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Chapter 16 Psychological and Biological Treatments
Psyc1001 MTA
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
04/13/2011

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Insight Therapies
Definition
pschotherapies, including psychodynamic and humanistic-existentual approaches, with the goal of expanding awareness or insight
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Psychoanalysis
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  1. Free association: technique in which patients express themselves without censorship of any sort
  2. Interpretation: from the string of free associations analysts form hypotheses regarding the origin of the patient's difficulties
  3. Dream Analysis: dreams express unconcious themes that influence the patient's daytime experience
  4. Resistane: attempts to avoid confrontation and axiety associated with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions and impulses
  5. Transference: projecting intense, unrealistic feelings and expectations from the past onto the therapist
  6. Work through: to confront and resolve problems, conflicts, and ineffective coping responses in everyday life

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Behaviour Therapy
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Systematic desensitization: patients are taught to relax as they are gradually exposed to what they fear in a stepwise manner

Exposure therapy: therapy that confronts patients with what they fear with the goal of reducing the fear

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Cognitive Therapy
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cognitive-behavioural therapy: treatment that attempts to replace maladaptive or irrational cognitions with more adaptive, rational cognitions
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Psychotherapy Effective
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80% of treatment people have better outcomes than the average untreated person
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Pharmacological Therapy
Definition
use of medication to treat psychological problems
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Definition
patients recieve brief electrical pulses the brain that produce a seizure to treat serious psychological problems
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Psychosurgery
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brain surgery to treat psychological problems

Vagus nerve Stimulation: implanted under breast bone in cases of serious treatment-resistant depression

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