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Psych 111 Exam 3 Deck 3 Flashcards

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The Three Types of Psychotherapy Procedures

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Insight Therapies, Behavior Therapies, and Biomedical Therapies

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Insight Therapies

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“talk therapy” in the Freudian Psychoanalysis. The goal is pursue increased insight regarding the nature of the client’s difficulties and to sort through possible solutions.

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Family and marital therapy generally fall into which of the three major psychotherapy categories?

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Insight Therapy

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Behavior Therapies

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Based on the principle of learning (conditioning, etc.) They make direct efforts to alter problematic responses and maladaptive habits. They try to change overt behavior and use various procedures depending on the problem

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Biomedical Therapies

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Involves intervening in a person’s biological functioning. The most widely used procedures are electroconvulsive and drug therapies, mostly used by physicians, however in two states psychologists have gained drug prescription privileges

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Among adults, which are the two most common mental health problems which seek treatment?

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Depression and Anxiety disorders

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Does a client in treatment need an identifiable psychological disorder?

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No

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What percent of people seeking mental health treatment tend to be relatively free of psychiatric problems?

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8%

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Research suggests that what percent of people who need mental health treatment get it?

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1/3 or about 33%

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What are the three roadblocks to people getting the therapy they need

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  1. Lack of Health Insurance
  2. Cost
  3. (the biggest problem) social stigma
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What does “therapy” refer to?

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PROFESSIONAL treatment by someone with special training

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Clinical Psychologist (Degree, Education years, and role)

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PhD or PsyD, 5-7 years, psychological testing, diagnosis, treatment with insight or behavior therapy

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Counseling Psychologist (Degree, Education years, and role)

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PhD, PsyD, or EdD, 5-7 years, similar to clinical psychologist, but more focus on career, work, and adjustment problems

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Psychiatrist (Degree, Education years, and role)

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MD, 8 years, diagnosis and treatment, primarily with biomedical therapies, but also insight therapies

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Clinical Social Worker (Degree, Education years, and role)

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MSW or DSW, 2-5 years, Insight and behavior therapy, often helping inpatients return to their communities

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Psychiatric Nurse (Degree, Education years, and role)

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RN, MA, or PhD, 0-5 years, inpatient care, insight and behavior therapy

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Counselor (Degree, Education years, and role)

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BA or MA, 0-5 years, Vocational counseling, drug counseling, rehab counseling

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Marriage or Family Therapist (Degree, Education years, and role)

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MA or PhD, 2-5 years, Marital/Couples and Family Therapy

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The specialization of clinical and counseling psychologists

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the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and everyday problems

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The educational process for clinical and counseling psychologists

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4 years for Bachelor’s, 5-7 years for Ph.D., 1 year internship, and 1-2 year postdoc fellowship

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Are psychologists or psychiatrists more likely to use behavioral therapy over psychoanalytic methods?

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psychologists

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Psychiatrists

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Physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders. They tend to focus on more severe disorders than psychologists

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Insight Therapy Definition

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involve verbal interactions intended to enhance clients’ self-knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior.

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Psychoanalysis as a form of Insight Therapy

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is an insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses through techniques such as free association and transference.

