Treatments Flashcards
Psychotherapy
psychological intervention which helps peoples resolve emotional, behavioral and interpersonal problems and imporve quality of life - talk thearpy
- 20% of americans seek it out, mostly women and caucasians
- treated by clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers or paraprofessionals
paraprofessional
individuals without professional training who attend workshops and training
- little to no difference etween experienced and novice therapists
Insight therapies
- form of psychotherapy where the goal is to expand awareness and insight
- giving you an awareness/understanding of what is happening which can change perspective and ways of thinking to treat
- consists of psychodynamic, humanistic and group approaches
Psychodynamic therapists
freudian therapists and those influenced by freud’s techniques
3 central beliefs of psychodynamic therapy
- causes of abnomal behaviours stem from traumatic or adverse childhood experiences
- analyze avoided thoughts and feelings, wishes, fantasies, and past events
- when they reach insight into unconscious mind, the causes and significances of symptoms become evident which makes them more likely to dissapear
psychoanalysis
- freud developed it as one of first forms of therapy
- goal is to decrease guilt and frustration by bringing the unconscious into the conscious
- bring awareness to previously repressed impulses and conflicts and memories (things they might not remember)
psychoanalysis key aspects
- free association
- interpretation
- dream analysis
- resistance
- transference
- work through
free association
technique in which clients express themselves without censorship of any sort
resistance
attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety associated with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions and impulses
- therapists make patients aware theyre unconsciously obstructing therapeutic efforts to resolve resistance
transference
projecting intense, unrealistic feelings onto the therapist
- project past people onto present
neo freudian tradition
- more concerned with conscious aspects of client’s functioning
- emphasize on things other than sex and aggression
- emphasize the importance of cultural and interpersonal influcnes on behaviour
interpersonal therapy
- neo Freudian –>sullivan
- treatment that strengthens social skills and targets interpersonal problems, conflicts and life treatments
- short term treatment (12-16 sessions) developed for depression but also helps susbtance abuse and eating disorders
- learning how to be more social and talk to people
- insight isnt necessary, we dont have to understand our past
limitations to Psychodynamic therapies
- many are questionable from a scientific standpoint because hard to research and hard to falsify
- insight is not necessary to relieve distress
- weak support for repressed memories
- not effective for psychotic disorders
- small sample hard to validate
Humanistic psychotherapy
therapy that shares an emphasis on the development of human potential and the belief that human nature is basically positive
- focuses on living in the present and importance of assuming responsibility for our lives
person centered therapy
- attaining acceptance and think more realistically and have adaptive behaviours
- carl rogers
- therapist doenst tell patient what to do, they use the therapy however they want
- therapist must be genuine, authentic, empathetic understanding, express positive regard
- patients structure the sessions
Gesalt therapy
- becoming whole
p therapy aims to integrate different or opposing aspects of personality into a unified self - two chair technique
Humanistic therapies evaluated scientifically
- difficult to falsify
- therapist traits in humanistic approaches like empathy are related to treatment outcomes
- more effective than no treatment but mixed results compared to other therapies
Group therapies
get together with people who have the same worries and issues as you and share
- therapist treats more than one person at a time
- dont feel alone
Alcoholics anonymous
- composed of peers with similar problems
- 12 step methods but little research on its effectiveness