treatments

Question 1

what is psychoanalysis?

Answer 1

bringing unconscious feelings into awareness
goal = change through insight

Question 2

techniques of psychoanalysis?

Answer 2

free association, transference

Question 3

what is free association?

Answer 3

saying whatever comes to mind

Question 4

what is transference?

Answer 4

bringing past experiences into present and future ones

Question 5

what is psychodynamic treatment?

Answer 5

focus on the relationship - how people act in the social world

Question 6

what is humanistic treatment?

Answer 6

all humans have the potential for self-fulfillment

Question 7

Carl Rogers founded …. therapy?

Answer 7

client-centered therapy

Question 8

what is client-centered therapy?

Answer 8

empathy - accept clients feelings, validate their feelings

Question 9

what is behavioral treatment?

Answer 9

classical conditioning, exposure, operant conditioning

Question 10

what is counterconditioning?

Answer 10

we can’t experience relaxation and fear at the same time

Question 11

what is systematic desensitization in exposure ?

Answer 11

working through the anxiety hierarchy

Question 12

what is flooding in exposure?

Answer 12

activate full anxiety and wait until it decreases

Question 13

what is operant conditioning?

Answer 13

use of reinforcement, punishment, or extinction to change behavior (token system)

Question 14

what is assumption?

Answer 14

thoughts intervene between events and our emotional interactions

Question 15

example of an assumption?

Answer 15

get bad grade, think you aren’t smart enough, don’t deserve to be in school, stop studying

Question 16

what is Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Thereapy?

Answer 16

dysfunctional or maladaptive thoughts leads to depression
aims at testing our assumptions

Question 17

people prone to depression have cognitive _?

Answer 17

distortions

Question 18

what is selective abstraction?

Answer 18

selective something bad from a mixture of good, and letting that define you

Question 19

what is cognitive-behavioral therapy?

Answer 19

behavioral activation in addition to cognitive changes

Question 20

what is couples and family therapy?

Answer 20

focus on family as a system with communication patterns

Question 21

what is group therapy?

Answer 21

normalizes our problems, explore social behavior and develop social skills

Question 22

what is psychopharmacology therapy?

Answer 22

drug therapy

Question 23

what are examples of anti-psychotic drugs?

Answer 23

Risperdal, Thorazine

Question 24

what do anti-psychotic drugs do?

Answer 24

useful for controlling positive symptoms of psychosis

Question 25

side effects of anti-psychotics?

Answer 25

tardive dyskinesia - loss of fine motor control in face and tongue weight gain

Question 26

what are some anti-anxiety drugs?

Answer 26

xanax, ativan

Question 27

what do anti-anxiety drugs do?

Answer 27

central nervous system depressant

Question 28

never mix anti-anxiety drugs with ... ?

Answer 28

alcohol

Question 29

what are some anti-depressants?

Answer 29

prozac, zoloft

Question 30

anti-depressants are most effective for _ depression?

Answer 30

severe

Question 31

anti-depressants are often known as

Answer 31

SSRI's (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors)

Question 32

what is an example of a mood stabilizer?

Answer 32

lithium

Question 33

what do mood stabilizers do?

Answer 33

reduce manic symptoms of bipolar disorders

Question 34

what is the process for electroconvulsive therapy?

Answer 34

used for severely depressed patients who do not respond to medication, patient is anesthetized and given a muscle relaxant

Question 35

side effects for electroconvulsive therapy?

Answer 35

temporary amnesia, feeling "cloudy"

Question 36

what is the process for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)?

Answer 36

sit in chair and have magnetic pulses in left prefrontal cortex

Question 37

therapeutic lifestyle changes are _ effective for treating _ depression

Answer 37

equally effective, moderate depression

Question 38

therapeutic lifestyle changes examples?

Answer 38

exercise, sleep, nutrition, time in nature