PSYCHOTHERAPY

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PSYCHOTHERAPY

• Psychoanalysis
• Causes of anxiety unconscious impulses,
  desires, fears
• Patients understanding of unconscious
  motives is 1st step to control behavior and
  solve problems

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PsychoanalysisTherapy Techniques

• Free Association
• Patient relaxes and tells everything on their
  minds
• Analyst
• Often says very little
• Occasionally makes remarks, asks guiding
  questions
• Suggests unconscious motives, explanations
• Most work is done by the patient
• Resistance
• Patients unwillingness to reveal certain painful
  thoughts and feelings
• Therapist and patient evaluate causation of
  resistance to reveal problems

• Dream Analysis
• Seek unconscious thoughts and feelings revealed
  in dreams
• Transference
• Patient transfers feelings to therapist
• By understanding transference, patient becomes
  aware of hidden feelings and motivations

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Humanistic Therapy

• Client-centered therapy that assumes a person is
  basically good and capable of handling their own
  problems
• Problems arise when a persons true self is lost
  and a person views the self according to the
  standards of others

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Humanistic Therapy Therapy

• Client speaks freely about troubling matters
• Client picks topics (nondirective therapy)
• Therapist listens and encourages (avoids
  opinions and judgments) echoes back clients
  feelings
• Goal is the idea of working towards
  self-acceptance
• (I believe this about myself others see me
  differently I accept and try to be what others
  want me to be this causes conflict)

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Cognitive Therapies

• Basic assumption
• faulty cognitions (irrational or uninformed
  beliefs, expectations and ways of thinking)
  distort our behavior, attitudes and emotions
• Goal
• correct false, self-defeating patterns of thinking

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Ellis behaviors are a result of A B C

• Activating Event -criticism
• Belief -must be loved to be happy
• Consequent emotion -unhappiness
• Therapys 3 steps
• Realization that some beliefs are unrealistic and
  false
• Acting on false beliefs
• Work to break old habits of thought and behavior
• Takes discipline

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Behavior Therapies

• Emphasis is on behavior not thoughts
• Concentration is on what is specific trouble
• Take steps to change it
• Goal to modify behavior
• persons undesirable behavior is learned thus it
  can be unlearned

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Behavior Therapies Therapists role

• help patient change behavior
• Patient lists specific/concrete (desired)
  behaviors and goals
• Program is designed to meet these goals
• Use counter-conditioning and systematic
  desensitization
• Aversion conditioning make certain acts
  unpleasant so they will be avoided
• Operant conditioning reward and punishment to
  change behavior

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Biological Therapy

• Drug Therapy most widely used biotherapy
• Electroconvulsive Therapy shock treatment
• Psychotherapy brain surgery
• Most commonly used is prefrontal lobotomy