Exam 3 Therapies

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Biological therapies are sometimes called biomedical therapies. Define this term.

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-Treatment that reduces symptoms by altering aspects of body functioning.

Front 2

List 3 types of drug used for Drug Therapy and the associated disorders

Back 2

1. Anti-anxiety; anxiety disorder
2. Antidepressant; depressive disorder, and also effective for anxiety disorder/eating disorder
3. Antipsychotic Drug: schizophrenia
(and 4. stimulant; ADHD)

Front 3

Describe Electroconvulsive Therapy

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-aka shock therapy
-setts off seizures in the brain to cure a disorder
-used primarily for depressive disorder
-could result in memory loss

Front 4

Psychosurgery?

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-involves destrcution of brain tissue
-"prefrontal lobotomy": surgical instrument injected to severe frontal lobe and the thalamus-->less emotion

Front 5

Who is Walter Freeman?

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The champion of prefrontal lobotomies.

Front 6

Deep Brain stimulation?

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-implanting elctrodes deep in brain that electrically stimulates a part of brain
-for severe depression and OCD

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What is psychotherapy'?

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-Nonmedical treatment that helps individuals with psychologidcal disorder

Front 8

what is the ultimate goal in psychodynamic therapies?

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-goal is to bring unconscious conflicts into conscious awareness

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What is transference and resistance?

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-Transference: patient's relating to the analyst to reporduce relationships
-Resistance client's defense strategies that prevent the analysit from understanding his problem

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What are the 3 main techniques used by psychodynamic therapy?

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1. Free association: encouraging individual to read aloud whatever comes to mind.
2. interpretation: search for symbolic, hidden meaning
3. Dream analysis: manifest content and latent content; insgiht into unconscious

Front 11

What is Catharsis?

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-Release of emotional tension when relieving a confliciting experience in free association.

Front 12

How are contemporary psychodynamic therapies different from Freudian one?

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-less focus on sex
-more focuse on current relationships, specific problem, and power to conscious mind.

Front 13

How would you describe humanistic therapies?

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-people are encouraged to understand themselves and to grow persoanlly
-emphasis on self-healing capacities

Front 14

What is Rogerian Therapy?

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-Client centered/nondirective therapy
-therapist provides a warm, supportive atomsphere to improve client's self- concept and gain insight into problems.

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What is gaol of humanistic therapy?

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-help client identify and understand own genuine feelings rather than unlock secretes (psychodynamic.)

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Three techniques used in humanistic therapies?

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1. Unconditional positive regard
2. empathy
3. genuiness

Front 17

Behavior therpies are based on which theory and uses what kind of principle?

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behavioral and social cognitive theory
-uses principles of learning to reduce behavior

Front 18

What are the techniques of behavior therapies?

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1. Classical conditioning: exposure therapies (desensitizatio and flooding) & Aversive conditioning for undesirable behavior
2. Operant conditioning: careful analysis of person's enviroment and modifies; useful for people with low cognitive abilities

Front 19

Cognitive therapies says that _____ are the main source of problems.

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-Thoughts

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What is the fundamental idea behind "cognitive restructuring?"

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-our moods are driven by what we tell ourselves; thus, fundamental "faulty thinking," with the goal of replacing one's irrational, counter-factual beliefs with more accurate and beneficial ones.

Front 21

Cognitive Therapies differ from psychodynamic therapies.. in that they...

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-focuse more on overt symptoms, more structure to the thoughts and less concerned about the origin.

Front 22

List 3 Techniques (or sub-therapies) of Cognitive Therapy?

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1. Elli's Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
2. Beck's Cognitive Therapy
3. Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT)

Front 23

What are the three demands of humans according to Elli's Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)?

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1. i must perform well
2. other must treat me nicely
3. my life must be enjoyable

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What is the goal of Elli's Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)?

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- eliminating self-defeating thoughts and convert them into logical, realistic ones.

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Beck's Cognitive Therapy is used mainly for...

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-depressive disorders

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The goal of Beck's Cognitive Therapy is to

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bring automatic thoughts to awareness so they can be change

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Beck's Cognitive Therapy vs REBT

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REBT is more direct, persuasive, and confrontational. Beck's approach is open-ended dialogue between therapist and client.

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What techniques are used for cognitive behavior therapy?

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-emphasis on self-efficacy
-self-instructional methods: teaches individuals to modify their own behavior
-Reinforcing self-statements: statements that is repeated to take positive steps to cope with stress
-Role playing

Front 29

Cognitivie Therapies are used to treat 4 types of disorders. List them.

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1. Anxiety disorder
2. Mood disorder
3. Schizophrenia
3. Persoanlity disorder

Front 30

List four sub-therapies (techniques) in socio cultural therapy.

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1. group therapy
2. family/couple therapy
3. interpersonal therapy (IPT)
D. Self-help support groups

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How is group therapy effective and what are the forms?

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-effective because individual is outside the normal context of the relationships
-diverse forms include information, universaility, altruism, positive family group, development of social skills, interpersonal learning (training ground for praticing new behavior)

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4 techniques of family/couples therapy

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1. Validation: he/she finds something positive to say about family
2. Reframing: help families reframe problems as family problem, not of individual
3.structural change: tries to resturcutre coalitions in a family; suggesting to do sometime
4. detriangulation: shifting issue away from the source to the surrounding
4.

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What is interpersonal (IPT) therapy?

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-focuses on relationshops and attachment issue

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What is Self-support group?

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-Voluntary organizations aimed at helping with specific concerns