treatment of disorders Flashcards
seeking help?
- social construct 3D’s
distress
dysfunctional
deviant
seeking therapy
-when and where
- when: severe emotional discomfort
unable to handle problem.life transition
past problem is worsening or has resurfaced - where - school, hospital, community
types of supporters
- counselling pyschologist
- clinical psychologist
- psychiatrist
1 stronger focus on healthier individuals : careers, marriage, school
- one on one or couples therapy.
2. focus on psychosis or other serious mental illness
3. medical doctor that supports people with mental illnes. - more emphasis on physical solutions, but may provide therapy.
choosing therapist
therapist-client relationship: degree of value similarity between therapist and client; feeling of ease, agree-upon goals
- culturally competent - understand your culutral background and individual cultural difference
gender issues
- females
focus on changing women’s life circumstances. aware of oppressive environmental conditions = focusing on negative amplifies negativity
psychodynamic therapy - based on freud
goal?
free association?
dream interpretation
psychoanalysis
goal: help patients achieve insight
insight: conscious awareness of underlying problems (bring up repressed things that are harming you)
FA: uncensored conversation - what was in subconscious comes out.
DI: understand symbolic meanings of dreams
factors involved in psychoanalysis therapy
- resistance. defensive maneuvers that hinder process. signs that anxiety-arousing material is being approached
- transference: client responds irrationally to therapist. thoughts feelings from past pushed onto therapist.
- interpretation: statement by therapist - not deep insights
psychoanalysis - set backs
can be lengthy process.
briefer = more economical.
humanistic therapy: client centered therapy
roger’s psychotherapy is to repair inconsistencies
- client centered, positive encouraging environment.
- develop genuine caring relationship with client; undonditional positive regard and empathic understanding
cognitive therapy
- purpose?
- what kinds of conditions?
role of irrational and self-defeating thought patterns
help disover and change cognitions
1. unipolar depression
2. adapted for other disorders.
cogntive therapy - rational emotive therapy
A -ctivating event
B- elief system
C- onsequences (emotional and behavioural)
D-isputing or challenging maladaptive emotions, behaviours. - homework
cognitive therapy - treat what? similar effect in what kind of treatment?
treating unipolar depression.
changes in brain function - in limbic system and cortex. similar effect in SSRI
exposure in behaviour therapies
treat phobies thru exposure to feared CS.
response prevention used to keep operant avoidance response from occurring.
behaviour therapies - strategies
flooding = exposed to real-life stimuli. more effective, realistic, traumatic. faster response
implosion: “inner” imagine scenes involving stimuli. *not as effective
behaviour therapy - systematic desensitization
steps
learning-based treatment for anxiety disorders. eliminate anxiety through gradual counterconditioning.
- train muscle relaxation skills - anxiety and relaxation hard to have together
- stimulus hierarchy - person engage in relaxing technique when imagining phobie
- relaxation and progressive association with stimulus hierarchy -
behaviour therapy - aversion therapy
helps remove negative behaviour, like alocholism, when paired with noxious UCS. * may not apply to real world
behaviour modification treatment
positive reinforcement, extinction, negative reinforcement, punishment to in/de-crease behaviour.
successful when traditional therapies are difficult to implement
behaviour modification treatment - reinforcement
positive reinforcement, extinction, negative reinforcement, punishment to in/de-crease behaviour.
successful when traditional therapies are difficult to implement