Treatments

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Treatments
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Therapy Defined

• Therapy techniques to help people deal with
  psychological problems
• Focus on changing behavior
• Connected to theoretical perspectives and beliefs
  about root of behavior

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Providing Psychological Assistance

• Psychotherapy use of psychological
  principles/techniques to treat mental health
  disorders assumes root is psychological
• Biological therapy use of medications or other
  medical interventions to treat problems assumes
  root is biological

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Who Is Qualified to Give Therapy?

• Clinical psychologists, licensed counselors, etc.
• Masters degree is minimum
• Psychiatrists or other MDs are only professionals
  legally allowed to prescribe medication

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Modern Psychoanalysis

• Psychodynamic or short-term dynamic therapy
• Addresses current problems rather than childhood
  issues
• Short-term (no more than a few months) and
  effective
• Not as effective for depression, schizophrenia,
  autism

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Humanistic Therapy Empathizing to Empower

• Focuses on conscious actions taken to control
  behavior
• Believe behavior driven by view of world and
  awareness of feelings
• Clients are striving towards personal growth

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Behavior Therapies Learning Healthier Behaviors

• Behavior therapy focuses on changing current
  behaviors also called behavior modification
• Behavioral perspective behavior is result of
  environmental stimuli and consequences
• Two categories of treatment classical
  conditioning and operant conditioning techniques

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Social Cognitive TherapyElliss Rational-Emotive
Therapy (RET)

• Rational emotive therapy psychological problems
  stem from how people think about and interpret
  life events
• Faulty or irrational beliefs are identified
• Generally effective in treatment of depression
  and certain anxiety disorders

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Becks Cognitive Therapy (CBT)

• Distorted thinking (cognitive distortions) -
  negative automatic, thought patterns lead to
  depression, anxiety, low self-esteem
• Less confrontational than RET therapist and
  client work together to identify thought
  patterns, test validity of those, work on
  changing
• Effective with depression, anxiety disorders,
  preventing relapses

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Biomedical Treatment

• Medications used to treat mental health problems
• Not a cure, but can reduce symptoms
• Stabilizes symptoms so psychological issues can
  be addressed

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Psychopharmacological treatments

• Antipsychotics schizophrenia
• Antidepressants SSRIs depression and panic
  disorders
• Lithium bipolar
• Antianxiety anxiety and panic disorders

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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

• Series of treatments anesthesia and muscle
  relaxant given volts passed through brain
  inducing seizure quick, painless
• Treatment of last resort for depressed patients

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Lobotomy

• Operations that damage brain tissues in the
  frontal lobe to treat mental illness
• 50,000 performed in the U.S. (1935-1955)
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