PSY CHP.16 Flashcards
Psychologists and psychiatrists often blank on the
best route for treatment of mental disorders
disagree
Blank treatments
– Involve use of drugs, electroconvulsive therapy
(ECT), brain surgery or other methods that affect
body or brain chemistry
– Can be effective, because many disorders have a
biological basis
Biological
Biological Treatments - Concerns
* Are you treating the problem or just symptoms?
* Some effects overstated due to blank bias
* Is there a blank effect?
– Meta-analysis indicates for some drugs placebo blank effective
– This doesn’t mean drugs are ineffective, just that
they may not be actually doing what they claim to
be doing.
* Often used instead of costlier, but more effective
non-drug options
publication/placebo/equally
Biological Treatments - Concerns
* Increasing blank-label prescription
* Side effects may feel worse than the disorder symptoms
– Especially bad with Lithium and antipsychotics, leading to high blank and blank rates
– Long-term effects
* A
* D
* T d
off/relapse/dropout/Addiction/Diabetes/Tardive dyskinesia
Biological Treatments
Blank Moniz’ method
– Won 1949 Nobel Prize
Antonio
Blank lobotomy
* Destroys or separates parts of the frontal lobes
* Stops strong emotional reactions, leads to blank affect
* Also can interfere with other frontal lobe functions –
planning, socially appropriate behavior
* 18,000 conducted 1939-51
Frontal/flat
Biological Treatments
*Blank Therapy (ECT)
– Used in cases of severe major
depression
– Ineffective for other conditions
– Initiated by Ugo Cerletti in 1937
– Produces blank amnesia for the
procedure itself
– Widely used today (100,000+ / year)
– Criticized as a tool more of control
than treatment
Electroconvulsive/retrograde
Antipsychotic Drugs
* Block or reduce sensitivity of brain receptors that
respond to blank
* Some increase levels of serotonin, a
neurotransmitter that inhibits dopamine activity
* Can relieve blank symptoms of schizophrenia but
are ineffective for or even worsen blank
symptoms
* Side effects include weight gain, blank
* Increasingly prescribed off-label (e.g. blank)
dopamine/positive/negative/diabetes/Seroquel
Antidepressants
*Blank oxidase inhibitors (Nardil, Parnate)
– Elevate norepinephrine / serotonin in brain by
blocking an enzyme that deactivates them
*Blank antidepressants (Elavil, Tofranil)
– Boost norepinephrine and serotonin in brain by
preventing normal reuptake of these substances
* Selective blank reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
– Also inhibit re-uptake of serotonin to boost levels
– Examples – Blank, Zoloft, Paxil
Monoamine/Tricyclic/serotonin/Prozac
Anti-Anxiety (Tranquilizers)
* Developed for treatment of anxiety
– Increase levels of Blank-aminobutyric acid
(GABA), an inhibitory neurotransmitter
– Developed for shorter-term use, with high relapse
rates when people stop taking them
– Often overprescribed by general physicians for
patients who complain of any mood problems
* Overprescription or long-term use can lead to blank
– Examples – valium, blank
gamma/addiction/xanax
Blank Therapy
* Uses various techniques to explore the unconscious
as a route to identifying and solving problems
– Dream analysis
– Free Blank
* A method of uncovering unconscious conflicts
by saying freely whatever comes to mind
– Blank
* A critical step in which the client transfers
unconscious emotions or reactions onto
therapist (e.g. conflicts about parents)
Psychodynamic/Association/Transference
Blank Methods
* Apply principles and techniques of classical and
operant conditioning to help people change self
defeating or problematic behaviors
* Examples
–Blank desensitization
– Behavioral Blank-monitoring (e.g. via diaries)
– Blank conditioning – punishing undesirable
behaviors
Behavioral/Systematic/self/Aversive
Blank Therapy
* Aim is to have people identify and understand Blank thought patterns, then change them to improve their life
– Albert Ellis’s Blank-Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT):
therapist and client actively challenge existing beliefs
– Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Therapy examines interconnection of thoughts, feelings and behaviors
*Blank-behavioral therapy is an blank approach, with
a goal of using behavioral methods to change cognitions
* Helps build self blank
* Self blank methods, such as self-talk, can help
restructure cognitive habits over time
Cognitive/maladaptive/Rational/Cognitive/integrative/efficacy/instructional
Blank Therapy
* Blank therapy emphasizes people’s free will to
change
* Blank- / Person-Centered Therapy (Carl Rogers)
– Emphasizes empathy with client, seeing the world
as client does, Blank Positive Regard
* Therapist may rephrase / repeats back what the
client is saying via blank listening, to guide
toward insight
* Often is blank, with the goal that the client
should solve the problems him/herself
Humanistic/Client/Unconditional/reflective/nondirective
Blank-System Perspective
– Therapy with individuals or families that focuses
on how each member forms part of a larger
interacting system
Family