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Philippe Pinel |
Unchained inmates in an asylum in Paris and began the movement of humane treatment of mentally ill persons. |
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Psychotherapy |
Individual, couple, small group. Work directly with a therapist and discuss concerns or problems. Helps mentally healthy and psychologically disordered persons understand themselves better |
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Insight Therapy |
Understanding of one's motives and actions |
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Action Therapies |
Changing one's motives and actions |
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Psychoanalysis |
Insight therapy that reveals the unconscious conflicts, urges, and desires that cause disordered emotions and behavior |
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Free Association |
Freely expressing what came to the mind. Reveal things that are loosely associated with their flow of ideas. Reveals hidden concerns |
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Person-Centered Therapy |
Client (Person) is literally the center of the therapy. |
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Behavioral Therapy |
Action based. Change behavior through the use of learning techniques |
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Systematic Desensitization |
Series of steps meant to reduce fear and anxiety. Used to treat phobias. Three-Step Process. Relax, List, Fear Confrontation |
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Aversion Therapy |
Reduce frequency of an undesirable behavior. Pair an unpleasant stimulus with the stimulus thatbresults in undesirable response |
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Token Economy |
Tokens can be traded in for food, candy, treats, or special privileges. Earn tokens for behaving correctly, or accomplishing behavioral goals. |
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Contingency Contract |
Formal agreement between the therapist and client in which both parties' responsibilities are clearly stated |
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Cognitive Therapy |
Helps people change their way of thinking |
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Arbitrary Interference |
Jumping to conclusions without evidence. |
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Selective Thinking |
Focusing only on one aspect of a situation. |
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Overgeneralization |
Draws a sweeping conclusion from one incident and then assumes that the conclusion applies tonareas of life that have nothing to do with tagt event. |
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Magnification & Minimization |
Person blows bad things out of proportion while not emphasizing good things |
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Personalization |
Takes responsibility or blame for events that are not really connected to the individual |
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy |
Focuses on the present rather than the past. Assumes that people interact with the world (observe the world, people around them, make assumptions based on those observations, etc.) |
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Group Therapy |
Group of clients with similar problems gather to discuss the problems under the guidance of a single therapist |
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Goals of Family Therapy |
Discover the unhealthy ways in which family members interact and change those ways to be healthier |
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Self-Help Group |
People meet with others who have similar problems with no therapist in charge |
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Advantages of Group Therapy |
Helps people who may be unable to afford individual psychotherapy. Offers social and emotional support from other people |
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Psychotherapy Stats |
75-90% of people think psychotherapy has helped them |
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Antipsychotic Drugs |
Drugs used to treat hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, etc. Chlorpromazine, |
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Lithium |
Evens out highs and lows of bipolar disorder |
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Electroconvulsive Therapy |
Delivery of an electric shock to one or both sides of a persons head resulting in a seizure |