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The techniques relied on by psychotherapists to explore the unconscious in insight therapy
1. free association | 2. Dream Analysis
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Free Association
clients spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactly as they occur, with as little censorship as possible.
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Dream Analysis
the therapist interprets the symbolic meaning of the client's dreams.
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Interpretation
The therapist's attempts to explain the inner significance of the client's thoughts and feelings, memories and behaviors
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Resistance
refers to largely unconscious defensive maneuvers intended to hinder the progress of therapy.
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Transference
occurs when clients unconsciously start relating to their therapist in ways that mimic critical relationships in their lives.
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7 Central Features of Psychodynamic Therapies
1. a focus on emotional experience, 2. exploration of efforts to avoid distressing thoughts and feelings, 3. identification of recurring patterns in patients' life experiences, 4. discussion of past experience, especially events in early childhood, 5. analysis of interpersonal relationships, 6. a focus on the therapeutic relationship itself, and 7. exploration of dreams and other aspects of fantasy life
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Client-Centered Therapy
is an insight therapy that emphasizes providing a supportive emotional climate for clients, who play a major role in determining the pace and direction of their therapy.
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Rogers' view on why personal distress occurs
It is the incongruence between a person's self-concept and reality
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According to Rogers, is the climate of therapy or the process of therapy more important?
climate
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In order to be supportive, client-centered therapists must provide which three conditions?
1. Genuineness 2. Unconditional Positive Regard 3, Empathy
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Positive Psychology
uses theory and research to better understand the positive, adaptive, creative, and fulfilling aspects of human existence.
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Giovanni Fava
Developed well-being therapy to enhance client self-acceptance, life purpose, autonomy, and personal growth
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Positive Psychotherapy and Researcher
Seligman and colleagues. It attempts to get clients to recognize strengths, appreciate blessings, savor positive experiences, forgive those who have wronged them, and find meaning in their lives. It has been effective in treating depression.
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Group Therapy
It developed in the aftermath of World War II and the high demand for therapeutic techniques. It is the simultaneous psychological treatments of several clients in a group
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The Therapists responsibilities in group treatment
1. Selecting participants 2. setting group goals 3. initiating and maintaining the therapeutic process 4. protecting from harm
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Couples or Marital Therapy
involves the treatment of both partners in a committed, intimate relationship, in which the main focus is on relationship issues.
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Family Therapy
involves the treatment of a family unit as a whole, in which the main focus is on family dynamics and communication.
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Spontaneous Remission
is a recovery from a disorder that occurs without formal treatment.
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Are insight or drug therapies more effective?
about equal
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What percent of patients show recovery from insight therapy within 20 sessions?
50%
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Behavior Therapies
involve the application of learning principles to direct efforts to change clients' maladaptive behaviors.
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The Assumptions of Behavior Therapies
1. Behavior is a product of learning | 2. What has been learned can be unlearned
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Systematic Desensitization
behavior therapy used to reduce phobic clients' anxiety responses through counterconditioning
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The Three Steps of Systematic Desensitization
1. Building an anxiety hierarchy 2. Training the client in deep muscle relaxation 3. Working through the hierarchy, remaining relaxed while imagining each stimulus
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Anxiety Hierarchy
A list of anxiety-arousing stimuli related to the specific source of the anxiety. The client ranks
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Exposure Therapies
Clients are confronted with situations that they fear so that they learn that these situations are really harmless
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Lars-Göran Öst
Developed an extensive 3-hour intervention that depended on gradually increased exposure to specific phobic objects and situations
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Which type of behavior therapy is considered as "last resort"?
Aversion Therapy
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Aversion Therapy
is a behavior therapy in which an aversive stimulus is paired with a stimulus that elicits an undesirable response.
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Social Skills Training
is a behavior therapy designed to improve interpersonal skills that emphasizes modeling, behavioral rehearsal, and shaping
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On which types of conditioning do Social Skills Training rely?
Observant and Operant
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Cognitive Behavioral Treatments
use varied combinations of verbal interventions and behavior modification techniques to help clients change maladaptive patterns of thinking.
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Cognitive Therapy
uses specific strategies to correct habitual thinking errors that underlie various types of disorders.
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Depression-prone people tend to think which 4 things?
1. they blame their setbacks on personal inadequacies rather than situational factors without considering circumstantial explanations 2. Focus selectively on negative events while ignoring positive events 3. Make unduly pessimistic projections about the future 4. Draw negative conclusions about their worth as a person based on insignificant events
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Delay and Deniker
Gave their schizophrenic patients chlorpromazine and found that it was successful as the first antipsychotic drug
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Biomedical Therapies
Psychological Interventions intended to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders
