Treatments for mental health disorders

Question 1

Describe psychoanalysis

Answer 1

Developed by Freud, goal is to gain insight into unconscious conflicts, early technique was hypnosis, later free association and dream analysis

Question 2

Describe humanistic therapy

Answer 2

Client centred therapy, client determines their own goals, communication in client-therapist relationship, unconditional positive regard

Question 3

Describe cognitive therapy

Answer 3

Challenge negative and dysfunctional thoughts with positive and rational ones, unlearning abnormal behaviour

Question 4

Describe exposure therapies

Answer 4

Patient approaches stimulus of fear to reduce fear using systematic desensitisation