UNIT 2- PSYCH THEORIES & THERAPIES Flashcards
What is stigma?
Negative or steriotypical view of someone with a mental illness, creates prejudice and discrimination. It is a mjaor barrier to mental health treatment and recovery. It contributes to fear, recjection and results in isoluation and reduced oppurtuinity.
What influences our mental health?
- Genetics
- Brain chemistry
- Life experiences
What is mental health?
State of well-being in which indivdual realizes potenital, copes with normal stresses, works productively, contributes to community.
Successful performance of mental and emotional functioning
What is resilience?
Ability to recover from or adjust sucsessfully to stressors, loss and trauma
What is NAMI take on mental health?
- Affects a person’s thinking, mood, and feelings
- Can make it difficult to relate to others
- May affect ability to function day to day
- Treatable
What are attributes of mental health?
- Abilit to work and be productive
- Maintain a healthy self concept and self-value
- Ability to play and laugh
- Accurate apprasial of realility
- Can navigate interpersonal conflict- know right from wrong
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What are factors affecting mental health?
- Environmental experience
- Bullying, active shooter
- Biological hormones, genetics
- Family and friends
- neglect mental disorder, tramatic childhood in the home
- Negative influecnes, psychosocial stressors, poverty, impaired parenting
- Cultural religious differences
- Some religions are more rigid than others
- Spirituatility/religion
- Health practices & beliefs
- Personalility traits
What is the DSM5?
- Guidebook for categorizing and diagnosing psychiatric mental health disorders in the US
- Lists specific criteria for each mental disorder
- Standardizes language
- Identifies symptoms and quantifies them
- Assists in identifying underlying causes
What should we know about culture and mental illness?
- Influences how symptoms are viewed
- Influences our ability to cope with symptoms
- Health seeking behviors influenced
- Developed countries seek help from psychaiatrisis/nurse practitioners
- Indigenious cultutres see a spiritual component and may seek shaman, healers, curanderos
- Culture bound syndrome
- Running amok- SE asia, someone runs around being violent
- Pibloktoq- uncontrollable desire to remove clothing and expose onself to extreme cold
- Anorexia Nervosa- Recognized in North America, Europe, and Austrilla and unheard of in many other societies.
Sigmund Frued psychoanalytic theory claims
Psychologoical distrubances are the result of early trauma and incedents that are not often remembered or recognized.
What is the conscious mind?
Current awareness, thoughts, beliefs and feelings.
The conscious mind, the preconscious mind, and unconscious mind are part whose theory?
Sigmund Freud psychoanalytic theory
What is the preconcious mind?
Mind lies immediately below the surface. Content is not currenlty the subject of our attention but it is accessible w/conscious effort
What is the unconscious mind?
Most of our primitive feelings, drives, and memories reside esp. those that are unbarable and traumatic
What is the ID?
Primitive, pleasure seeking and impulsive part of our personalilty that lurks in the unconscious mind.
What is the ego?
Problem solver and reality tester that navigates in the outside word. It acts as an intermediary between the ID and reality by using ego defense mechanisms, such as repression, denial, rationalization.
What is the super ego?
Represents the moral component of the personaility of “our conscience” (right from wrong). Greatly influenced by parents/caregivers moral and ethical stances.
Freud believed fixation through overindulgence or frustration results in….
conditions and personaliity disorders.
What do we need to know about psychoanalytic thearpy?
Frueds anwser for a sceintific method to relieve emotional distrubances
Goal: To know and understand what is happening at the unconscious level in order to uncover the truth
Thearpy is 3-5 times a week for many years– emotionally painful proces
Free association used
What is free association and which thearpy is it seen with?
Psychoanalytic thearpy
Free association is used to search for forgotten and repressed memories.
Example: What do you think of when I say winter… pt encouraged to say what comes to mind. Which can reveal long forgotten and traumatic events…. that come to mind when pt thinks of cold weather
What do we need to know about psychodynamic therapy?
Related to psychoanalytic therapy views mind in the same way.
Shorter sessions (10-12)
Therapies take more of an active role because the therapeutic relationship is part of the healing process
Transference can occur
What is transference?
Patient projects intense feeling onto the therapist related to unfinished work from previous relationhships- crucial for succsess
Example– pt acts immature in the presence of a therapist that reminds them of a parent
What is countertransference?
Psychodynamic therapist must recognize thier unconcsious emotional response to the patient in order to prevent damage
What is repression?
Defense mechanisim: The unconscious mechanism employeed by the ego to keep distrubing or threatening thoughts from becoming concious
What is denial?
Defense mechanism: Involves blocking external events from awareness if some situation is just too much to handle. The person will refuse to to experience it.
What is projection?
Defense mechanism: This involves individuals attributing their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings and motives to another person.
What is displacement?
Defense mechanism: Satisfying an impulse with a substitue object
What is regression?
Defense mechanism: This a a movement back in psychological time when one is faced with stress
What is sublimation?
Defense mechanism: Satisfying an impuslse w/a substitute object in a socially acceptable way.
example sports instead of impulse
What is interpersonal thearpy… who created it and what should we know about it?
Herbert “Harry” stack Sullivan
1. Believed that special forces and interpersonal problems were the cause of psychiatric alterations
2. Humans are driven by the need for interaction
3. Loneliness is the most painful human experience
4. Early relationships with primary caregiver is crucial for personalility
5. Anxiety is based on approval or disapproval of significant caregiver
6. All behavior is based on avoiding anxiety and threats to self esteem
7. Focus is on the “good me”
8. Personalility can be influenced as a child and an adult
What should we know about the interpersonal therapeutic model of therapy?
- IPT (interpersonal therapeutic model)- is a hands on system in which therapisits actively guide and challange mal-adaptive behaviors and distorted views.
- If people are aware of thier dysfunctional patterns and unrealistic expectations, they can modify them.
- The foucs is on the HERE & NOW.
- Emphasis on patients life and relationship at home at work and socially
- Therapist becomes a “participant observer” and reflects the patients interpersonal behavior, including responses to the therapist.
List 3 behavioral theorists
- Ivan Pavlov
- John B. Watson
- B.F Skinner
What is Ivan Pavlov known for?
Behavioral theorist
1. Classical coniditioning
2. Pavlov dogs
What should we know about John B. Watson
He was a behavioral theorists
1. Personalility traits and responses, adaptive and maladaptive are learned
2. “little albert”- 9m old child conditioned to be afraid of the sight of white fur or hair… also considered classical conditioning.
What should we know B.F skinner?
- Operant coniditoning- voluntary behaviors are learned through consequences of postive reinforcement or negative reinforcement/punishment
What is the goal of the behavior theraputic model?
Attempt to correct or eleiminate maladaptive behavior
What is systematic desensitilization?
Part of the behavior therapeutic model
1. Based on classical coniditoning
2. Relaxation and exposure to anxiety provoking stimuli
3. Sucsessful in the treatment of extreme fears and phobias
Exposing them to a stressor slowly until they are no longer bothered
What is aversion therapy?
Part of the behavioral therapeutic model
1. Based on both classical conditioning
2. Used to eradicate unwanted habits by associating unpleasent consequences with them
3. Antabuse- for alcohol addictions
4. Biofeedback- control physiological responses such as breathing, brain wavies, temp, hr, bp, breathing, by providing auditory and visual feedback of physicological responses and then usuing relaxation techniques to chance physiological responses
What is the belief of humanistic theory?
Belief: concerned with the hman potentional for development, knowledge, attainment, motiviation, and understanding.
“Maslow hiarchy of needs”
Basic needs must be met before higher ones can be achieved