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| Two kinds of treatments for psychological disorders.. |
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1. psychotherapy- in which a person interacts with a psychotherapist
2. medical or biological treatments- the mental disorder is treated with drugs or surger
In some cases both psychotherapy and biological treatments are used. |
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| an interaction between a therapist and someone suffering from a psychological problem, with the goal of providing support or relief from the problem |
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| a form of psychotherapy that involves drawing on techniques from different forms of therapy, depending on the client and the problem |
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| psychodynamic psychotherapies |
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| explore childhood events and encourage individuals to use this understanding to develop insight into their psychological problems. |
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when the analyst begins to assume a major significance in the client's life and the client reacts to the anylyst based on unconscious childhood fantasies.
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| agreed with Frued that insight was a key therapeutic goal but disagreed that insight usually involves unconscious conflicts about sex and aggression. Instead he emphasized collective unconscious, the culturally determined symbols and myths that are shared among all people that, he argued, could serve as a basis for interpretation beyon sex or aggression. |
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| agreed with Frued that insight was a key therapeutic goal but disagreed that insight usually involves unconscious conflicts about sex and aggression. Adler believed that emotional conflicts are the result of perceptions of inferiority and that psychotherapy should help people overcome problmes resulting from inferior social status, sex roles, and discrimination. |
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| Believed that primitive fantasies of loss and persecution were important factors underlying mental illness |
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| Disagreed with Frued about inherent differences in the psychology of men and women and traced such differences to society and culture rather than biology. |
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| What did Frueds, Jung, Adler, Klein, and Horney's approaches to psychotherapy have in common? |
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| They all stressed that the individual is part of a larger society and that conflicts can reflect the individual is part of a larger society and that conflicts can reflect the individual's role in that society. |
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| Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) |
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a form of psychotherapy that focuses on helping clients improve current relationships.
Therapists using IPT try to focus treatment on the persons interpersonal behaviors and feelings. As interpersonal relations improve, symptoms will subside. |
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| a type of therapy that assumes that disordered behavior is learned and that symptom relief is achieved through changing over maladaptive behaviors into more constructive behaviors. |
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| a form of behavior therapy in which clients are given "tokens" for desired behaviors, which they can later trade for rewards. |
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| Joseph Wolpe's, Exposure therapy |
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| an approach to treatment that involves confronting an emotion-arousing stimulus directly and repeatedly, ultimately leading to a decrease in the emotional response. |
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| systematic desensitization |
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| a procedure in which a client relaxes all the muscles of his or her body while imagining being in increasingly frightening situations. |
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| focuses on helping a client identify and correct any distorted thinking about self, others, or the world. |
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| involves teaching clients to question the automatic beliefs, assumptions, and predictions that often lead to negative emotions and to replace negative thinking with more realistic and positive beliefs. |
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| teaches an individual to be fully present in each moment; to be aware of his or her thoughts, feelings, and sensations; and to detect symptoms before they become a problem. |
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| cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) |
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| a blend of cognitive and behavioral therapeutic strategies. |
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| Developed by Carl Rogers, it assumes that all individuals have a tendency toawrd growth and that this growth can be facilitated by acceptance and genuine reactions from the therapist. |
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Essence of personality wrapped up in self- concept which is organization of perceptions about ones abilities.
Also developed the person-centered therapy. Encouraged person-centered therapists to demonstrate three basic qualities: congruence, empathy, and uncoditional positive regard. |
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| Founded by Frederick "Fritz" Perls and colleagues. Gestalt therapy has the goal of helping the client become aware of his or her thoughts, behaviors, experiences, and feelings and to "own" or take responsibility for them. |
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| a technique in which multiple participants work on their individual problems in a group atmosphere. |
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| treat schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders |
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| the study of drug effects on psychological states and symptoms |
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| Newer drugs that appear to affects both the dopamine and serotonin systems. |
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| electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) |
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| a treatment that involves inducing a mild seizure b delivering an electrical shock to the brain. |
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| transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) |
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| a treatment that involves placing a powerful pulsed magnet over a persons scalp which alters neuroal activity in the brain. |
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| a therapy that involves repeated exposure to bright light. It may be helpful to people who have a seasonal pattern to their depression. |
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| the surical destruction of specific brain areas. |
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| a disorder or symptom that occurs as a result of a medical or psychotherapeutic treatment. |
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