Unit 13 - Treatment of Psychological Disorders Flashcards
mental health therapies that involve prescribed drugs or other procedures that act directly on a patients physiology/nervous system
biomedical therapies
what is the biggest biomedical therapy
drugs
an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
eclectic approach
what type of technique is psychoanalysis and who came up with it?
Sigmund freud’s therapeutic technique
patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapists interpretations of them - released previously repressed feeling allowing the patient to gain self-insight
psychoanalysis
what is the goal of psychoanalysis
to help us uncover the unconscious problem
who came up with psychoanalysis
Sigmund freud
therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
psychoanalysis
Freud’s modern day techniques
psychodynamic therapy
views psychology from a psychoanalytic perspective
psychoanalyst
psychoanalysis / sigmund freud
method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
free association
in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
ex. hesitation to free associate
resistance
a clients expression toward a therapist of feelings linked with earlier life relationships
transference
a brief variation of psychodynamic therapy that has been effective in treating depression
gain insight into roots of difficulties
symptom relief in the here and now
interpersonal psychotherapy
aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing patients awareness of their own motives and defenses
insight therapy
what are three things to relate Carl Rogers to
- humanistic therapy
- client-centered therapy
- active listening
emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people and the individuals potential for personal growth and self-awareness
humanistic therapy
humanistic therapy / Carl rogers
important feature of client-centered therapy
active listening
therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
behavior therapy
a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors
ex. overcoming a child’s fears of the dark: hugging and rocking your child to sleep after turning off the lights
counterconditioning
what includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning
counterconditioning
a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)
aversive conditioning
behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxiety’s by exposing people to the tings they fear and avoid
exposure therapies
a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli
derived from classical conditioning principles
systematic desensitization
an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
token economy
confrontational cognitive therapy in which therapists challenge peoples illogical statements
rational-emotive behavior therapy
therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
how do we cognitively interpret events
ex. everything is my fault
cognitive therapy
an integrated therapy that aims to modify both self-defeating thinking and maladaptive actions
cognitive-behavior therapy
phenomenon that refers to the tendency for extraordinary or unusual events to be followed by more ordinary events
regression toward the mean
a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different studies
meta-analysis
clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and an understanding of patient characteristics
evidence-based practice
involves the study of how drugs affect mind and behavior
psychopharmacology
what type of drug of is thorazine
antipsychotic drug
drug that has provided the most help to schizophrenia patients experiencing auditory hallucinations and paranoia
thorazine
appear to produce therapeutic effects by blocking receptor sites for dopamine
-drug that has provided the most help to schizophrenia patients experiencing auditory hallucinations and paranoia
antipsychotic drugs
involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs caused by long term use of certain antipsychotic drugs
tardive dyskinesia
what type of drugs are Xanax and Ativan
antianxiety drugs
designed to depress central nervous system activity
Xanax and Ativan
selective-serotonin-reuptake-inhibitors (slow the synaptic vacuuming up of serotonin)
Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil
what type of drugs are Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil
anti-depressants
salt that has been found to be effective in the treatment of bipolar disorder
lithium
proven to be effective in the treatment of depression
electroconvulsive therapy
surgically cutting the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
lobotomy
