- treatments based on psychological principles
- Biomedical Therapies - focus on altering the brain with drugs, psycho surgery or electroconvulsive therapies
Therapy
- used to be if someone exhibited abnormal behavior, they were institutionalized
- because of new drugs and better therapy, US went to a policy of deinstitutionalization
Psychoanalysis - Freud
- free association, hypnosis and dream interpretation to gain insight into the new clients's unconscious
- hypnosis and dream interpretation
Humanistic Approach - Maslow and Rogers
- potential for self-fulfillment (self-actualization)
- present and future; never the past
- conscious thoughts
- take responsibility for your actions instead of blaming childhood anxiety
- 2 Types
- Group Therapy
- Self-Help Support Groups
- client-centered therapy is the most used
- developed by Carl Rogers
- should use genuineness, acceptance and empathy to show unconditional positive regard
Behavior Therapy
- therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
- the behaviors are the problems so we must change the behaviors
- Systematic Desensitization - a type of counter conditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli
- Exposure Therapy - form of desensitization where the client directly faces the stimuli
- Aversive Conditioning- a type of counter conditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
- Token Economy - conditioning procedure that rewards a desired behavior. A patient exchanges token of some sort, earned for exhibiting desirable behavior
- teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting, based on assumption that thought intervene between events and our emotional reactions
Biomedical Therapies
- Psychopharmacology - study the effect of drugs on the mind and behavior
- Antipsychotic Drugs - a class of meds used to treat psychosis (delusions, hallucinations, agitations) it is also beginning to help schizophrenia
- Antianxiety Drugs -drugs like valium, lubrium and alcohol.
- Antidepressant Drugs - lift you out of depression.most of them increase neurotransmitter norepinepherine (prozac, paxil, zoloft - block serotonin reuptake)
- Electroconvulsive Therapy - biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which brief electric currents are sent throught the brain of anesthetized patients
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