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Abnormal Psychology

Ch. 10

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Abnormal Psychology The scientific study of mental disorders and their treatment
2 categories of Therapy Biomedical & Psychological
3 Types of Biomedical 1. Drug Therapy 2. Shock Therapy 3. Psychosurgery
Biomedical Therapy uses drugs to treat disorder
4 types of Psychotherapy 1. Psychoanalytic 2. Humanistic 3. Behavorial 4. Cognitive
Major medications Lithium, antidepressants, antianxiety, antipsychotic
3 antidepressants MAO, tricyclics, SSRIs
2 antipsychotic drugs Traditonal & New Generation
most popular psychosurgery LOBOTOMY- connections to frontal lobes are removed
2 types of psychotherapy INSIGHT & ACTION
INSIGHT psychoanalytic & humanistic, stress thinking of person
ACTION behavorial and cognitive, stress action of person
Humanistic Theory ROger's CLient Centered Therapy
Behavorial THerapy uses classical and operant conditioning
3 counterconditioning exposer therapy systemati desensitiztion, virtual reality, and flooding
Cognitive THerapy- 2 people Ellis- rational emotive therapy and BEck's cognitive therapy
3 anxiety disorders agoraphobia, panic disorders, OCD
Rosenhan study went to hospitals and fake a disorder
medical school syndrome thinking you have a disorder when really you dont
most common mood disorder major depressive disorder
earliest biomedical treatment trephining- stone tool that cut away at a person's skull
most frequently used biomedical treatment drug therapy
ex. of antianxiety drugs valium and xanax
antipsychotic drugs abilify, thorazine
Created by: therealjor
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