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| creator of rational emotive theory; believed that intertwined thought and feelings produce behavior |
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| includes elements of cognitive, behavioral, and emotion theory; psychological tenesion is created by activating eveents, applying certain beliefs, leasing to emotional disruption |
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| therapy is highly directive, therapist leads clients to dispute the previously applied irrational beliefs; goal for effective rational beliefs to replace self defeating ones, has been called too strile |
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| Perls, Wertheimer, KOffka; encourages people to stand apart from previous beliefs, attitudes to fully experience and perceive the present |
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| abnromal theory in gestalt theory |
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| derived from disturbances of awareness, , client not having insight or not fully eperiencing his present situation (not acknowledgeing certain aspects) |
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| therapist engages in dialogue with client, who learns from the shared dialogue, focusing on here-and-now; goal to exploration of awareness and full experience of the present; not suited for low function/disturbed clients |
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| Frankl; revolved arous issue of being v non being/meaningfulness v menainglessness; going towards will to meaning |
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| major contributor to existential therapy |
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| belief in existential theory that individual is constantly striving to rise above a simple behavior existence and toward a genuine and meaningful existence |
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| abnormal theory of existential theory |
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| response to perceived menainglessness in life is neurosis or neurotic anxiety (nonjustified anxiety) |
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| talking therapy in which deep quesstions relating to client's perception and meaning of existence are discussed; goal is to increase client's sense of being and meaningfulness; been called too abstract |
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| use of medication to treat mental illness; used to treat biological factors |
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| first drugs used to treat psychopathology, used on positive symptoms of schizophrenia, chlorpromazine (thorzine), haloperiodl (haldol) |
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| used to treat bipolar disorders; inhibit monoamines such as norepinephrine and serotonin; lithium |
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| reduce depressive symptoms, used to increase low levels of monoamines; MAOIs; SSRIs, Tricyclic antidepressants |
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| monoamine oxidase inhibitors; |
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| selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors; act only on serotonin |
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| tryclic chemical structure |
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| used to reduce anxiety or induce sleep; high potential for addiction and habituation; barbituated, bendodiazepenes, diazapem |
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| drug that changed the metabolism of alcohol, resulting in severe illness from drinking; used to coutnercondition alcoholics |
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| applied Freudian ideas to child psychology and development |
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| object relations theory; psychoanalysis with children |
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| Neo-freudian; emphasized culture and society over instinct, neuroticism as movement toward, away, and against people |
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| Neofreudian who emphasized social and interpersonal relationship |
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| general term that refers to theories that emphasize role of unconscious |
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| cognitive behavioral therapy |
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| employs principles from cogntive and behavioral therapy |
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| general term that refers to theories that emphasize psotivie, evolving free will in perople (client-centered, Gestalt, existential); known as "third force" in psychotherapy |
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| leader of humanistic movement; pyramid-like hierarchy of needs; asserted that humans start at the bottom with basic needs and work toward self actualization |
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| levels of hierarchy of needs |
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| basic needs, safety, love/acceptance, esteem, self actualization |
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| used with child clients, a child expressed emotions, situations or disturbances that might otherwise go unexpressed |
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| electroconvulsion shock therapy |
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| delivers electric currents to the brain and induces convulsions, effective for severe depression |
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| treats a family together and views the whole family as a client |
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| stress-inoculation theory |
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| Donald Meichenbaum, prepares people for forseeable stressors |
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| proved experimentally that abnormal behavior can be learned |
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| evidence based treatments |
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| treatment for mental health problems that has been drawn from empirical research |
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