Therapies

Question 1

Insight therapies

Answer 1

• form of psychotherapy where goal is to expand awareness or insight to how individuals past may influence thinking, feeling, acting
• involves dialogue between client and therapist
  -psychodynamic, humanistic, group

Question 2

Psychodynamic therapy

Answer 2

• humans seek relief from tension
• goal to make unconscious conscious
• behavior stem form traumatic or adverse childhood experiences
• feeling securely attached to someon
• analyze avoided thoughts and feeling
• Insight eases symptoms

Question 3

Psychoanalysis

Answer 3

-developed by Freud, 1st form of thera
- origins in early experiments
- unconscious conflicts + effects called neuroses (anxieties)
- goal to decrease guilt + frustration
-interpretation, dream analysis
- transference, countertransference

Question 4

Transference

Answer 4

• client projecting intense, unrealistic feelings onto therapist

Question 5

Countertransference

Answer 5

• therapist projecting thoughts, feelings onto client

Question 6

Current types of psychoanalysis

Answer 6

• attachment based therapy
• relational therapy
  -self- psychology therapy
• ego psychology therapy
• object relations therapy

Question 7

Humanistic- Existential Psychotherapy

Answer 7

• psychological dynamics to understand y become distressed -emphasis strengths + growth potenti
  -assume human nature is +
  Emphasize importance of facing painful experiences and assuming responsibility

Question 8

Humanistic Therapies Person- Centered Therapy- Rogers

Answer 8

• Carl Rogers influenced by humanism, created person centered therapy

Question 9

Systematic desensitization

Answer 9

• involves gradual exposure to a feared stimulus or situation, coupled with relaxation training

Question 10

Cognitive- Behavioral Therapy

Answer 10

• relaxation techniques
• exercises
  -based on behavioral and cognitive theory/therapy

Question 11

CBT integrative approaches

Answer 11

• acceptance + commitment therapy
• dialectical behavior therapy
• mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
• mindfulness-based stress reduction
• mindfulness-based relapse prevention
• mindfulness-based therapy for GAD

Question 12

Biomedical Therapies

Answer 12

• attempt to directly alter brains chemistry or physiology to treat psychological disorders
• drug therapy
• electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
• psychosurgery

Question 13

Psychopharmacotherapy

Answer 13

• use of medications to treat psychological disorders
• is the most widespread

Question 14

Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy (ECT)

Answer 14

• for severely depressed, suicidal patients
• used to treat serve problems as a last resort

Question 15

Psychosurgery

Answer 15

• for serious psychological disorders, severe chronic pain, OCD, Bipolar,
• lobotomy (severs nerve fibers connecting frontal lobes to deeper brain centers
  -Cingulotomy (electric current thought electrodes to destroy cingulum)