Therapies

Question 1

Therapy

Answer 1

A general term for any treatment process; in psychology and psychiatry it refers to a variety of psychological and biomedical techniques aimed at dealing with mental disorders or coping with problems of living.

Question 2

Psychotherapy

Answer 2

A general term for insight and behavioral therapies that are not biomedical, but psychologically based.
Also referred to as psychological therapies or often simply therapy.
ITS THERAPY

Question 3

Biomedical therapies

Answer 3

Treatments that focus on altering the brain, especially with drugs or electroconvulsive therapy.

Question 4

Insight therapies

Answer 4

Psychotherapies in which the therapist helps patients/clients understand (gain insight to) their problems.

Centers on thinking and feeling:
Freudian psychoanalysis
Cognitive therapies

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud, goal is to release the repressed conflicts and memories from the unconscious

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Free association and dream interpretation

Answer 6

Clues to the unconscious, Freud

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Analysis of transference

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Freudian technique of analyzing and interpreting the patient’s relationship with the therapist based on the assumption that this relationship mirrors the patient’s past.
(Often parental in nature)

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Cognitive therapy

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Emphasizes rational thinking as the key to treating mental disorders, focusing on erroneous thinking and self-fulfilling prophecies, allowing the movement towards evidence-based thinking

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Behavior therapy

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Any form of psychotherapy based on the principles of behavioral learning, especially operant and classical conditioning.

Focuses on how undesirable behaviors are learned and can be unlearned.

Question 10

Systematic desensitization

Classical conditioning therapy

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A behavioral technique in which anxiety is extinguished by exposing the patient to an anxiety-provoking stimulus in increasing intensity

Question 11

Exposure therapy or flooding

Classical conditioning therapy

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A behavioral technique in which the client directly confronts the anxiety-provoking stimulus

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Virtual reality exposure therapy

VRET

Answer 12

The use of virtual reality technology for psychological or occupational therapy and in affecting virtual rehabilitation.

Question 13

Aversion therapy

(Classical conditioning therapy

Answer 13

A classical conditioning procedure involving presenting individuals with an attractive stimulus paired with aversive stimulation in order to condition a repulsive reaction.

Question 14

Token economies

Operant conditioning therapies

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An operant conditioning technique applied to groups, such as classrooms, mental hospitals, prisons, involving the distribution of “tokens” or other agents of reinforcement contingent on desired behaviors.

(Tokens or any token symbolism, in exchange for food, privilege, real money, etc.)

Question 15

Electroconvulsive shock therapy or shock treatment

Biomedical therapy

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A treatment used mostly for depression involving the application of an electric current (75-100 volts) to the head, producing a generalized seizure.

Question 16

Antipsychotics

Drug therapy

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Reduces activity on the dopamine pathways in the brain

Question 17

Antidepressants

Drug therapy

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“Turn up the volume” on the messages on the serotonin and/or norepinephrine pathways in the brain.

Question 18

Stimulants

Drug therapy

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Drugs that normally increase activity level by encouraging communication among neurons in the brain, however, they have been found to suppress activity level in persons with ADHD.