Treatment Of Psychological Disorder

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Schizotypal
Paranoid
Schizoid

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odd/eccentric:
one of the three clusters of personality disorders

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Antisocial
Borderline
Histrionic
Narcissistic

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Dramatic/erratic:
one of the three clusters of personality disorders

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Avoidant
Dependent
Obsessive-Compulsive

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Anxious/inhibited:
one of the three clusters of personality disorders

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Psychotherapy

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an interaction between a therapist and someone suffering from psychological problem, with the goal of providing support or relief from the problem

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Electic psychotherapy

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treatment that draws on techniques from different forms of therapy, depending on the client and the problem

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Psychodynamic psychoterapies

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a general approach to treatment that explores childhood events and encourages individual to develop insight into their psychologial problems

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Free association

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step of how to develop insight with psychoanalysis:
report everyday thought without censorship or filtering

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Dream analysis

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step of how to develop insight with psychoanalysis:
disguised clues to unconscious

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Interpretation

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step of how to develop insight with psychoanalysis:
decipher meaning underlying what client says or does

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Analysis of resistence

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step of how to develop insight with psychoanalysis:
present interpretations to client and assess resistance

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Resistance

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a reluctanve to cooperate with treatment for fear of confronting unpleasant unconsious material

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Transference

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an event that occurs in psychoanalysis when the analyst begins to assume a major significance in the client's life an the client reacts to the analyst based on unonscious childhood fantasies

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Interpersonal psyhotherapy (IPT)

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a form of psychotherapy that focuses on helping clients improve current relationships

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Behavior therapy

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applying principles of learning to change problems;
a type of therapy that assumes that disorders behavior is learned and that symptom relief is achieved through changing overt maladaptive behaviors into more constructive behaviors

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Aversion therapy

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a form of behavior that uses positive punishment to reduce the frequency of an unwanted behavior

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Token economy

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a form of behavior therapy in which clientts are given tickets for desired behaviors, which they can later trade for rewards

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Exposure therapy

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an approach to treatment that involves confronting an emotion-arousing stimulus directly and repeately, ultimately leading to a decrease in the emotional response

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Systematic desensitization

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a precedure in which a client relaxes all the muscled of his or her body while imagining being in increasingly frightening situations

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Cognitive therapy

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emphasize the "meaning" of an event;
a form of psychotherapy that involves helping a client identify and correct any distorted thinking about self, others, or the world

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Rational emotive behavior therapy

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therapist points out errors in clients' thinkings;
one of the cognitive therapy

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Cognitive restricting

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a therapeutic approach that teaches clients to question the automatic beliefs, assumptions, and predictions that often lead to negative emotions and to replace negative thinking with more realistic and positive beliefs

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Mindfulness meditation

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a form of cognitive therapy that teaches an individual to be fully present in each moment; to be aware of his or her thoughts, feeling, andd sensations; and to detect symptoms before they become a problem

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Cognitive behavioral theory (CBT)

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a blend of cognitive an behavioral thrapeutic strategies

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Humanistic and extential therapies

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the idea that people are good, so find the good in the client:
emphasize natural tendency to strive for personal improvement

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Person-centered therapy

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an approach to therapy that assumes all individuals have a tendency toward growth an that this growth an by facilitated by acceptance and genuine reactions from the therapist

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Gestalt therapy

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an existentialist approach to treatment with the goal of helping the client become aware of his or her thoughts, behaviors, experiences, and feelings and to "own" or take responsiblity for them

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Group therapy

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people with same issues work together

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Antipsychotic medications

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medications that are used to treat schizophrenia and relatted psychotic disorders:
work well on positve but not on negative

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Psychopharmacology

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the study of drug effects on psychological states and symptoms

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Atypical antipyschotics

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appeal to affect both dopamine and serotonin receptors
:work on positive and negative a bit

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Antianxiety meditations

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drugs that help reduce a person's experience of fear or anxiety

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Antidepressants

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a class of drugs that help lift people's mood

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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a treatment that involves inducting a mild seizure by delivering an electrical shock to the brain

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

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a treatment that involves placing a powerdul pulsed magnet over a person'S scalp, which alters neuronal activity in the brain

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Phototherapy

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a treatment for seasonal depression that involves repeated exposure to bright light

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Psychosurgery

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surgical destruction of specific brain areas

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Placebo

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an inert substance or procedure that has been applied with the expectation that a healing response will be produced

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Latrogenic illness

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a disorder or symptom that occurs as a result of a medical or psychotherapeutic treatment