Chapter 16: Treatment (7B) Flashcards
What is behavioural therapy?
The goal of behavioural therapy is to discover specific problem causing behaviours an replace them with healthy behaviours
What is classical conditioning meant to do?
Change a clients dysfunctional reaction to a specific stimuli
What id systematic desensitization used for?
It is effective in treating phobias, PTSD, and asthma attacks
What is aversion therapy/
It increases the anxiety response to harmful stimuli desired by the client (excessive drinking and smoking)
What is operant conditioning?
Consistently provide rewards for desirable behaviour and withhold rewards for undesirable behaviour
- successful in hospitalized psycotic patients
- work best in institutions and schools
What is modeling?
Therapists exhibit appropriate behaviours so client can imitate, refers, and, in or pater behaviours into their lives.
What is social skills training?
Therapists discuss social deficits and role play social situations with the client to model more appropriate social behaviours
What are the strengths of the behavioural approach/
- Widely studied in research and strongly supported
- Effective for us ours problems indulging specific fears, Social deficits, and intellectual disabilities
What are some criticisms to the behavioural model?
- Improvements made are not always maintained
- Not effective when psychological disorders are broad or vague
What are the cognitive views on abnormal behaviour?
Disorders are caused by maladaptive thinking
What is Ellis’s rational emotive therapy?
The goal is to identify irrational assumptions that lead to disordered emotions, behaviours and thinking.
What are some of Ellis’s teqniques?
- point out irrational assumptions
- Model the use of alternative assumptions
- Uses cognitive restructuring
- Effective for anxiety and assertiveness problems
What is Beck’s cognitive therapy?
- Widely used for depression
- Therapists helps clients identity negative thoughts and errors in logic
- Guide them to apply alternate ways of thinking
- About 2/3s of depressed people imporve
- Also used for panic and anxiety disorder
What is the Second wave CB therapies?
- Recognize problematic thoughts as just thoughts
- Clients accept thought rather than judge in or try to eliminate them
- Helpful treatment for generalized anxiety disorder
- Includes mindfulness, acceptance, and midlful mediation
Strengths of the CB therapies?
- Well supported by research
- Good at treating depression, social anxiety, GAD< panic disorder, sexual dysfunctions,and other disorders