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Psychological Therapies (history (1793 (Philippe Pinel (psychiatrist)…
Psychological Therapies
history
1793
Philippe Pinel (psychiatrist) becomes famous for demanding that the mentally ill be treated with kindness
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1887
Nellie Bly (journalist) intentionally gets committed to Blackwell’s Island to investigate conditions
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therapy today
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Eclectic approach = approach to therapy that results from combining elements of several different approaches or techniques
Types of Therapies
Psychotherapy = therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem talks with a psychological professional
Insight therapies = psychotherapies in which the main goal is helping people to gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts, and feelings
Action therapy = psychotherapy in which main goal is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior directly
Biomedical therapy = therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem is treated with biological or medical methods to relieve symptoms
Gestalt Therapy= form of directive insight therapy in which the therapist helps clients accept all parts of their feelings and subjective experiences
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Cognitive Therapies= focus is on helping clients recognize distortions in their thinking and replace distorted, unrealistic beliefs with more realistic, helpful thoughts
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Person-Centered Therapy= a nondirective insight therapy in which the client (or person) does all the talking and the therapist listens
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Nondirective: therapeutic style in which therapist remains relatively neutral and does not interpret or take direct actions with regard to the client
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy(IPT)= focus on interpersonal relationships and the interplay between mood and everyday events
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Humanistic Therapies= focus on conscious, subjective experiences of emotion and people’s sense of self
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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 (behavior modification): use of learning techniques to modify or change undesirable behavior and increase desirable behavior
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Biomedical Therapies= therapies that directly affect the biological functioning of the body and brain
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