Treatments Flashcards
When it comes to phobias, this works better than systematic desensitization
In vivo exposure
It involves 24 sessions focused on identifying the emotions and a meaning surrounding panic attacks
Psychodynamic treatment (panic disorder)
Treatment for panic disorder wherein it uses exposure techniques, persuades the client to deliberately elicit the bodily sensations associated with panic
Panic control therapy (PCT)
Medications that are used in anxiety disorders
Anxiolytic
Benzodiazepines
Antidepressants (preferred over benzodiazepines)
Several trials have shown that _____________ produces a major decrease in body dysmorphic symptoms compared to control conditions
CBT
It includes removing the hoarders possession while the person is away; this typically creates mistrust and animosity
Coercive strategies
A training or behavioral therapy that helps people reverse or unlearn a bad habit by following certain habit reversal training steps
Habit reversal training
Used in tricotillomania and OCD
It helps victims of rape and childhood sexual abuse dispute tendency towards self blame
Cognitive processing therapy - PTSD
Client is hypnotized and encouraged to go back in his or her mind to traumatic events in childhood
Age regression
DID
True or false?
Antidepressant is used if the DID is comorbid with anxiety and depression, these medications actually have NO effect on the DID itself
True
Meaning “taking hold of the nerves”
Neuroleptics
Teach people with schizophrenia how to successfully manage a wide variety of interpersonal situations; it involves role-playing and other group exercises to practice skills
Social skills training
It concentrates on trying to normalize such functions as attention and memory; seeks to enhance basic cognitive functions in people with schizophrenia
Cognitive Remediation Therapy
These two models both entail a multidisciplinary team that provides services in the community, such as medication, treatment for substance abuse, help in dealing with stressors people with schizophrenia face regularly, psychotherapy, vocational training, and assistance in obtaining housing and employment
Assertive Community Treatment Model and Intensive Case Management Model
Also called halfway houses; Google alternatives for people who do not need to be in the hospital but are not quite well enough to leave on their own or even with their family
Residential treatment homes
Largest and most widely used self-help group; tries to instill in each member the belief that alcohol dependence is a deceased can never be cured and that continuing vigilance is necessary to resist taking even a single drink, less uncontrollable thinking begin all over again
Alcoholics Anonymous
Teaching people and those close to them to reinforced behaviors inconsistent with thinking
Contingency Management Therapy
Interview in which it carefully assesses drinking in the past 3 months
Timeline Follow Back (TLFB)
polyethylene patch taped to the arm serves as a transdermal (through the skin) nicotine delivery system that slowly and steadily releases the drug into the bloodstream and then to the brain
Nicotine patches
The idea is to help smokers endure the nicotine withdrawal that companies any effort to stop smoking
Nicotine replacement treatments
Nicotine may be supplied in gum, patches, or electronic cigarettes
Incorporate the 12 step program
Gambler’s Anonymous
Person imagine situations he finds inappropriately arousing and also imagines of feeling sick or ashamed for feeling acting this way
Covert sensitization
Teaching the sex offender to consider how he’s or her behavior would affect someone else may lessend the tendency to engage in such activities
Empathy training
Patience are instructed to masturbate to their usual fantasies but to substitute more desirable ones just before ejaculation
Orgasmic reconditioning
A federal law that requires the release of relevant information to protect the public from sexually violent offenders
Megan’s law
This is used for adults with ADHD to reduce distractibility and improve organizational skills
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Includes arranging the environment so that the child initiates an interest. For example placing a favorite toy just out of reach
Naturalistic teaching strategies for ASD
This disorder maybe self correcting and may not require special intervention
Language disorder
Person is instructed to stop speaking when a stuttering episode occurs and then to take a deep breath before proceeding
Regulated breathing method
Electronically if changing speech of feedback to people who stutter
Altered auditory feedback
Involves three meetings to get to know, assess, and provide feedback to parents regarding their children and parenting practices; offered to families with toddlers who were at high risk of developing conduct problems
Family checkup (FCU)
Parents are taught to modify their responses to their children so that pro social rather than antisocial behavior is consistently rewarded; use reinforcements or punishments depending on the behavior
Parent management training
It is useful for serious juvenile offenders; it is based on the view that contact problems are influenced by multiple factors within the family as well as between the family and other social systems
Multi-systematic treatment
An opioid antagonist also used in the treatment of alcoholism and kleptomania
Naltrexone