Therapy

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Therapy
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Early treatment of mental disorders (Movie)

• What did these early treatments assume about the
  causes of psychological disorders?
• Under what conditions should we implement new
  treatments for psychological disorders?

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Treating OCD Exposure and response prevention

• Cognitive therapy (how people think)
• Behavior therapy (How people act)
• Exposure therapy
• Response prevention
• How do the basic principles of conditioning
  explain the effectiveness of this therapy?

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Outpatient commitment Forcing people into mental
health treatment. (movie)

• Does Kendras Law violate the right of a person
  to determine the course of treatment?
• Does the law have a racial or socioeconomic
  basis?
• Do you support Kendras law?
• Why or why not?

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Dealing with panic (movie)

• Could EMDR have a strong placebo effect?
• Should we use treatments if we do not know how
  they work?
• What is the best way of determining if an
  alternative therapy is effective?

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I am Freud

• What do I call my therapy?
• What is the cause of your problems?
• What do I try to accomplish in psychoanalysis?
• How can I use free association?
• What are the problems with my methods?

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I am Carl Rogers

• What do I call my therapy?
• What is the cause of your problems?
• What methods do I use in therapy?
• Unconditional positive regard
• Active listening Reflect feelings
• What do I try to accomplish?

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I am B.F. Skinner or John Watson

• What do I call my therapy?
• What do I feel caused your problem?
• How do I try to solve your problem?
• Classical conditioning
• Systematic conditioning
• Token behavior

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I am a cognitive therapist

• What do I focus on?
• How will I try to change your behavior?

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I am a family therapist

• What will I focus on?

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How do I know therapies are effective?

• What factors would cause patients to get better
  even if the therapies were ineffective?
• Regression toward the mean
• Placebo effect

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How can we test a new therapy to determine its
effectiveness?