psych disorder treatment Flashcards
(34 cards)
Ben rush
Trying to work for a better mental ill treatment
Psychotherapy
Trained interaction between therapist and someone with a psychological disorder
Free association
Saying whatever you think
Transference
transferring anger to someone else
Regression towards the mean
any outliers over time it won’t stay outliers
EX. Super depressed after a therapy they get better (may not be from therapy )
Psychodynamic
influenced by Freud but talk more to patients and ask more questions
Clear-cut problem
Certain thing to work on
Humanistic therapy
client centered
-help clients reach full potential in the future
-accepting environment
Active listening
reflecting back with client is saying
behavior training
Learning to eliminate unwanted behaviors
-Scared of spiders so associate with happy things
Types of counter conditioning
Systematic desensitization and aversive conditioning
Systematic desensitization
overtime get more and more close to a cause
ex. scared of spiders start small with a toy or looking at one far away
Aversive conditioning
associating a different feeling with something pleasurable or unpleasurable
EX. Got over T addiction by making it taste bad
Token economy
giving small token to be turned in for some thing rewarding
EX. Señora Dolores equals a cheat sheet
Flooding
overwhelming you with treatment for some thing
EX. Putting me in a birdcage
Cognitive therapy
changing the way you think to change the way you act
-Most common therapy
Rational emotive therapy
Albert Ellis‘s first cognitive behavior therapy
Family therapy
work together to grow together over topics that influence the family as a whole
Therapeutic alliance
Bond between therapist and client
Resilience
ability to cope and get over problems
Psychopharmacology
Study of affects of drugs on mind and behavior
-Double blind procedure is to test
Types of psychopharmacology drugs
anti-depressants
Antipsychotics
Antianxiety
Bipolar
Antipsychotics
treat schizophrenia and other severe thought disorders-positive symptoms
Antianxiety drugs
depressed central nervous system activity