Unit 14: Treatment of Disorders Flashcards
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History of Insane Treatment
Treatments were barbaric because people treating disorders did not realize what the true cause of the disorder was. Dorothea Dix and Philippe Pinel tried to change that to more humane care and a policy of deinstitutionalization.
Psychotherapy
involves an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and a mental patient.
Biomedical
therapy uses drugs or other procedures that act on the patient’s nervous system, curing him or her of psychological disorders.
eclectic
An eclectic approach uses various forms of healing techniques depending upon the client’s unique problems.
Psychological Therapies
Psychoanalytic theory
Humanistic theory
Behavioral theory
Cognitive theory
Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud’s actual perspective used to treat Psychological Disorders.
Psychoanalysis: Aims
The goal was to make patients aware of the underlying issues that were causing their psychological problems. Freud believed these underlying problems were trapped in the patient’s unconscious mind.
Psychoanalysis: Methods
free association
Dissatisfied with hypnosis, Freud developed the method of free association to unravel the unconscious mind and its conflicts.
The patient lies on a couch and speaks about whatever comes to his or her mind. The therapist describes their interpretation of what the patient is saying
transference
Eventually, the patient opens up and realves his or her innermost private thoughts, developing positive or negative feelings (transference) towards the therapist.
Psychoanalysis: Criticisms
Psychoanalysis is hard to refute because it cannot be proven or disproven.
Psychoanalysis takes a long time and is very expensive.
Psychodynamic Therapies
A perspective that is influenced by Freud, but has been modified to fit more with today’s patients and issues. The goal is to tap into important themes across the patient’s life that can lead to a disorder.
insight therapies
Psychoanalytic and Humanistic therapies are known as insight therapies because they are teaching you something about yourself that you weren’t even aware of before therapy started.
Humanistic Therapies
Humanistic therapists aim to make patients feel great about themselves, and to have the patient strive to be the best person they can be.
Person Centered Therapy
Type of Humanistic Therapy where the therapist has the patient lead the conversation. The therapist deals with the patient in a very positive uplifting way.
What does Humanistic Therapy do?
The therapist engages in active listening and echoes, restates, and clarifies the patient’s thinking, acknowledging expressed feelings.
Counterconditioning
Counterconditioning is a procedure that conditions new response to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors.
Is it based on Classical Conditioning and includes exposure therapy and aversive conditioning. It does not deal with the root cause of the behavior, just the behavior itself.
Exposure Therapy
Expose patients to the thing or things that are giving them anxiety.
Systematic Desensitization
A type of exposure therapy that exposes people to their fears little by little. You start by creating a fear hierarchy of what scares them a little to what scares them a lot.
Flooding
A type of Exposure Therapy that exposes a patient to their greatest fear all at once.
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
Virtual-Reality Exposure Therapy exposes a patient to what they fear using VR-tech.
Aversive Conditioning
Pairing an unwanted behavior with an unpleasant consequence.
Operant Conditioning
Behavior Modification: Reward the patient for wanted behaviors and punish them for unwanted behaviors.
Token Economy
Give a token/star/chip every time a patient does something desirable. Have an opportunity for the patient to turn in these chips at the end of a period of time for prizes or desirable items.
Cognitive Therapy
Cognitive Therapy gets the patient to change their way of thinking, in order to make the patient feel better. This is known as Cognitive Restructuring.
