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Therapy Pt2 Flashcards

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Instead of waiting to treat mental illness, community psychologists look to prevent illnesses by

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Looking at primary problems in communities and society

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Community psychologists support programs that help eliminate

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Unemployment, poverty, discrimination, and other demoralizing situations that have been highly correlated with mental illness

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Overall goal of a community psychologist

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Design preventive solutions so that potential problems don’t occur

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Community psychologists focus of stress or diathesis in the “Stress-diathesis model?”

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STRESS- Fix community

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Most common illnesses treated in cognitive perspective

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Depression 
Eating disorders 
Chronic pain 
Marital problems 
Anxiety disorders
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Cognitive therapy assumes that Thoughts exist between

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Events and responses

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In cognitive therapy, a person’s response depends on how they

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Interpret the situation

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Goal of cognitive therapy

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Teach people new and more REALISTIC, helpful, and adaptive patterns of thinking and acting

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Want to see glass half-full instead of half-empty

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Cognitive therapy

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Two major therapists where cognition is a strong focus

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Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy

Albert Ellis’s Rational Emotive Therapy

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Rational emotive therapy is _____ ______ therapy

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Cognitive behavioral

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Beck believed the key to understanding depression was in an

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Individual’s thought patterns

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Beck argued that depressed people’s negative thought patterns and creation of negative schemas caused them to

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Misinterpret the world which often caused them to feel worthless and incomplete

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Beck’s interpretation on depressed people

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Depressed people tend to view world with “dark sunglasses”

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Arbitrary interference

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Drawing negative conclusions from an event without any evidence

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After an argument thinking “that person hates me”

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Arbitrary interference

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Dichotomous thinking

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Irrational all or nothing thinking

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“I cant be happy unless everyone likes me”

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Dichotomous thinking

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Beck developed a cognitive triad which looked at what person thinks about

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1) self
2) world
3) Future

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_________ people tended to have negative perceptions in a cognitive triad

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Depressed

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Theory of Explanatory Styles Effect on Depression

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Martin Seligman

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Martin Seligman- depressed people tend to explain negative external events with a

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Negative explanatory style

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Negative explanatory style: Depressed people view problems as 1) personal

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They caused the negative events

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Negative explanatory style: Depressed people view problems as 2) pervasive

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The negative events will affect everything they do

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Negative explanatory style: Depressed people view problems as 3) permanent

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The negative events will last forever

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Belief of negative explanatory styles can lead to

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learned helplessness

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Rational emotive therapy is a form of what therapy?

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Cognitive behavioral

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Rational emotive therapy by

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Ellis

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Ellis levied that people’s maladaptive thoughts led to

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Maladaptive responses (behaviors)

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Rational emotive behavior involves getting patients to

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Recognize the irrationalities within their thought patterns and helping them create healthier forms of thinking and behaving

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Most combative (argumentative) therapy

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Rational emotive behavior

Takes lots of practice

32
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Regression towards the mean

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The tendency for unusual emotions (depression/sadness) or events to return (regress) toward their average state with time

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In order to test impact of treated vs untreated, studies using ______ can be used

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Meta analysis

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Meta analysis simple words

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Analyzing about analyzing

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Meta-analysis

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Procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

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What illustrates the success of psychology?

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Meta-analysis

Shows how average psychotherapy client is doing better than average untreated person

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Therapies outside of psychotherapy are often

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Biomedical

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The biomedical perspective focuses on

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Altering Body chemistry

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Biomedical perspective is rooted in discoveries of

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Psychopharmacology

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Psychopharmacology

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Study of the effect of drugs on the mind and behavior

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Antipsychotics aka

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Neuroleptics

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Antipsychotics are used to

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Treat psychotic disorders like SCHIZOPHRENIA

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Anti psychotics helps those experiencing positive or negative symptoms?

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Common examples of antipsychotics

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Thorazine and clozaril

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Thorazine

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Alleviates delusions/hallucinations (positive symptoms)

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Clozaril

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Alleviates negative symptoms and social withdrawal

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Clozaril is prescribed for those at risk of

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Neuroleptic drugs act as an antagonist and block dopamine receptors at the synapse to REDUCE

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The amount of dopamine in the brain

49
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Tardive dyskinesia- side effect of neuroleptics

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Produces an incurable disturbance of motor controls (shaking tremors), especially of the facial muscles which are INVOLUNTARY

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More side effects of antipsychotics

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General lethargy, possible increase in negative symptoms, and sexual dysfunction

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Anti-anxiety aka

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Anxiolytics

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Anti-anxiety drugs increase what neurotransmitter

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Anxiolytics drugs _______ nervous system activity; often called

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Depress; tranquilizers

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Anti-anxiety stress

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Reduce stress and suppress anxiety

Temporarily

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Most modern anti-anxiety compounds are in a prescribed class called

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Benzodiazepines

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Benzodiazepines include

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Valium and Xanax

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Benzodiazepines have a high risk of

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Physical and psychological addiction

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Anti-depressants are also used to treat

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Certain anxiety disorders.. generalized anxiety and OCD

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Most anti-depressants increase the availability of

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Norepinephrine and serotonin which elevates in arousal and mood

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Most common examples of anti-depressants

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Prozac
Zoloft
Paxil

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Most common antidepressant

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Selective serotonin reputable inhibitors (SSRI’s)

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Selective serotonin reputable inhibitors (SSRI’s) prevent the

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Reputake of the neuronal increase levels of serotonin

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Reputake

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Excess neurotransmitters are reabsorbed by the sending neuron

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Most common mood stabilizer for bipolar disorder

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Lithium (carbonate)

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Lithium (carbonate)

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Most frequently used to treat the mood swings of bipolar disorder

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Lithium decreases

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Adrenaline and increases serotonin

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Lithium often can have dangerous side effects including being

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Toxic on high doses

68
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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Treat the severely depressed after other treatments have failed

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ECT success rates are high or low?

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Side effects of ECT

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Memory loss

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Most drastic intervention

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Psychosurgery

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Psychosurgery involves

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Removing destroying brain tissue in an effort to change behaviors

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Bet known procedure of psychosurgery

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Lobotomy

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Ice pick like instruments is put through eye sockets cutting the links between the frontal lobes and the emotional control centers

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Lobotomy used to be to “cure”

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Uncontrollability violent patients but now is very rare

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Side effects of lobotomy

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Drastic personality change and unmotivated

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