Chapter 16: Treatment (7A) Flashcards
What is treatment or therapy?
It is systematic procedures designed to change abnormal behaviour into more normal behaviour
What are the three essential features of all therapies?
- A sufferer who seeks help
- A trained, socially accepted healer, who’s expertise is accepted by the sufferer and his social group
- A series of contacts between the healer and the sufferer with the goal of changing attunes, emotional states, or behaviours.
What is psychotherapy?
A treatment in which a client and therapist use words and acts to over come psychological difficulties
What is biological therapy?
The use of physical and chemical procedures to help people overcome psychological difficulties
Who seeks therapy?
- Women used to outnumber men in therapy by four to one
- Men are more willing to enter therapy than before
- Members of ethnic minority groups tends to seek treatment for their psychological problems less often than members of the majority culture
Stigma
- There has been a significant reduction in the stigma associated with metal illness
- Perceptions of stigma play a role in people’s decisions about what’re to acknowledge their mental issues and to seek treatment
Where is treatment conducted?
- Public instructions, schools, private offices
Most people are treated as outpatients - Inpatients have serious psychological problems
- The Canadien Metal Health Act outlines patient rights and conditions for involuntary admittance to hospitals
What are psychotropic drug?
they are drugs that act (primarily) on the brain
What are some psychotropic drugs?
- Anti anxiety drugs
- Antidepressenants
- Mood-stabilizers
- Antipsychotics
What is ketamine?
An anaesthetic drug that that is now being touted by some as the drug of choice for high risk patients suffering from treatment-resistant mood disorders such as bipolar or major depressive disorder
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
It is the use of electric shock to trigger a brain seizure in hopes of relieving abnormal functioning
1. Reduces depression in 70% of patients
2. Causes short-term memory problems
What is vagus nerve stimulation?
An implanted pulse generator sends electrical signals to the left vagus nerve. That nerve then delivers electrical signals to the brain helping reduce depression in many people.
What is Transcranial magnetic stimulation?
It is a procedure used to treat depression. The electromagnetic coil is places on the patient’s head and sends current to the prefrontal cortex
What is Trephining?
Some historians believe that trephination was done to relapse evil spirits that were thoughts to be responsible for mental dysfunction
What is a lobotomy?
A surgical practice of cutting the connection between the frontal love and the lower centres of the brain