Therapy (Unit 15) Flashcards
Believed a therapist should be warm, well-adjusted, empathetic, and supportive:
Carl Rogers
Emotional bond between therapist and client is key:
Therapeutic Alliance
The first to direct attention the Therapist-client Relationship:
Freud
The tendency of the client to relate to the therapist as they relate to other important individuals:
Transference
Personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and trauma:
Resilience
Recovery without formal treatment:
Spontaneous Remission
A variety of techniques from various forms of therapy:
Eclectic
Focus on the body treatment and usually employs medicine, under the assumption that problems reflect underlying physicality:
Biomedical Therapies
Fibers connecting parts of the brain are severed; cut frontal lobes from the thalamus leaving the patient but emotionally/cognitively cut off:
Psychosurgery such as Lobotomies
Was usually done to treat depression or schizophrenia:
Lobotomies
Pioneered the lobotomy and won the Nobel Prize in 1949:
Eges Moniz
Passing an electric current through to brain of a patient, inducing a seizure:
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Usually to treat bipolar and depression:
ECT
Uses electromagnets to stimulate the brain; has been successful in relieving depression:
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)
What are 3 anti-anxiety drugs?
Valium, Xanax, and Ativan
What is an anti-manic drug?
Lithium
What are 4 anti-depressant drugs?
Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, and Lexapro
Keeps serotonin from reentering the terminal buttion:
SSRI (most used)
Breaks down serotonin so it stays in the synapse longer:
MAOI
Closes the terminal buttons:
Tricyclics (Tri-C)
What are 3 anti-psychotic/neuroleptic drugs?
Thorazine, Clozapine, Haldol
What are some side effects of taking medication?
Shaky movements, migraines, weight gain, kidney damage, suicidal tendencies
Involuntary movements of the tongue, jaw, trunk, or extremities in conjunction with the use of antipsychotic medication:
Tardive Dyskinesia
What medicine lessens the symptoms of Tardive Dyskinesia?
Risperdal
The first talking therapy where one goes to therapies about 2-3 times a week; can be very costly:
Psychoanalytic Therapy
- Probes the past in hopes of unraveling the future
- Therapist sits behind the client and uses free association
- Dreams contain latent content (hidden meaning)
- Process is called “walking through”
Psychoanalytic Therapy
- Therapist treatments are shorter, client is sitting up talking to the therapist, and the cost is less
- Therapist is more active and likely to point out and interpret relevant associations and help client unconcer unresolved conflicts more directly to gain insight into the problem
- Believed anxiety can come from the past, not just the childhood
- Sometimes use word association
Psychodynamic Therapy
- Client centered therapy is the work of Carl Rogers
- Creates an atmosphere of unconditional positive regard
- Uses nondirective counseling and active listening where the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies
Humanistic Perspective
The bringing together of individuals in conflict under conditions where they can understand each other better:
Encounter Groups
Treats family as a system and views the individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by other family members:
Family Therapy
Bereavement support:
Self-Help Groups
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and out emotional reactions:
Cognitive Therapy
- Confront clients unreasonable expectations
- Believed people’s problems stem from peoples irrational thinking
- Helps people with anxiety disorders
- Rumination: stuck in irrational, bad thought processes
Rational-Emotive Therapy by Albert Ellis
- First step is to identify the client’s automatic thoughts and habitual putdowns and challenge them:
Depression Therapy
Learn to eliminate or reduce maladaptive behaviors through learning and personality theories; does not deal with unconscious conflicts:
Behavior Therapy
Used for smokers, anorexics, etc:
Behavior Modification
Behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to things they avoid or fear:
Exposure Therapy
Anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears such as flying in a plane or public speaking:
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
A person is taught to relax and imagine feared objects or situations, gradually moving to the most frightening of images; also called counter-conditioning:
Systematic Desensitization by Joseph Wolpe
- This is commonly used to treat phobias
- Flood - not desirable due to the use of force
- Use implosion therapy - patient is guided to visualize what they fear and learn to deal with it using relaxation
Counter-conditioning - Research by Mary Cover Jones
Use punishment to teach patients a dislike:
Aversion Therapy
This rule says people are not responsible for their actions if they were unable to control their actions at the time of the crime:
Irresistible Impulse Rule
This rule states that people are not responsible for their actions if they were unable to recognize the difference between right and wrong at the time of the crime:
M’Naghten Rule
