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4 types of psychological therapists

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1. clinical psychologists

2. psychiartrists

3. social workers

4. counselors

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4 Major therepeutic orientations

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1. Psychoanalysis

2. Humanistic therapy

3. Behavior therapy

4. Cognitive therapy

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Who develeoped psychoanalysis?

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Sigmund Freud

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What is the aim of psychoanalysis?

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To bring repressed feelings into concious awareness where the patient can deal with them.

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Method of psychoanalysis

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free association

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Free association

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The patient edits his thoughts, resisting hir or her feelings to express emotions

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resistance

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Unconscious defense against awareness of repressed experiences to avoid resulting anxiety

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Transference

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The process by which emotional attitudes, established originally toward parental figures in childhood (long repressed), are transferred in later life to others (= therapist)

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Psychodynamic therapy

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Focus on childhood experiences in understanding current problems

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Interpersonal therapy

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Focus on current relationships. Has been found to be especially helpful with depression. Focuses on symptom relief here and now, not an overall personality change.

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Positive of Psychodynamic theraphy

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promoted tolerance of mental illnesses

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Negative of Psychodynamic (4)

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1. untestable

2. hard to refute because it cannot be proven or disproven.

3. concept of "repressed memories" has been criticized

4. takes a long time and is expensive

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Who created humanistic therapy?

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Carl Rogers

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Aim of humanistic therapy

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boost self-fullfillment by helping people grow in self awareness and self acceptance

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assumptions

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mental illness derives from attempting to earn others' positive regard rather then following an inner compass

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3 Necessary conditions for therapeutic change in humanistic therapy.

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1. congruence

2. unconditional positive regard

3. empathy

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Congruence

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Congruent therapist expresses the behaviors, feelings, or attitudes that the client stimulates in him

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Unconditional positive regard

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Acceptance is given with no conditions. Unconditional respect for the client as a human being

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Empathy

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transmitting to the client a sense of being understood.

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Positive of Humanistic therapy (2)

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1. Therapuetic relationship still retained

2. First to systematically analyze therapy outcome

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Negative of Humanistic therapy (3)

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1. criticized as being unscientific, subjective, and unreligious 2. directive therapies found to be more effective for many problems 3. not suitable for serious mental disorders

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Who created the behavior therapy theory?

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Joseph Wolpe

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2 Classical Conditioning techniques.

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1. counterconditioning

2. classical conditioning

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counterconditioning

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procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behavior

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3 Classical conditionsing based techniques

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1. systematic desensitization

2. exposure therapy

3. aversive conditioning

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What is aversive conditioning used for?

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Alcoholics- giving people drugs to get sick when they drink

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Systematic descensitization

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Learning relaxation techniques and use them in fear provoking stimuli

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Exposure therapy

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A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli commonly used to treat phobias

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Operant conditioning procedures enable therapists to use .

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Behavior modification

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Behavior modification

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Desired behaviors are rewarded and undesired behaviors are either unrewarded or punished

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Token economy

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based on principles of operant conditioning.

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Positive of Behavior Therapy (2)

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1. Effective with anxiety disorders

2. relatively easy to administer

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Negatives of Behavior Therapy (2)

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1. only treats symptoms- doesn't touch underlying causes

2. ignores beliefs which may be important maintaining factors