Unit 7 - Psychological Treatment

Question 1

Two main approaches to psychotherapy

Answer 1

Insight-orientated

Symptom-elimination

Question 2

Different treatments for psych disorders and main goals

Answer 2

• Biomedical (Symptom-Eliminaion)
• Exposure and Response Prevention (Symptom-Elimination)
• Psychodynamic and psychoanalysis (insight-orientated)
• Cognitive (Symptom-Elimination)

Question 3

Goal of psychotherapy

Answer 3

To reconstruct persons thoughts, emotions, and behaviors through specialized/clinical dialogue and listening

Question 4

Profesional qualifications: Psychiatrists

Answer 4

MD (Medical Degree)
Only one to prescribe medication
Moderate to severe distress

Question 5

Profesional qualifications: Clinical Psychologists

Answer 5

Masters Degree and PhD.D in Clinical Psychology
Moderate to severe distress

Question 6

Profesional qualifications: Counseling Psychologist

Answer 6

Masters Degree and PhD in Counseling Psychology
Mild to moderate

Question 7

Profesional qualifications: Counselors

Answer 7

Masters Degree in Counseling
Mild to moderate

Question 8

Magic pill fallacy

Answer 8

Belief that a pill or short treatment will be a quick fix to complex psychological problems

Question 9

One size fits all fallacy

Answer 9

One type of treatment will not work for everyone.

Question 10

Founder of psychoanalysis

Answer 10

Sigmund Freud

Question 11

Founder of child psychotherapy

Answer 11

Anna Freud

Question 12

Founder of cognitive therapy

Answer 12

Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis

Question 13

Founder of Humanistic Therapy

Answer 13

Carl Rogers

Question 14

Founder of Behaviour Therapy

Answer 14

Skinner and Pavlov

Question 15

Insight-orientated vs Symptom-elimination

Answer 15

Insight - Focus on roots, symptoms eliminated as results. Goal is produce inside on underlying causes of psychological issues

Symptom - Symptom elimination only, bot worried about understanding origin. If underlying cause is not addressed, symptoms may arise in another form

Question 16

What do, how do, side effects: Antipsychotics

Answer 16

Reduces symptoms of schizophrenia (especially positive)

Blocks dopamine receptors

Obesity, diabetes, movement problems

Question 17

What do, how do, side effects: Antianxiety

Answer 17

Temporarily reduces worried thinking, may erase traumatic associations

Slow nervous system activity

Slowed thinking, addiction

Question 18

What do, how do, side effects: Anti depressant

Answer 18

Improves mood and con free ever negative thoughts

Increase dopamine by inhibiting reuptake

Dry mouth, constipation, reduced sexual desire

Question 19

Two parts of unlinking

Answer 19

Thought (Idea)

Affect (emotion)

Question 20

The process of exposing someone to anxiety triggering stimulus gradually and repeatedly

Answer 20

Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy

Question 21

Exposure and response therapy goals

Answer 21

Overcome irrational fear

Unlinks fear, but doesn’t relink the original connection

Question 22

Three types of Systemstic Desensitization

Answer 22

Imaginative (imagine scary)

In-vivo (IRL scary)

Virtual reality exposures (VR scary)

Question 23

Psycodynamic or Psychoanalitoc Psychtherapies

Answer 23

Insight-orientated

Bring unconscious to conscious

Find root problems, original connections

Question 24

How you you get unconscious to conscious

Answer 24

Look for “leaks” of the unconscious.

Freudian slips
Forgetting what you were gonna say
Pauses

Question 25

Free-floating attention

Answer 25

One of Freud's techniques to access unconscious. Not just looking at what a story is but *how* it is told. What is someone glossing over? What is their body language saying?

Question 26

Rule of free association

Answer 26

Talking about everything and anything that comes to mind without censorship or filtering

Question 27

Free association

Answer 27

Alternative to hypnosis Talking completely freely

Question 28

Functions of dreams

Answer 28

Express repressed desires Process threatening experiences Mood regulation (neuroscience view) Relies heavily on patients associations

Question 29

Transference

Answer 29

Redirection of feelings from past pr current relationships onto therapist. Patient may view therapist as parental figure or romantic partner and unconsciously project those feelings onto them.

Question 30

Mal-adaptive beliefs

Answer 30

Musterbation. (Perfectionism) I MUST do/complete _____ to be happy or be worthy. (Good grades) Awfulizing (Catastrophizing)

Question 31

Cognitive therapy

Answer 31

Find maladaptive beliefs, and help the person spot them and give them tools to change them. Focuses only on conscious

Question 32

Cognitive Therapy: Ellis' ABC theory

Answer 32

A - Activating event (insult, real or perceived) B - Belief (Musterbation or Awfulizing) C - Consequent Emotion (Unhappy)

Question 33

Cognitive therapy basic steps (2)

Answer 33

1. Identify false belief (musterbation or awfulizing) 2. Invalidate the belief. (Go though logic. What supports? What doesn't support?)