Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Question 1

Therapeutic Alliance

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willing to try and listen to the advice that is being suggested

Question 2

Evidence-based interventions

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researching the effectiveness of different techniques (patients values, clinical expertise, and the best available research evidence)

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Meta-analytic studies

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you dont specifically go out and gather information, you research the topic and read about it to come to a conclusion

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Deinstitutionalization

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1950s was the creation of medicine; people who received medicine were taken out of an institution

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Ethical Principles

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You’re not allowed to share information about someone with another person, you cannot harm clients, cant mislead, need to stay loyal

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Fidelity

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degree of faithfulness or loyalty between individuals

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American Psychological Association

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Psychologists need to follow ethical principles to keep the patient safe

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Psychodynamic Therapies

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focusing on insight into unconcious and consious feelings and thoughts that may be rooted in past relationships

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Free Association

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patients speak freely about memories, dreams, and feelings (used in psychodynamic therapy)

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Dream Interpretation

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may be themes behind the plot of a patients dreams

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Cognitive Therapies

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Humanistic Therapy

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emphasizing the people potential for growth, self-actualization, and personal fulfillment

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Active Listening

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ask questions, clarification, paying attention

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Unconditional positive regard

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helps clients learn to accept themselves despite any weaknesses

Question 15

Cognitive Therapy

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helps people alter the negative thinking that worsens depression and anxiety

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maladaptive thinking

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unhealthy thinking, thinking poorely, negative thoughts

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Cognitive Triad

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pepole have negative thoughts about the self, world, and future

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Group Therapy

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Assembles groups of people with a therapist to work on therapeutic goals together

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Hypnosis

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one person suggests another person that they will experience changes in perception or behavior

Question 20

fear hierarchies

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Behavioral treatment for phobia

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Applied Behavioral Analysis

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Use/apply conditioning/learning techniques to change behavior

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exposure therapy

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expose yourself to a stimulus that causes you fear/anxiety to prevent you from avoiding it

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systematic desensitization

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A set of procedures (systematically) to learn to get desensitized (get used to a stimulus)

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Aversion therapy

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Introduce something unwanted to modify behavior (add nasty nail polish to change the behavior of nail biting)

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Token economies

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positive stimulus to try to encourage positive behaviors (sticker chart for behaving)

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Biofeedback

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Use conditioning techniques where you SEE your arousal levels to help you try to change and calm yourself down

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Cognitive-behavioral therapies

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changing both cognition and behavior that are a part of a health disorder

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

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meant to help people who let their emotions control their behavior, and learn different methods to prevent this

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Rational-emotive behavior therapy

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Direct and straightforward, challenging, and irrational thoughts (therapist challenges thinking: 'I don't agree...')

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Antidepressants

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medication used to improve mood control depressed and anxious thoughts

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Anti-anxiety

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medication used to temperarily improve worried thinking and physical agitations

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Antipsychotic

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Medication used to help reduce positve schizophrenic symptoms

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Tardive Dyskinesia

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side affect of antipsychotic which leads to odd facial/tongue and body movements

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lithium

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used in mood stabilitizer medications

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation

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non-invasive brain stimulation used on depression that stimulates nerve cells in the brain

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Electroconvulsive therapy

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mild seizures that disrupt sever depression, neural rewiring

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lobotomy

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destroys frontal lobe connection to the brain to decrease depression

Question 38

Psychsurgery

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surgically altering brain functions to treat inatractable mental disorders