Unit 9 : Treatment to Abnormal Behavior Module 70-73

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psychotherapy

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interaction between therapist and patient to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth

Question 2

biomedical approach

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prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the persons physiology

physically changing the brain finctions by altering its chemistry with drugs , affecting circuit with electro conversive shock, magnetic impulses/ psychosurgery

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eclectic approach

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Flexible technique changes with each person

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psychoanalysis

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freud believed the patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapists interpretations of them - released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight

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resistance

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blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

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interpretation

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noting of dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promotes insight

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transferring

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patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships

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psychodynamic theory

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therapy views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight

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interpersonal psychotherapy

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12-16 session varioation of psychodynamic therapy that have effectively treated depression

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insight therapies

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increase a persons awareness of underlying motives and defenses

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client-centered therapy

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carl rogers; theraoists use techniques such as active listening, within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth (person centered therapy)

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active listening

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empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. feature of client centered therapy

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unconditional positive regard

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caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude which carl rogers believed would help clients to develop self awareness and self acceptance

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behavior therapy

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applies learning principles (classical/operant) to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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counter conditioning

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uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; incl exposure therapy and aversive conditioning

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exposure therapies

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treats anxiety by exposing people (in imagination / actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid

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systematic desensitization

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exposure therapy; associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Sommonly used to treat phobias

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virtual reality exposure therapy

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anxiety treament that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their fears

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aversive conditioning

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association of unpleasant state (nausea) with an unwanted behavior (drinking alcohol)

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behavior modification

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reinforcing desired behaviors and withholding reinforcement for undersized behaviors

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token economy

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people earn a token of somesort for exhibiting a desired behavior and exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats

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cognitive therapy

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teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
goal : make people unlearn negative thoughts about themselves

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rational emotive behavior (REBT)

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vigorously challenges poeples illogical, self defeating attitudes and assumptions

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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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interative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changeing behavior)
goal : make people aware of irrational negative thinking and replace with new ways to practice

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group therapy

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therapy conducted with group permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction

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family therapy

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treats the family as a system. Views the individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by directed at other family members

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psychopharmacology

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study of the effects of drugs on the mind and behavior

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antipsychotic drugs

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used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder

helps treat positive symptoms (hallucination and delusion) with side effects

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psychoses

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disorder in which hallucinations and delusions indicate loss of contact with reality

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antidepressant drugs

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treat depression, anxiety disorders, OCD and PTSD most used is SSRI

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selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

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antidepressants that block the reuptake of serotonin

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neurogenesis

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birth of new brain cells, perhaps reversing stress induced loss of neurons

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antianxiety

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used to control anxiety and agitations

depress the central nervous system activity

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electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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depressed patients receive brief electric current that is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

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repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

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

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psychosurgery

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surgery that removes and destrys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

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labotomy

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cutting the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion controlling centers of the inner brain

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cognitive revolution

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change of internal beliefs that changes behaviors