Week 8 Flashcards
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Psychotherapy
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- Treatment of psychological disorders
- Help people change their thinking and increase functioning
- Many different approaches
2
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Mental Health Services
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- Wide range of treatements
- Clinical psychologists
- Counselling psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Multidisciplinary teams
3
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Deinstitutionalisation
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- Positive: avoids life distruptions, greater freedom.
- Limitations: may not have anywhere to go, may not be ready to go back to the commuinty.
4
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Psychodynamic Therapies
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- Assumes personality and behaviour reflect ego.
- Psychoanlaysis aimes to understand unconscious effects.
- Understanding psychological processes.
5
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Therapeutic Techniques
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- Free association
- Dream analysis
- Interpretation
- Analysis of transference
6
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Behaviour Therapy
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- Behavaiour therapy: based on classical conditioning
- Behaviour modification: operant conditioning
- Cognitive behavioural therapy: changing thoughts and behaviours
- Effecttive change though extinguishing maladaptive behaviours.
7
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Systematic Desensitisation
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- Used for anxiety, specifically phobias.
- 4 steps: relaxation techniques, develop heirachy of fear, desensitisation, confront fears
8
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Exposure Therapy
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- Classical conditioning techniques
- Exposure techniques
- Flooding
- Gradual exposure
- Virtual reality exposure therapy
9
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Positive Reinforcement
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- Operant conditioning techniques
- Positive reinforcement: preferred over positive punishment
- Punishment can generate undesirable effects
10
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapies
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- Focus on client cognitions
- Basic principles
- Modelling, monitoring behaviour
- Behaviour modification
11
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Humanistic Therapies
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- Docus on how the patient experiences their self
- Client centred therapy
- Therapies create supportive environments
- Evaluates clients feelings
12
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Gestalt Therapy
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- Peopel create their own versions of reality
- Make people be aware of the present
- Promote self awareness
13
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Group Therapy
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- Can see clients interact
- Members can boost each others confidence
- Can lean from each other
- Therapist selects goals for the group
14
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Group Therapy Advantages
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- Cost effective and efficient
- More affordable for the client
- Appreciate that others also expeience difficulties
15
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Electroconvulsive Therapies
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- Biomedical tretament in which electric shocks produce a cortical seizure accompanied by convlusions.
- Can lead to memory loss, impaired attention
