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Ch. 14
Therapy
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/03/2013

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Psychoanalysis
Definition
focusing on your unconscious
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Humanistic Therapists
Definition
focusing on individuals
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Client-Centered Therapy
Definition
foundation of humantisitc therapy. Client does majority of talking, therapists listens and provides support
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Behavior Therapy
Definition
applies learning principles
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Systematic Desensitization
Definition
if someone has a phobia, you put them in a comfortable state and then expose them to fear gradually
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Aversive Conditioning
Definition

An unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior. with this technique, temporary conditioned aversion to alcohol has been reported

 

ex. classical conditioning

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Cognitive Therapy
Definition
Teaches people adaptive ways of thinking and acting based on assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
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Cognitive-behavior therapy
Definition

aims to alter the way people act (behavior therapy)  and alter the way they think (cognitive therapy)

- video on treating ocd

- get mad at OCD not yourself

- touch enevlope and touch the couch

Term
Cognitive Therapists
Definition
often combine the reversal of self- defeated thinking with efforts to modify behavior
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Family Thearpy
Definition
treats the family as a system. therapy guides family memebers toward positive relationships and improved communications
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Eye Movement desensitization and repocessing
Definition

eye tracker therapy

- not stood up to scientific testing

- people who got therapy said they didint feel better than people who didnt

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Light Exposure Therapy
Definition

- supported by research

- light mimics the sun

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Clinical Psychologists (PhD)
Definition
very few do therapy. learn how to be a researcher, clinician and professor. Free tuition and stipend
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Clincal Psychologists (PsyD)
Definition
more likely to do therapy. Get a PhD for clinician. Private instituions, so you pay your own way
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Counselors (MA)
Definition
most common. You helo people with normal everyday activites
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Clinical or Psychiatric Social Worker
Definition
masters in social work
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Psychiatrists (MD)
Definition
medical - how people react to drugs
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Culture and Values in Psychotherapy
Definition

Important to share same values and culture as client.

Health disparities - all types of people have equal opportunites for thearpy

- people want to find counselors similar to them

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Biomedical Therapies
Definition

1. Drug Therapies

2. Brain Stimulation

3. Psychosurgery

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Classical Antipsychotics
Definition
remove a number of positive symptons associated with schizophrenia such as ...... laughing when there is a death in the family
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Atypical Antipsychotics
Definition
remove negative symptons associated with schizophrenia such as ..... someone gives them a gift and they dont say thank you
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Antianxiety Drugs
Definition
Panic disorder, phobias PTSD, OCD, generalized anxiety disorder
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Antidepressant Drugs
Definition

major depressive disorder, bipolar

(prozac, zoloft, and  paxil)

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Mood-Stabilizing Medications
Definition

for bipolar

- doesnt let you get super depressed, or overly excited

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Electroconvulsive Thearpy
Definition

if they havent responded to medication and are sitll depressed

- runs electricity  through brain and body

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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Definition

-magnets that you put in your head

- reports of feeling better

- supported by random assignment

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Psychosurgery
Definition

start cutting the brain

- last resort

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