Week 13-Therapies

Question 1

insight therapies

Answer 1

A form of psychotherapy where the goal is to expand awareness or
insight into how an individual’s past life experiences may influence
their thinking, feeling, and acting

Question 2

pSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPY

Answer 2

• Humans seek relief from tension
• The goal of most psychodynamic therapies is to make the
  unconscious conscious

Question 3

PSYCHOANALYSIS

Answer 3

• Developed by Freud, one of the first forms of therapy
• Conflicts affect the thoughts and emotions of the individual, and their
  source often remains outside of conscious awareness.
  -By accessing the unconscious mind, gain a better understanding of the early conflicts that led to neuroses (anxieties)

Question 4

Freud’s Psychoanalysis

Answer 4

• Goal is to decrease guilt and frustration by bringing the unconscious into the
  conscious
• Try to bring to awareness previously repressed impulses, conflicts, and memories
• Free association

Question 5

HUMANISTIC-EXISTENTIAL
PSYCHOTHERAPY
* Uses psychological dynamics to understand why individuals become
distressed

Answer 5

Assumes that human nature is fundamentally positive, rather than
emphasizing the essentially negative perspective advanced by
psychoanalytic approaches.
* Emphasize the importance of facing painful experiences

Question 6

PERSON-CENTERED THERAPY - ROGERS

Answer 6

Rogers was greatly influenced by Humanism
* Created Person-Centered therapy
* Rogers felt that
* People are experts of their own problems, and search for meaning and
purpose in life

Question 7

BEHAVIOURAL THERAPIES

Answer 7

• Based on Behaviourism
• Behavioural therapies attempt to address problem behaviours and the environmental factors that trigger them
• Behavioural therapy is not concerned about internal mental processes that cannot be observed

Question 8

Beck cognitive therapy

Answer 8

Psychological problems are an exaggeration
of adaptive responses resulting from
common cognitive distortions
▪ Distorted beliefs are the result of cognitive
errors
▪ Emphasis on helping individuals change
negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs

Question 9

Psychopharmacotherapy

Answer 9

• Use of medications to treat
  psychological disorder

Question 10

ELECTROCONVULSIVE SHOCK THERAPY
(ECT)

Answer 10

• E C T for severely depressed, suicidal patients.
• In electroconvulsive therapy, a mild electric current is passed
  through the brain for one to two seconds, causing a brief
  seizure.

Question 11

PSYCH0SURGERY

Answer 11

• For serious psychological disorders, severe chronic pain.
• Severe O C D, depression, bipolar disorders

Question 12

Lobotomy

Answer 12

• Psychosurgery severs nerve fibers connecting frontal lobes to
  deeper brain centers.

Question 13

Cingulotomy

Answer 13

• Electric currents through electrodes to destroy cingulum