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| differentiate between psychotherapy and biomedical therapy |
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psychotherapy: treatment involving psychological techniques; consist of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seekng to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
Biomedical therapy: prescribed medications or medical procedures |
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| which types of psychological disorders would each approach treat? |
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psychotherapy: learning related disorders, such as phobias.
biomedical therapy: schizophrenia, |
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| describe the eclectic approach |
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| an approach to psychotherabpy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy. |
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| be familiar with the aims of psychoanalysis |
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| freud believed the impulses and conflicts felt as a child were submerged i nour unconscious, where they act as fuel for the psychological problems of our adult years. He and his followers therefore tried to bring these repressed feelings into patients' conscious awareness. |
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| define psychodynamic therapy |
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| psychodynamic therapy: a Freud-influenced perspective that sees behavior, thinking, and emotions in terms of unconscious motives. |
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| what does each approach emphasize? |
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| be familiar with the basic concepts of operant conditioning and how it can be applied to therapy. pg356 |
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| what is behavior modification |
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| therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking an dacting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions |
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| after performing a statistical analysis of some 475 psychotherapy outcome studies, what did researchers find regarding the effectiveness of psychotherapy.(pg 360) (was psychotherapy effective) |
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| what type of drug is Xanax? |
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| What are some criticisms of this drug? |
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| physical dependence by taking whenever one feels stressed |
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| What types of drugs are Prozac |
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| what types of drug is paxil |
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| what tyep of drug is Zoloft |
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| what type of drug is Lithium? |
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| what is lithium used to treat? |
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| level emotional highs and lows of bipolar disorder. |
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| What is electroconvulssive therapy? |
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| a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient |
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| What disorder is electrconvulsive therapy used to treat. |
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| define interpersonal therapy. |
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| try to help people gain insight into the roots of their difficulties. rather than focusing mostly on undoing past hurts and offering interpretations, the therapist focuses primarily on understanding current relationships and improving relationship skills. |
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| define cognitive-behavioral therapy |
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| a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy. |
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