Therapies for Psychological Disorder

What is therapy?

• A type of cognitive restructuring involving comparisons between oneself and others in similar situations.

• A cure to all interpersonal and intrapersonal dealings

• A general term for any treatment process;

  in psychology and psychiatry.

• An operant conditioning approach to changing behavior by altering the consequences

What are reasons you should go to therapy? (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)

• To cope with stress and burnout

• self-exploration and growth

• life transitions

• Overcoming Trauma

What are the two MAIN forms of therapy psychologists focus on?

• Insight and Behavioral Therapy

• Contingency Management and Participant Modeling

• Group Therapy and Aversion Therapy

• Psychoanalysis and Active Listening

Insight Therapy

• Focus on environment and on behaviors rather than the motives behind them.

• Attempts to change people on the inside; think and feel.

Behavior Therapies

• Focus on environment and on behaviors rather than the motives behind them.

• Attempts to change people on the inside; think and feel

What is an example of insight therapy

• Classical Conditioning Therapy

• Freudian psychoanalysis

• Participant Modeling

• Operant Consitioning Therapy

What are examples of Stimulants?

• Cocaine

• Caffeine

• Methamphetamine

• Prozac

Leti had electro conclusive shock therapy a number of years ago. She is now suffering a side effect of that therapy. What is she most likely to be suffering from?

• a. tardive dyskinesia

• b. depression

• c. the loss of her ability to plan ahead

• d. memory loss

Anti-psychotics...

• treat symptoms of psychosis so hallucinations, agitation, social withdrawal etc. But there can be negative impacts that cause people to withdraw.

• affect the way neuropathways work through the usage of serotonin.

• used to increase activity like nicotine and coffee, but can also be used suppress activity in those with hyperactivity disorders.

• help to diminish feelings of anxiety.

Community Mental Health Movement

• Effort to deinstitutionalize mental patients and provide therapy through outpatient clinics.

• The policy of removing patients, whenever possible, from mental hospitals.