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Psych Exam2 Ch.13
Boom Dizzle Chapter 13
Question | Answer |
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Treatment - Psychotherapy | Treatment in which at rained professional – a therapist – uses psychological techniques to help someone overcome psychological difficulties and disorders. |
Treatment - Biomedical Therapy | Relies on drugs and other medical procedures to improve psychological functioning |
Treatment - Psychodynamic therapy | Relies on drugs and other medical procedures to improve psychological functioning. |
Psychodynamic Approaches to Therapy | Seek to bring unresolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses from the unconscious into the conscious •Psychoanalysis consists of frequent sessions that often last for many years. o Free association o Dream interpretation o Resistance o Transfe |
Behavioral Approaches to Therapy - Make the fundamental assumption: | Both abnormal behavior and normal behavior are learned. |
Behavioral Approaches to Therapy - Classical Conditioning Treatments | o Aversive conditioning o Systematic desensitization o Exposure treatments |
Behavioral Approaches to Therapy - Operant conditioning Techniques | o Token System o Contingency contracting o Observational learning |
Cognitive Approaches to Therapy | • All forms of therapy share assumptions: Dysfunction due to maladaptive thinking. • Teach people to think in more adaptive way by changing maladaptive thinking. |
Rational-emotive behavior therapy | Attempts to restructure a person’s belief system into a more realistic, rational, and logical set |
The Humanistic Approach, assumes: | o People control their own behavior o Can make choices about the kinds of life they want to lead. o Are responsible for solving their own problems |
Person-centered therapy | The goal is the enable people to reach their potential for self-actualization. |
Group Therapy | Unrelated people meet with therapist to discuss common difficulty |
Family Therapy | Involves two or more family members, one (or more) of whose problems led to treatment. |
Self-Help Therapy | People with similar problems get together to discuss their shared feelings and experiences Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) |
Effectiveness of Psychotherapy (Evaluating Psychotherapy) | o Is effective for most people o Doesn’t work for everyone o Certain specific types of treatments are somewhat, although not invariably, better for specific types of problems |
Effectiveness of Psychotherapy (Evaluating Psychotherapy)(REST OF BULLET POINTS) | o No single form of therapy works best Spontaneous remission: Recovery without treatment |
Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment | Therapy that focuses on brain chemistry and other neurological factors |
Antipsychotic Drugs (Drug Therapy) | Reduce severe symptoms of disturbance, e.g., as loss of touch with reality and agitation |
Antidepressant Drugs (Drug Therapy) | In case of severe depression, improve the moods of patients. |
Mood stabilizers | Treat mood disorders |
Antianxiety Drugs | Reduce the level of anxiety and increase feelings of well-being. |
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) | A procedure in which an electric current of 70 to 150 volts is briefly administered to a patient’s head, causing a loss of consciousness and often seizures. |
Psychosurgery | Brain surgery in which the object is to reduce symptoms of mental disorder – used only rarely today. |
Prefrontal Lobotomy (Psychosurgery) | Surgically destroying or removing parts of a patient’s frontal loves that were thought to control emotionality |
Cingulotomy (Psychosurgery) | A precise form of psychosurgery used with rare cases of OCD. |
Community Psychology: Focus on Prevention | • Prevent or minimize the incidence of psychological disorders • Deinstitutionalization o Transfer of former mental patient out of institution and into the community |