Unit 13- Treatment Of Psychological disorders

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Eclectic approach

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An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy

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Psychotherapy

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Trained therapist uses psychological techniques to assist someone, biologically influenced disorders such as schizophrenia are treated with biomedical therapy

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Psychotherapy integration

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Attempts to combine a selection of assorted techniques into a single, coherent system

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Biomedical therapy

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Used to treat biologically influenced disorders such as schizophrenia

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Psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences-and the therapists interpretations of them-released previously repressed feelings, allowing patient to gain self insight

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Free association

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Freud used it- lie down with analyst out of view and say whatever comes to mind

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Resistance

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In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

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Interpretation

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In psychoanalysis, the analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight (underlying wishes, feelings, and conflicts)

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Transference

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In psychoanalysis, the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)

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Psychodynamic therapy

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Therapy deriving from psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self insight (May talk face to face once a eek for only a few weeks)

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Interpersonal psychotherapy

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A brief variation of psychodynamic, effective in treating depression

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Insight therapies

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A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the clients awareness of underlying motives and defenses

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Client-centered therapy

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A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapsids uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate patients growth

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Active listening

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Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers client-centered therapy

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Unconditional positive regard

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A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance

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Behavior therapy

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Therapy that applies learning principles to elimination of unwanted behaviors (they doubt the healing power of self-awareness)

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Counter conditioning

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A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning

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Exposure therapies

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Behavioral techniques, such as systemic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things that they fear and avoid

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Systematic desensitization

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A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias (progressive relaxation to train to relax one muscle group after another until drowsy state)

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Virtual reality exposure therapy

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An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking

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Aversive conditioning

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A type of counter conditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol

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Token economy

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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

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Cognitive therapy

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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

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Stress inoculation training

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Teaching people to restructure their thinking in stressful situations

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Cognitive behavioral therapy

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A popular, integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)

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Family therapy

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Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members- work to heal relationships and open up communication

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Regression toward the mean

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The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward the average

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Randomized clinical trial

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Researchers randomly assign people on a waiting list to therapy or to no therapy, and later evaluate everyone, using tests and reports of people who don’t know whether therapy was given

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Meta-analysis

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A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

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Evidence-based practice

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Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences

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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)

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Have people imagine traumatic experience and wave finger in front of eyes “enabling” them to unlock and reprocess previously frozen memories

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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

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Form of depression in the winter, morning bright light dims symptoms

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Biomedical therapy

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Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous system (only psychiatrists)

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Psychopharmacology

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The study of the effects of drugs on the mind and behavior

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Antipsychotic drugs

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Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder

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Tardive dyskinesia

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Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors

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Anti anxiety drugs

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Drives used to control anxiety and agitation (depress central nervous system activity) Xanax and Ativan

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Antidepressant drugs

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Drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters

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Selective-serotonin-reputake-inhibitors (SSRI)

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Treat depression, slow the synaptic vacuuming up of serotonin

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Mood-stabilizing drugs

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Such as lithium, a simple salt can be an effective mood stabilizer

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Electro convulsive therapy (ECT)

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A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

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The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity

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Psychosurgery

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Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

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Lobotomy

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A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain

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Resilience

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The personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma