Unit 5- 5.5 Flashcards
played a role in mental health reform movement
Dorothea Dix
treating the effects of someone’s severe disorder
deinstitutionalization
treating mental disorders
psychotherapy
addresses mental health as a psychological intervention
biomedical therapy
integrates techniques and theories from various psychological schools and thoughts
eclectic approach
developed psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
a therapeutic technique to help clients
psychoanalysis
patients protecting themselves from revealing their problems
resistance
assigning the meaning of thoughts, feelings, behavior
interpretation
when patients develop strong feelings for their therapist
transference
focuses on understanding and resolving unconscious conflicts that influence someone’s thoughts, feelings, behaviors
psychodynamic therapy
helps someone gain their self-acceptance and to explore more on their mental health (thoughts, feelings, behaviors)
insight therapies
therapists providing clients acceptance and support
person-centered therapy
created person-centered therapy (one of the best humanistic therapist to exist)
Carl Rogers
encouraging clients to talk so you can listen
active listening
acceptance and support no matter what the clients says
unconditional positive regard
focuses on changing maladaptive behaviors to improve mental health
behavior therapy
replaces an unpleasant conditioning response with a pleasant one
counterconditioning
developed counterconditioning
Mary Cover Jones
developed systematic desensitization
Joseph Wolpe
helping clients overcome their fears by putting them in a situation they try to avoid
exposure therapies
helping clients replace anxiety with relaxation
systematic desensitization
treating client’s anxiety with technology/simulations
virtual reality exposure therapy
stopping an addiction with something negative
aversive conditioning
developed token economy
B.F skinner
rewarding good behavior with tokens and later using those tokens for a prize
token economy
giving a client a task which can reduce their depression, etc
cognitive therapy
developed rational emotive behavior therapy
Albert Ellis
questioning a client on scenarios that they think it’s so bad and embarrassing but really is not (messing up a sentence during a presentation)
rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
created cognitive therapy
Aaron Beck
giving clients tasks that have nothing to do with their behavior
cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
where people with the same experience get put together to talk to each other
group therapy
family members having therapy together to resolve behavior
family therapy
seeking info to support beliefs
confirmation bias
using results of clients to see the difference with people who got therapy and the people who didn’t
meta-analysis
clinical decision makes the best research with clinical expertise
evidence-based practice
the trust between a therapist and client
therapeutic alliance
drug treatments to help with anxiety, depression
psychopharmacology
blocks receptors sites for dopamine
antipsychotic drugs
medication to treat anxiety
antianxiety drugs
medication to treat depression and mood swings
antidepressant drugs
a form of somatic therapy (bilateral - 2 hemispheres, unilateral 1 hemisphere)
electroconvulsive therapy
applies magnetic pulses to brain to stimulate brain activity
transcranial electrical stimulation (TES)
destruction of part of the brain that changes someone’s behavior
psychosurgery
surgical procedure that involves connections with the pre-frontal cortex
lobotomy
can reduce anxiety and stress
hypnosis
created the theory of hypnosis
Ernest Hilgard
a split between levels of consciousness
dissociation
when an hypnotic trance, they tend to carry out after they wake up from hypnosis
posthypnotic suggestion
positive psychological changes that struggles with challenging circumstances and life crisis
posttraumatic growth
