Unit 13- Treatment Flashcards
psychotherapy
treatment involving psychological techniques; achieve personal growth
biomedical therapy
prescribed medications act on person’s physiology
eclectic approach
depending on the client’s problems, various therapy forms
psychoanalysis
release repressed feelings to gain self-insight, freud
resistance
blocking consciousness from anxiety-laden material
interpretation
analyst’s noting to promote insight
transference
patient’s transfer to analyst of emotions linked with other relationships, the patient may have reactions toward the therapist that are actually based on feelings toward someone from the past
psychodynamic therapy
clients respond to unconscious/childhood, to gain self-insight, less intensive version of psychoanalysis
insight therapies
aim to improve psychological functioning; increase person’s awareness
client-centered therapy
active listening, empathic/accepting environment, Carl Rogers, humanistic, maslow
active listening
empathic listening, listener restates/clarifies
unconditional positive regard
caring, accepting, non-judgemental attitude
behavior therapy
applies learning principles to eliminate unwanted behavior, skinner and pavlov
counterconditioning
classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors
exposure therapies
treat anxieties by exposing people to fears
systematic desensitization
associates a pleasant/relaxed state with anxiety stimuli
virtual reality exposure therapy
expose people to electronic simulations of greatest fears
aversive conditioning
associates unpleasant state with unwanted behavior
token economy
people earn a reward for desired behavior
cognitive therapy
teaches people new, adaptive ways of thinking, aaron beck and albert ellis
rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
challenges self-defeating attitudes and assumptions
cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
cognitive plus behavior therapy
group therapy
therapy with groups rather than individual
family therapy
allows therapist to work on family system, individual’s unwanted behavior is influenced/directed at family
regression toward the mean
extreme scores to fall back to average; drifting from initial crisis back to an average state.
meta analysis
statistically combining results of different research studies
evidence based practice
best research integrated with patient
therapeutic alliance
bond of trust between client and therapist
resillience
personal strength that helps people cope and recover
psychopharmacology
study of the effects of drugs on mind/behavior
antipsychotic drugs
drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other severe thought disorder
antianxiety drugs
control anxiety and agitation
antidepressant drugs
treat depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD (SSRI is used widely)
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
electric current sent through brain, for severly depressed patients
repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
repeated pulses of magnetic energy to brain
psychosurgery
removes/destroys brain tissue to change behavior
lobotomy
cut nerves connecting frontal lobes to emotion centers in brain
Sigmund Freud
psychoanalysis, long-term treatment focus
Carl Rogers
client-centered therapy, unconditional positive regard
Mary Cover Jones
exposure therapy, reduce phobias in children
Joseph Wolpe
systematic desentization
BF Skinner
behavior therapy, eliminate responses determined by the way reinforces are given
Albert Ellis
cognitive behavioral therapy, REBT, adjusting thinking for emotional/behavioral problems, challenging irrational beliefs and assumptions
- depression is worsened by
irrational beliefs
Aaron Beck
cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive therapy for depression, correcting cognitive distortions
-Aaron Beck helped people see how their depression was
worsened by errors in thinking such as catastrophizing,
(interpreting current events as signs of the worst possible outcome).
Interpersonal therapy
further extension of psychoanalysis, The focus is less on the past, and more on current feelings and relationships including the interaction with the therapist.
self-help groups
led by group members instead of therapist
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
In EMDR therapy, the therapist attempts to unlock and reprocess
previous frozen traumatic memories. The therapist waves a
finger or light in front of the eyes of the client, in order to integrate past and present, and left and right hemispheres.
light exposure therapy
Research supports the idea that daily exposure to bright
light, especially with a blue tint, is
effective in treating the depressive
symptoms of seasonal affective
disorder [SAD].
microsurgery
might work by disrupting problematic neural networks
involved with aggression or obsessive-compulsive disorder.
medication treatment for bipolar disorder
lithium
medication treatment for depression
prozac
antianxiety medication
xanax
schizophrenia medication
thorazine
