L10: TREATMENT- PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Question 1

GOALS OF TREATMENT

Answer 1

Provide relief from distress
Increase self awareness and insight into problems
Teach coping skills to manage symptoms and distress
Identify and resolve the root causes of the disorder

Question 2

THEORIES: PSYCHODYNAMIC

Answer 2

Assumptions: unconscious conflicts originate from early life experience, evoke defence mechanisms (repression, denial and displacement) that cause observable behaviours
Aim: identify these conscious conflicts, bring them into conscious awareness (increasing insight), and help client to develop strategies to resolve those conflicts

Question 3

TECHNIQUES OF PSYCHODYNAMIC

Answer 3

Psychoanalysis a form of psychodynamic therapy
Techniques: free association (read out words and then say frist thing comes into head), dream analysis
Structure: variable, could be 3-5 sessions per week over many years

Question 4

THEORIES: BEHAVIOURS

Answer 4

Assumptions: psychological disorders arise from faulty learning-classical and operant (instrumental)conditioning
Aim: use associative learning principles, particularly extinction, to unlearn or relearn associations

Question 5

TECHNIQUES: BEHAVIOURAL

Answer 5

Classical
Flooding or systematic desensitisation for anxiety disorders
Aversion therapy for addiction and sexual offending: associate violence with pleasure, teach to associate with a negative one instead, rapid smoking
Operant
Contingency management for addiction- provide regular urine samples after being treated for addiction, samples test negative they get money
Response shaping for learning disabilities- reward desirable behaviours

Question 6

CBT

Answer 6

Assumptions: distorted ways of thinking and cog biases cause symptoms of psych disorders
Aims: change the dysfunctional cognitions

Question 7

DYSFUNCTIONAL COGNITIONS

Answer 7

Selective abstraction- draw conclusions on the bases of just one element of a situation
Minimisation-downplaying positivities
Personalisation- personal