXIL, ZOLOFT
What are SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors)?
Increases seratonin through blocking reuptake/reabsorption of seratonin
What’s a huge side effect of antidepressants?
Increase in suicidal thoughts – More prominent in children.
What are SNRIs?
Increase serotonin and norepinephrine levels by blocking the reuptake of both neurotransmitters
What are Mood Stabilizers and examples?
Commonly used to treat Bipolar Disorder, successfully prevents manic episodes & depression.
LITHIUM AND VALPROATE
BIOMEDICAL TREATMENTS: Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Mild shocks to relieve mental health symptoms in the brain.
- Used when their body is resistant to treatment and nothing is working & symptoms are very severe.
BIOMEDICAL TREATMENTS: Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
INVASIVE PROCEDURE in which they open up patients brain, drill into skull, implant electrodes, and dial up electric voltage to change patients mood within SECONDS.
- Patient is AWAKE during this process
BIOMEDICAL TREATMENTS: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
A non-invasive treatment that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate SPECIFIC areas of the brain
- Also for treatment-resistant patients
