module 15 : treatment of disorders Flashcards
treatment requires (3)
- Objectivity
- Regulated by license boards
- Code of conduct: Ethical and protected
treatment (def)
variety of strategies to help people manage
therapy
guides to be reflectante and introspective to find their own awareness
who provides treatment? (6)
- psychiatrists
- psychologist
- clinical psychologists
- counselling psychologist
- school psychologist
- clinical social workers
psychiatrists
physicians specialized in psychologie and psychiatry
- they and psychiatric nurse practitioners can prescribe medication
psychologists (+3 main areas of specializations)
(Ph.D + Psy. D.)
can provide psychotherapy (talk therapy), may conduct psychological research
1. Clinical psychologists
2. Counseling psychologists
3. Scholl psychologists
Clinical social workers
helps with social networks
therapists
Master degree
- provides counselling services
- or mental health counselling (lifespan)
clinical psychologists
treat people with serious mental illnesses (who do not require meds)
counseling psychologist
work with people who need life-skills training
trepanation
removing portion of skull
institutionalizing (2 ppl)
asylums
1. Phillipe Pixeln
2. Doretha Dix
they argued for more humain treatment and allowing them to return to society
medical model (3)
- medicine drastically changed treatment = end of institutionalizing
- do not include environmental factors
- medical cure somatic, then application of model to mental conditions
efficacy (evidence based treatment)
the ability of research to produce desired outcomes based on research protocols that are strictly controlled (laboratory)
effectiveness (evidence based treatment)
the ability of research to produce desired outcomes based on researched applied in real world setting and population
bio psychological model
because the medical model does not take in account social or cultural factors during diagnosis and treatment
psychopharmacotherapy (3 tools)
- Drugs (psychoactive or psychotropic : target neurotransmitters)
- Surgery
- Electrical stimulation
psychoactive drugs (4 types + symptoms)
- antipsychotic drugs
- antidepressant medication
- anxiolytics (anti anxiety)
- mood stabilizing medication
Symptoms : disordered thinking, delusions, hallucinations
antipsychotic drugs (2 types)
- typical antipsychotics
- atypical antipsychotics
typical antipsychotics
- reduce symptoms of psychosis (hallucinations, disorder thinking and delusions) by reducing dopamine activity
- cocaine and amphetamine works against (stimulant drugs)