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Psychophamarco Therapy
is the treatment of mental disorders with medication
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The Four Main Categories of Therapeutic Drugs
1. Antianxiety 2. Antipsychotic 3. Antidepressant 4. Mood-stabilizing
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Anti-anxiety drugs
which relieve tension, apprehension, and nervousness
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The most popular antianxiety drugs
Valium (diazepam) and Xanax (alprazolam)
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Give an example of two drugs in the Benzodiazepine Family and another name for the group
Valium, Xanax; Tranquilizers
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How long does it take for benzodiazepine drugs to take effect? How long do they last?
Immediately; hours
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Common side effects of Valium and Xanax
Drowsiness, lightheadedness, dry mouth, nausea, constipation, depression, confusion
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Antipsychotic Drugs
Used to gradually reduce psychotic symptoms, including hyperactivity, mental confusion, hallucinations, and delusions. They tend to decrease activity at certain subtypes of dopamine synapses
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Antipsychotic drugs are typically used to cure what mental disorder?
Schizophrenia
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Three most popular antipsychotic drugs
Thorazine (chlorpromazine), Mellaril (Thioridazine), and Haldol (Haloperidol)
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Studies suggest that antipsychotics reduce symptoms in about _____% of patients
70%
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How long do antipsychotics need to take effect? How long does it take for improvements to show?
When taken regularly, 1-3 weeks; a few months
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Common side-effects of Antipsychotic Drugs
Drowsiness, Constipation, Cottonmouth, muscle tremors, muscular rigidity, and impaired motor coordination
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When patients stop taking antipsychotic drugs, ___% relapse within a year
70%
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Tardive Dyskinesia
A neurological disorder marked by involuntary writhing and ticlike movements of the mouth, tongue, face, hands, or feet. It is a potential side-effect of anti-psychotic drugs, typically seen in 20-30% of patients.
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Antidepressant Drugs
gradually elevate mood and help bring people out of a depression.
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Antidepressant Drugs
Gradually elevate mood and help bring people out of depression
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The most frequently prescribed class of drugs in the US
Antidepressants
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SSRIs
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors which slow the reuptake process at serotonin synapses, thus increasing serotonin activation.
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Examples of SSRIs
Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft
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SSRIs have proven effective in which disorders?
1. OCD 2. Panic 3. Other anxiety disorders
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Antidepressants exert influence over several weeks, but 60% of patients' improvement trends occur in the first ___ weeks
two
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"There has been concern that SSRIs may increase risk for suicide". What is a confounding variable that may affect the validity of such a statement?
Suicide rates are already elevated for those who exhibit the disorders for which SSRIs are prescribed. In fact, risk of suicide may have decreased
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When compared to the placebo treatment, do SSRIs seem to have more or less of a risk of suicide
more; the risk jumps from 2% to 4%, especially during the first nine days to one month
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SNRIs
Serotonin and Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors inhibit uptake at both serotonin and norepinephrine synapses. They produce more antidepressant effects that SSRIs, but they also have a wider range of side effects
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Mood Stabilizers
are drugs used to control mood swings in patients with bipolar mood disorders.
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For many years, what was the most effective mood stabilizer?
Lithium
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Problems associated with Lithium Therapy for mood disorders?
kidney and thyroid gland complications. Possibly fatal
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Valproate
A new mood stabilizer which has become more widely used than lithium in treating mood disorders
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Criticisms of Drug Therapies
1. Not as effective as advertised 2. Overprescribed and overmedicated 3. The side-effects are underestimated, especially when multiple drugs are given at the same time
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ECT
Electroconvulsive Therapy is a biomedical treatment in which electric shock is used to produce a cortical seizure accompanied by convulsions
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How often are shocks given in ECT?
three treatments a week over 2-7 weeks
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What is ECT primarily used to treat?
Depression
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What percentage of ECT patients relapsed within 6 months? What is the median relapse time?
64%; 8.6 weeks
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What are some problems with ECT (side-effects)
memory loss, impaired attention, and other cognitive deficits
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TMS
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is a technique that permits scientists to temporarily enhance or depress activity in a specific area of the brain.
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When applied to the __ and __ parts of the brain, TMS has promised to reduce depressive symptoms
right and left prefontal cortex
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DBS
Deep-Brain Stimulation is when a thin electrode is surgically implanted in the brain and connected to an implanted pulse generator so that various electrical currents can be delivered to brain tissue adjacent to the electrode
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DBS has proven effective in motor disturbances of which diseases?
1. Parkinson's 2. Tardive Dyskinesia 3. Some seizure disorders
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Eclectism
in the practice of therapy involves drawing ideas from two or more systems of therapy instead of committing to just one system.
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Theoretical Integration
two or more systems of therapy are combined or blended to take advantage of the strengths of each.

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