Therapy And Treatmement Pt 1

Question 1

2 major types of therapy

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Psychological therapies- talk

Biomedical therapies- psychiatrists

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Psychological therapies

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Employ interaction (usually verbal) between trained professional and a client with a problem

Question 3

Biomedical therapies

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Directed at a patient’s nervous system

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Biomedical psychiatrists classification

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Medication (psychopharmacology)
Psycho surgery (last resort)
Shock (electroconversive therapy)- treats severe depression

Question 5

Psychotherapy differed depending on the

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Perspective of the therapist

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Psychotherapy

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Emotionally charged, confiding interactions between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological disorders

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Psychotherapy based on

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Psychoanalytic
Humanistic
Behavioral
Cognitive

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Eclectic (mixture) approach=

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Diverse approach

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Eclectic approach

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Uses a variety of different techniques from various theories of therapy depending on the problem of the individual

Question 10

More than half of the therapists take _____ approach

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Eclectic approach

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Insight therapists don’t follow ______ perspective

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Behavioral

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All insight therapies agree that their goal is to

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Help clients develop insight about the cause of their problems and that insight will lead to behavioral change; problems decrease as self awareness increases

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Insight therapies include

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Psychoanalytic
Humanistic (client centered)
Cognitive

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Insight therapies are most often used to treat

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Depression, eating disorders, and marital problems

Question 15

Unmasking your “repressed anxiety”-While doing FREE ASSOCIATION, there will be blocks in your flow. Analysts interpret these blocks as

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Resistance

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Resistance

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The blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

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Based on your resistance, the analysts will try to provide accurate INTERPRETATIONS

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Noting supposed meaning behind blocks in slow to provide patient with INSIGHT (reason behind your problems)

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To unmask your “repressed anxiety” psychoanalysts also interpret dreams’

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Latent content (underlying meaning)

Question 19

Third way of psychoanalysts unmasking “repressed anxiety”- interpreting TRANSFERENCE

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After revealing extremely personal things about themselves to therapists, patients often start to feel positive or negative feelings towards their analysts

Question 20

Freud argued that the feeling you feel towards a therapist represented TRANSFERENCE

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Patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love/hatred for a parent)

Question 21

4th way of psychoanalysts unmasking your “repressed anxiety”- projective tests

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Rorschach inkblot
TAT
Finish the sentence
Draw a picture test

Question 22

Criticism of psychoanalytic therapy: built on assumption that ______ memories exist

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Repressed

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Criticism of psychoanalytic therapy: _______ cant be proven right or wrong

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Interpretations

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Criticism of psychoanalytic therapy

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Is very time consuming and costly.. usually takes several years to achieve insight

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Humanistic perspective of therapy hopes to boost self-fulfillment by helping people grow in

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Self awareness and self acceptance

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Main focuses of humanistic therapy

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Present and future Conscious rather than unconscious thoughts Individual responsibility (free will) for feelings Promote growth instead of cures

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Carl Rogers therapy

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Client/person centered therapy

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Most widely used humanistic technique

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Client (person) centered therapy

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Client (person) centered therapy

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Technique which involves active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients’ growth

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Technique in which therapist is NON-DIRECTIVE towards client and emphasizes with them by echoing, restating, and clarifying their feelings

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Active listening

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Active listening buzz words

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Echoing, Restating, clarifying

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Client centered therapy promotes

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Self awareness

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When given _______ ______ ______ clients start to accept themselves including their faults and feel more valued and whole

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Unconditional positive regard

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Unlike psychoanalytic and humanistic therapies, behavior therapies are NOT interested in

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The underlying cause of the problem or in achieving self-awareness

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Behavior therapies

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Assume the problems are the behaviors themselves and look to use well-established LEARNING PRINCIPLES to eliminate the unwanted behavior

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Learning principles of behavioral therapy

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Operant conditioning Classical conditioning Observational learning

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Behavior therapy is usually used to treat

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Anxiety disorders, drug addictions, bedwetting, sexual dysfunctions, and autism

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Classical conditioning techniques argue that learned responses like phobias can be unlearned through

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Counterconditioning

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Behavior therapy that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger your unwanted behaviors

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Counterconditioning

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Counterconditioning example

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Pair fear of heights with relaxing stimuli

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Two types of counterconditioning- help treat phobias

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Systematic desensitization and aversive conditioning

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Systematic desensitization

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Exposure technique used to commonly treat phobias Associates a pleasant relaxed state with GRADUALLY INCREASING anxiety-triggering stimuli until anxiety towards stimuli is eliminated

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Systematic desensitization goal

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Extinguish previously learned response

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Systematic desensitization- key to enacting procedure is move

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Gradually

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Systematic desensitization AKA

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Graduated exposure theory

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Before beginning the process of systematic desensitization, therapies have patients create an

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Anxiety hierarchy

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Anxiety hierarchy

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List of fears related to phobia from least to most terrifying

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Anxiety hierarchy example

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School phobia 1) thinking about school(least terrifying) 2) riding the bus 3) walking the halls 4) sitting in class (most terrifying)

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Most aggressive exposure therapy

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Flooding

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Fear of heights

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Conditioned response

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After therapy of systematic desensitization

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Relaxation(UCS)+Phobia(NS/CS)—->Relaxation

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Flooding- opposite to gradual exposure therapy

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Involves immediately exposing client to a stimulus that causes undesirable response to show that stimulus isn’t dangerous

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Systematic desensitization steps

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1) create anxiety hierarchy 2) create UCS of relaxation 3) Slowly expose them to fear

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Flooding can lead to

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Extinction of fear

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opposite of systematic desensitization

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Aversive conditioning

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Aversive conditioning looks to reverse a negative behavior by

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Associating an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior Classical conditioning

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How could you create an aversion to alcohol?

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Mix it with something terrible

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Behavior followed by consequence

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Operant conditioning

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Token economy (operant condoning)

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Procedure that rewards behavior. Patient exchanges a token of some sort, earned for good behaviors, for various privileges 0r treats

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Token economy is used for

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Young children, severe autism, intellectual disabilities

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The “token” of token economy is ______ reinforcement

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Secondary

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Modeling by

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Bandura

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Theories of Modeling were extended to therapy when it was shown that clients learn through

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observation of appropriate behavior (and rewards) will be encouraging to imitate the behavior