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Therapy And Treatmement Pt 1 Flashcards

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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)

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

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Rorschach inkblot
TAT
Finish the sentence
Draw a picture test

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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

38
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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)

49
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Most aggressive exposure therapy

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Flooding

50
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Fear of heights

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Conditioned response

51
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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

54
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Flooding can lead to

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Extinction of fear

55
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opposite of systematic desensitization

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Aversive conditioning

56
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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

57
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How could you create an aversion to alcohol?

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Mix it with something terrible

58
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Behavior followed by consequence

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Operant conditioning

59
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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

61
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The “token” of token economy is ______ reinforcement

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Secondary

62
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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

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