Myers

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Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Ed)

• Chapter 14
• Therapy
• Modified from
• James A. McCubbin, PhD
• Clemson University
• Worth Publishers

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Psychotherapy

• Emotionally charged, confiding interaction
  between trained therapist someone who suffers
  from psychological difficulties
• Eclectic Approach
• Approach to psychotherapy that, depending on
  clients problems, uses techniques from various
  forms of therapy

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TherapyPsychoanalysis

• Freud believed patients free associations,
  resistances, dreams transferences (
  therapists interpretations) released previously
  repressed feelings, allowing patient to gain
  self-insight
• Use rapidly decreased in recent years
• Resistance
• Blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden
  material

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TherapyPsychoanalysis

• Interpretation
• Analyst notes supposed dream meanings,
  resistances other significant behaviors to
  promote insight
• Transference
• Patient transfers to analyst emotions linked with
  other relationships
• e.g. love or hatred for parent

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Humanistic Therapy

• Client-Centered Therapy (Rogers)
• Therapist uses techniques such as active
  listening within genuine, accepting, empathic
  environment to facilitate clients growth
• Active Listening
• Empathic listening in which listener echoes,
  restates, clarifies

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Behavior Therapy

• Applies learning principles to elimination of
  unwanted behaviors
• Counterconditioning
• Based on classical conditioning
• Conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger
  unwanted behaviors
• Includes systematic desensitization aversive
  conditioning

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Behavior Therapy

• Systematic Desensitization (type of Exposure
  therapy)

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Behavior Therapy

• Aversive Conditioning

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Behavior Therapy

• Token Economy
• Operant conditioning procedure that rewards
  desired behavior
• Patient exchanges token, earned for exhibiting
  desired behavior, for various privileges or treats

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Cognitive Therapy

• Teaches people new, more adaptive ways of
  thinking acting
• Based on assumption that thoughts intervene
  between events emotional reactions
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
• Combines cognitive therapy (changing
  irrational/self-defeating thinking) with behavior
  therapy (changing behavior)

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Group Family Therapies

• Group Therapy
• Family Therapy
• Treats family as system (no one is an island)
• Views individuals unwanted behaviors as
  influenced by or directed at other family members
• Attempts to guide family members toward positive
  relationships improved communication

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Biomedical Therapies Drug Therapies

• Psychopharmacology
• Study of effects of drugs on mind behavior
• Lithium
• Chemical that provides effective drug therapy for
  mood swings of bipolar (manic-depressive)
  disorders

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Biomedical Therapies Drug Therapies

• The emptying of U.S. mental hospitals

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Biomedical Therapies Drug Therapies
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Biomedical Therapies ECT Psychosurgery

• Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
• Therapy for severely depressed patients in which
  brief electric current is sent through
  anesthetized patients brain
• Psychosurgery
• Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in
  effort to change behavior
• Lobotomy
• Now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to
  calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients
  

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Mind-Body Interaction