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Psychological theories (Psychopharmacology (Antianxiety drugs: used to…
Psychological theories
History
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Mid 1500s: people were treated badly and often damaging to their mental health illnesses; called mental institutions asylums
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Modern treatments
Psychotherapy: based on psychological techniques, individuals talk about their problems and the therapist assists them in understanding and changing behavior
Insight therapies: psychotherapies in which the main goal is helping people to gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts, and feelings
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Humanistic therapies: person centered therapy, motivational interviewing, gestalt therapy
Emphasizes the importance of the choices made by individuals and the potential to change one's behavior
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Person centered therapy: a nondirective insight therapy in which the client does all the talking and the therapist listens
Nondirective: therapeutic style in which therapist remains relatively neutral and does not interpret or take direct actions with regard to the client
action therapies: psychotherapy in which main goal is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior directly
Behavior therapies:action therapies based on the principles of classical and operant conditioning and aimed at changing disordered behavior without concern for the original causes of such behavior
Applied behavior analysis: use of learning techniques to modify or change undesirable behavior and increase desirable behavior
Uses: can be effective in treating specific problems, and help improve some more troubling behavioral symptoms associated with more severe disorders
Classical conditioning
Exposure therapy: introduce client to controlled situations that are related to their anxieties or fears
Aversion therapy: an undesirable behavior is paired with an aversive stimulus to reduce the frequency of the behavior
Systematic desensitization: client is asked to make list of ordered fears and taught to relax while concentrating on those fears
Operant conditioning
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Reinforcement: strengthening of a response by following it with a pleasurable consequence or removal of an unpleasant stimulus
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Contingency contract: a formal, written agreement between the therapist and client
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Cognitive therapies: beck's cognitive therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, rational emotive behavior therapy
Beck's cognitive therapy
Over generalization: drawing sweeping conclusions based on only one incident or event and applying those conclusions to events that are unrelated to the original
Magnification and minimization: blowing a negative event out of proportion while ignoring relevant positive events
Selective thinking: focusing on only one aspect of a situation while ignoring all other relevant aspects
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): action therapy in which the goal is to help clients overcome problems by learning to think more rationally and logically
Rational emotive behavior therapy: cognitive behavioral therapy in which clients are directly challenged in their irrational beliefs and helped to restructure their thinking into more rational belief statements
Biomedical therapy:therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem is treated with biological or medical methods to relieve symptoms; uses medical interventions to bring symptoms under control
Eclectic approach: approach to therapy that results from combining elements of several different approaches or techniques
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Psychopharmacology
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Antipsychotic drugs: used to treat psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and other bizarre behavior
Psychosurgery: surgery performed on brain tissue to relieve or control severe psychological disorders
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Bilateral anterior cingulotomy: uses magnetic resonance imaging to guide electrodes to cingulate gyrus
Prefrontal lobotomy: the connections of prefrontal lobes of the brain to the rear portions are severed