Therapies (class 1) Flashcards
Barriers of receiving therapy/support
Availability of appropriate support
Disorders are ambiguous – lack of correct or complete diagnosis
Stigma about mental illness
Attitudes toward treatment
Cultural attitudes to seeking support + availability of appropriate
cultural support
Geographical barriers – rural and remote
Financial barriers
Significantly long and increasing wait lists
Examples of psychoanalysis
Attachment Based Therapy
Relational Therapy
Self-Psychology Therapy
Ego Psychology Therapy
Object Relations Therapy
The premise of the above therapies is how early childhood experiences
and emotional attachments influence later psychological functioning
Humanistic therapies
Rogers, and Person-Centered revolutionized the counselling/therapy profession by demonstrating
and proving the critical significance of relationships in counselling/therapy
Albert Ellis (1962) and Aaron Beck (1963)
Conscious thinking is the basis for most behavior and emotional response
Unconscious or preconscious can easily be brought to the forefront with probing and reflection
Group therapies
Refers to therapies that treat more than one person at a time
Effective for a wide range of problems and about as helpful as individual treatments
Couple and family therapies
Families are systems of interconnected and interdependent individuals.
Couple and family therapists pay attention to the dynamics of the family unit—how members communicate, act toward each other, and view each other
Biomedical therapies
Attempt to directly alter the brain’s chemistry or physiology to treat psychological disorders
Psychological disorders = symptoms of underlying physical
disorders.
Psychopharmacotherapy
Use of medications to treat
psychological disorders
Antianxiety, antidepressants, mood
stabilizers, antipsychotics,
psychostimulants
Major antidepressant drugs
Have different ways of increasing the transmission of
neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine at the synapses
ELECTROCONVULSIVE SHOCK THERAPY (ECT)
In electroconvulsive therapy, a mild electric current is passed through the brain for one to two seconds, causing a brief seizure.
Used to treat severe problems (intractable depression,
schizophrenia) as a last resort 6-10 treatments given three times a week
PSYCH0SURGERY
For serious psychological disorders, severe chronic pain.
Severe O C D, depression, bipolar disorders
Lobotomy
Psychosurgery severs nerve fibers connecting frontal lobes to deeper brain centers
Cingulotomy
Electric currents through electrodes to destroy cingulum
