Psych 8 Flashcards
Any treatment used by therapists to help troubled individuals overcome problems is called
Psychotherapy
Combining different types of therapies
Eclectic Approach
This effect might influence a person’s hopes and expectations on their therapies
Placebo Effect
The capacity for warmth and understanding
Empathy
Type of therapy that may have multiple people with similar issues at the same time
Group Therapy
Freud’s approach to therapy which may includes unconscious motives
Psychoanalysis
This therapy focuses on value, dignity, and worth
Humanistic
This surgery destroys part of the frontal lobe
Lobotomy
Reduces agitation, delusions, and hallucinations by blocking the activity of the dopamine in the brain.
Anti-Psychotic Drugs
This is taken to help bi-polar disorder
Lithium Carbonate
This is taken to treat major depression
Anti-depressants
This type of therapy uses medication to help the patient
Drug Therapy
The methods where the patient discusses their fear, learns relaxation, then is slowly exposed to the fear-producing situation
Systematic Desensitization
Therapy that concentrates on determining what is specifically troubling with a patient’s life and taking steps to change it.
Behavioral
This therapy tries to use thoughts to control emotions and behaviors.
Cognitive