Psychotherapies Flashcards
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Psychodynamic therapy
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- Process includes bringing awareness to unconscious, reenacting problematic relationship with therapist, working through this pattern and development of the new interpersonal patterns
- Efficacious for depression but not effective for psychotic disorders
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Humanistic therapy
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Emphasize the development of human potential
- Believe that human nature is basically positive
- Stresses importance of assuming responsibility of our lives and living in the present
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Person – centred therapy
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Developed by Carl Rogers
- centres on the clients goals and ways of solving problems
- Therapist must be authentic and genuine, express unconditional positive regard and show empathy and understanding
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Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
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- Claims that how people think behave and feel are all strongly related
- Changing cognition and behaviours
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Group therapy
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Refers to therapies that three more than one person at a time
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Operating procedures
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Applied behavioural analysis procedures to treat children with autism
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Bio medical treatments
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Attempts to alter the brains chemistry or physiology to treat psychological disorders
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Electro convulsive therapy (ECT)
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Involves applying brief electrical current to the brain
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Mindfulness
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A meditation technique that comes from Zen Buddhism and other contemplative traditions
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Exposure therapy
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a type of CBT that goes beyond just cognitive challenging to behaviourally confronting fears
