Therapy Flashcards
How many Types of Therapy
3
Insight vs. Behavioral
Mental understanding vs. changing behavior
Directive vs. Nondirective
Therapist led vs. client led
Group vs. Indivual
With other ppl vs. alone
Stone Age therapy
Trepanning: bashing a hole in the head to rid the disease
Middle Ages therapy
Blamed demon possession and needed to have an exorcism which still exists today but you have to be certified for it
Early 1800s therapy
Asylums; basically structure like prisons
First Mental Health Activists
Pinel= France Dix= US
Late 1800s Therapy
Freud and psychoanalysis
Talking to patients
Early 1900s Therapy
Psychosurgery, lobotomies, electro convulsive
WWII Therapy
Group therapy
Post WWII Therapy
Drug therapy
Late 1900s Therapy
Proactive, how can we prepare for this
Modern Therapy
Psychotherapy
Biomedical therapy
Psychoanalytic Therapy
Talking/mind but behavior will be involved
Freud
Goals of Psychoanalysis
Uncover unconscious thoughts and and and analyze dreams
Analysis Resistance
Analyze why you don’t want to talk about something
Analysis Transference
Client takes feelings and puts them therapist
Counter transference is the opposite
Free association
Psychoanalysis
Nondirective/allowed client to speak whatever they wanted to
To become a psychoanalytic therapist
Takes 2 years, you have to be analyzed first
Humanistic Therapist
Understanding
Client Centered Therapy/ Person Centered Therapy
Carl Rogers, understanding why behind behavior
Humanistic Therapist Requirements
Genuine, unconditional positive regard, empathy, active listening, paraphrasing what client said, invite clarification/ ask what the really mean, reflect feeling
Types of Behavioral Therapy
Systematic desensitization, vicarious desensitization, aversive conditioning, techniques based on operant conditioning
Systematic Desensitization
Joseph Wolpe
Reciprocal inhibition/ cannot be anxious and relaxed
Teaches relaxing techniques, has a hierarchy to work through
Vicarious Desensitization
See someone else become desensitized so that helps you overcome it
Aversive Conditioning
Pairs a learned dislike with a undesirable habit so that habit can be stopped
Techniques based on Operant Conditioning
Focus on consequences, token economy
Shapes behaviors through reinforcement
Types of Cognitive Therapies
Ellis Rational-Emotive behavior therapy, Becks Cognitive Therapy, Cognitve Behavioral Therapy
REBT
Ellis, confronting irrational thoughts
Activating event>Beliefs>emotional consequence
CT
Beck treatment for depression, distorted perceptions, need to change your warped thinking
CBT
Changing thoughts and behaviors, mindfulness
Existential Therapy
Victor Frankl Logotherapy; meaning in life
Clients need to examine their values and choices
Gestalt Therapy
Being complete
Role playing
Immediate experience
Psychodrama
Acting/watching others act out your emotions
Jacob Moreno
Best w/family/group
Other types of therapy
Equine
Play
Self help groups
Which therapy works best
Depends on client and disorder
How do you know which therapies are good
Credentials
Alternative Therapies
EMDR-Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Light Exposure Therapy
Drug Therapies
Antipsychotic drugs, anti anxiety drugs, antidepressant drugs, psychopharmacology
Victor Frankls book
Man’s Search for Meaning
Concerns about mortality, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness
Examples of distorted thinking
Selective perception= focusing on just bad
Over generealization= applying bad event to all events
All or nothing thinking=see things black and white
