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Psychotherapy Definition? 2 types? |
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this kind of therapy is the kind which involves talking things out with a professional.
1. Insight therapy- aimed at understanding one's motives and actions.
2. Action therapy- directed more at changing the behavior, not finding reasons behind it. |
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Biomedical Therapy Definition? drawbacks? |
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therapy through drug treatment, surgical and shock treatments.
biomedical therapy only alleviates symptoms does not cure it. |
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Psychoanalysis Definition? |
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an insight therapy which aims to reveal the unconcious conflicts, urges, and desires which are causing the disorder. the patient would sit on a couch to relax them and make it comfortable so they could easily get at the early childhood memories.
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4 techniques with in freud's pschoanalysis? |
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Dream interpretation Free association- or talking about what ever popped into the patients head Resistence- find the areas where the patient refuses to talk more about. Transference- therapist becomes parental authority figure so the patient is comfortable spilling what he is thinking.
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a newer more general term for therapies based on psychoanalysis, with an emphasis on transference, shorter treatment times, and a more direct therapudic approach. |
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client-centered therapy who? definition? |
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Carl Rogers
a nondirective insight therapy in which the client does all the talking and the therapist listens with warmth and acceptance.
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Behavior therapy Definition? |
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action therapies based on the principles of classical and operant conditioning and aimed at changing disordered behavior without concern for the original cause of the behavior.
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sytematic desensitization definition? |
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behavior technique used to treat phobias, in which a client is asked to make a list of fears and taught to relax while concentrating on those fears. |
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counterconditioning definition? |
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replacing an old conditioned response with a new one by changing the unconditioned stimulus. ex. little albert experiment |
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token economy Definition? |
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the use of objects called tokens to reinforce behavior in which the tkens can be accumulated and exchanged for desired items or privileges. |
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Cognitive behavioral therapy Definition? |
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action therapy in which the goal is to help clients overcome problems by learning to think more rationally and logically. |
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cognitive distortions 5 types? |
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1. abitrary inference- jumping to conclusions with out evidence. 2. Selective Thinking- person focuses on one aspect of a situation and ignores all other relevant aspects. 3. Overgeneralization- person draw a sweeping conclusion and then applies it to other areas which it has nothing to do with original event. 4. magnification/minimization- Blows bad things out of proportion while ignoring the good things. 5. personalization- takes responsibility/blame for things that had nothing to do with them. |
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Group (family) Therapy Definition? |
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gathers a group of people with similar problems and have them discuss their problems under guidance of 1 single therapist. |
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1. Antipsychotic Drugs- treat hallucinations, delusions, and bizarre behavior. 2. Antianxiety Drugs- sedative effect with in 30 mins of taking drug, but subject to abuse. typically minor tranquilizers 3. Antimanic drugs- treatment of bipolar and episodes of mania. lithium and anticonvulsant drugs. 4.Antidepressant drugs- MAOI's and Tricyclic antidepress. then came SSRI's |
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Electroconvulsive therapy is a shock to one or both sides of head causing a seizure or convulsion and a release of neurotransmitters in brain. an almost immediate mood boost. |
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Psychosurgery definition? 2 types? |
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cutting into the brain and removing tissue to relieve symptoms.
Pre-frontal Lobotomy- was earliest form and was a severing of the connections between the prefrontal lobe and the rear portions of brain. Bilateral cingulotomy- magnetic resonance imaging is used to put an electrode into the cingulated gyrus and then a current is run thru electrode allowing for a controlled and specific destruction of tissue. |
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