Psychological Therapies

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Psychological Therapies
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Therapy

• It used to be that if someone exhibited abnormal
  behavior, they were ______________________.
• Because of new drugs and better therapy, the U.S.
  went to a policy of _______________.

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Somatic Therapies(psychiatrist or clinical
psychologist?)

• Psychopharmacology
• Antipsychotics (thorazine, haldol)
• __________ (valium, barbiturates, Xanax)
• _________ (serotonin reuptake inhibitors)
• ________ (lithium)

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Psychopharmacology

• The study of the effects of _____ on mind and
  behavior.

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Antianxiety Drugs

• Includes drugs like Valium,Xanax Librium.

• Like alcohol, they _______ nervous system
  activity.

• Most widely abused drugs.

Do they really solve the problem?
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Lithium
chemical that provides an effective drug therapy
for the mood swings of _______________disorders
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Antidepressant Drugs

• Lift you up out of _________.

Most increase the neurotransmitter
____________________.
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Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft

• Work by blocking serotonin reuptake.

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Drugs and Hospitalization
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Somatic Therapy

• ________________ (ECT)- for depression.
• Psychosurgury
• lobotomy

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Psychotherapy

• An interaction between a ______________ and
  someone suffering from psychological difficulties.

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Psychoanalytic Therapywhat name???what time of
life???

• Psychoanalysis (manifest and latent content
  through. ________________).
• Unconscious
• Transference

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Transference

• In psychoanalysis, the patients _______ to the
  analyst of emotions linked with other ________.

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Humanistic Therapypast or present???
Schizophrenics?

• ________________ by Carl Rogers
• These are ____________ and use active listening.
• Self-actualization, free-will and unconditional
  positive regard.
• __________ by Fritz Perls encourage clients to
  get in touch with whole self.

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Client (Person) Centered Therapy
Most widely used Humanistic technique is

• Developed by Carl Rogers

• Therapist should use genuineness, acceptance and
  empathy to show _______________________ towards
  their clients.

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Active Listening

• Central to Rogers __________ therapy

• ________ where the listener echoes, restates and
  clarifies.

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Behavioral Therapieshere and now/anyone other
than schiz

• Counterconditioning
• 1. _______________
• 2. Aversive Conditioning
• 3. ______________
• 4.Flooding
• 5.Operant Conditioning
• 6. _______________

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Behavior Therapies

• Therapy that applies learning principles to the
  elimination of _________________.

• The behaviors are the problems- so we must
  ______________.

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Classical Conditioning Techniques

• Counterconditioning
• A behavioral therapy that conditions new
  responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted
  behaviors.

Two Types
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Systematic Desensitization

• A type of ______________ that associates a
  pleasant relaxed state with ___________
  anxiety-triggering stimuli.

How would I use systematic desensitization to
reduce my fear of old dentists?
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ANXIETY HIERARCHY USED IN SYSTEMATC
DESENSITIZATION
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Behavior Therapy

• Systematic Desensitization

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Flooding

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Aversive Conditioning

• What are some ways you can ____________ of your
  friends with aversive conditioning who bite their
  fingernails?

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Aversive Conditioning

• A type of ____________ that associates an
  unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior.

How would putting poop on the fingernails of a
nail biter Affect their behavior?
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Operant Conditioning

• ___________ an operant conditioning procedure
  that rewards a desired behavior.

A patient exchanges a token of some sort, earned
for exhibiting the _________, for various
privileges or treats.
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Cognitive Therapy

• Change the way we view the world (change our
  schemas)
• Aaron Beck
• Albert Ellis and Rational Emotive Therapy

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Cognitive Therapy
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Cognitive Therapies

• A therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive
  ways of __________________ based on the
  assumptions that thoughts intervene between
  events and our emotional reactions.

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Cognitive Therapy

• Cognitive Therapists try to teach people new,
  more ________ ways of thinking.

Is .300 a good or bad batting average?
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Cognitive Therapy
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Aaron Beck and his view of Depression

• Noticed that depressed people were similar in the
  way they viewed the world.
• Used cognitive therapy get people to take off the
  dark sunglasses in which they view their
  surroundings

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Cognitive Therapy- Does It Work?
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Group Therapy
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Eclectic Approach

• The most popular form of therapy- it is basically
  a smorgasbord where the therapist combines
  techniques from different schools of psychology.