Ch. 16 - Treatment of Psychological Disorders Flashcards
(40 cards)
What is the goal of the treatment?
Help change maladaptive thoughts, feelings, behaviours
What are the different types of resources for treatment processes?
- Psychologists & psychiatrists
- Psychatric social workers
- Marriage & family counsellors
- Pastoral counsellors
- Abuse counsellor
What are the three treatment types?
- Insight Therapies (talk)
- Behaviour Therapies (changing overt behaviour)
- Biomedical Therapies (biological functioning interventions)
What is the goal and insight in psychoanalysis?
Goal: help patients achieve insight
Insight = conscious awareness of psychodynamics underlying problems learned in childhood
What is the free association in a psychoanalysis?
- Uncensored conversation
- Verbal reports of thoughts, feelings, or images that enter awareness without cencorship
What is dream interpretation in a psychoanalysis?
Therapist helps client understand the symbolic meaning of their dreams
What is resistance in psychoanalysis?
- Defensive maneuvers that hinder process of therapy
- Sign that anxiety-arousing material is being approached
What is transference in a psychoanalysis?
- Client responds irrationally to therapist like he/she was important figure from client’s past
- Brings out repressed feelings and maladaptive behaviours
What are the two types of transference in psychoanalysis?
Positive: feelings of affection, dependency, love
Negative: irrational expressions of anger, hatred, disappointment
What is interpretation in psychoanalysis?
- Statements by the therapist which provides the client with insight into behaviour
- Time consuming as client must arrive at ‘insight’
What is the Brief Psychodynamic Therapies?
An evidence-based treatment that focuses on inducing behavioral alterations in patients through gaining insight into the patterns of their past adverse experiences
What are the focuses of humanistic psychotherapies?
- Conscious control of behaviour
- Personal responsibility
- Disordered behaviour (function of distorted perceptions, lack of awareness, negative self-image)
Accepting clients without judgement or evaluation is defined as:
Unconditional positive regard
Viewing the rules through the clients eyes is defined as:
Empathy
Consistency between therapist’s feelings & behaviours is defined as:
Genuinesness
What is the goal in gestalt therapy?
Bring feelings, wishes, and thoughts into awareness (make the client “whole” again
What are the different methods in gestalt therapy?
- Often carried out in groups
- More active and dramatic appraoches than client-centered appraoches
- Role-play
What is the focus in cognitive therapies?
- Role of irrational and self-defeating thought patterns
- Help clients discover & change cognitions that underlie problems
What are the characteristics of rational emotive therapy?
- Activating event
- Belief system
- Concequences
- Disputing or challenging maladaptive emotions, behaviours
What is Beck’s Cognitive Therapy?
Irrational beliefs
- Ideas underlie maladptive response
- Point out errors of thinking
- Help clients identify & reprogram “automated” thought patterns
What about maladaptive behaviours are important in behavioural therapies?
That maladaptive behaviours are the problem - not a symptom
TorF: Problem behaviours are learned not hereditary
True
What is systematic desensitization?
Used to treat extreme aversions through a combination of graded exposure and relaxation
What are the steps to systemic desensitization?
- Train muscle relaxation skills (anxiety & relaxation cannot co-exist)
- Stimulus heirarchy (low-anxiety to high-anxiety scenes)
- Relaxation & progressive association with stimulus hierarchy
