Psychiatry Clerkship Shelf Lange Psychological Treatment And Management

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What is the goal of supportive therapy?

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The goal is to strengthen current defense mechanisms

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What is the goal psychodynamic psychotherapy?

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The goal is to change the patient's personality: interpreting transference, pointing out resistance, and character change. It is much more intense.

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What is the goal of cognitive therpy?

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The goal is to correct faulty ideas.

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What is the goal of existential psychotherapy?

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The goal is to explore feelings of meaninglessness in life and investigate the freedom of individuals

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What is the go-around technique?

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A group technique where all the people in the group answer a question so that everyone can get benefit from the different ideas.

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Acting out

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a behavior used to distract a patient who needs to relieve tension or gratify needs through activity rather than verbalization of uncomfortable feelings in a group

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Abreaction

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a process by which repressed material, particularly a painful experience of conflict is brought back to consciousness and is relived with an appropriate response

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Ventilation

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the expression of suppressed feelings, ideas, or events to other group members to relieve a sense of sin or guilt

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How do inpatient versus outpatient psychotherpy differ?

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- Inpatient: only deals with crisis intervention, return to previous level of unctioing, and preparation for outpatient therapy
- Outpatient: goal is personality change and reconstruction

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what is the best psychotherpy for borderline?

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both group and individual treatment
- group is good to stabilize mood and avoid countertransference

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What is the major focus of interpersonal psychotherpy?

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communication analysis

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what are dreams used for?

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provide psychic conflicts, which can be interpreted appropriately and lead to productive change in behavior

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What kind of patient is best for hypnosis? What kind of disorders?

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- patients that are responsive to suggestions
- can be used for anxiety disorder, pain, warts, hiccups
- not for psychotic disorders

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which psychotherapy is not useful for schizophrenics?

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psychoanalysis b/c patients who have difficulty with reality testing don't do well with the introspection and self-examination required in psychoanalysis
- it's overwhelming and might cause more harm than good

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What is brief psychodynamic therapy?

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identifies a single, focal area of conflict and spends the time of the therapy interpreting transference as they pertain to that single conflict

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sublimation

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channeling of unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable activities

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reciprocal inhibition

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- one response to some situation stimulus is substituted for another response e.g. anxiety for relaxation
- key for systematic desensitization

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what is biofeedback

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proces of giving a patient information on physiologic variables to alter those variables and ultimately the corresponding behavior

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what is undoing

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a concept by Freud in whic ha patient with OCD performs a compuslive act to prevent or undo the consequence from a feared impulse

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what is operant conditioning

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a response is rewarded or punished each time it occurs so that over time the response increaes or decreases in frequency

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who is the father of modern hypnosis?

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Franz anton Mesmer