Personality Disorders
Psychotherapies
Psychotherapies (cont.)
Biomedical Therapies
Biomedical Therapies (cont.)
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This cluster of personality disorders expresses anxiety, such as fearful sensitivity to rejection.
What is Cluster 1
100
This type of therapy believed pateints' free associations, resistances (moments where they struggled to speak), dreams, and transferences (when the patient's anger toward the therapist was evidence of emotion from previous relationships) allowed the patient to gain self-insight.
What is psychoanalysis
100
This is a type of counter-conditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior. Ex: Stopping an alcoholic from drinking by putting a substance that nauseates them in their beverage.
What is aversive conditioning
100
These are alternative therapies bolstered by anecdotes, heralded by the media, and praised on the internet with little to no scientific evidence other than personal experience.
What is pseudo therapies
100
This is a possible side effect of long-term anti-psychotic medication that target dopamine receptors. It causes involuntary movements of the face, tongue, and limbs.
What is tardive dyskinesisa
200
This cluster expresses dramatic or impulsive behaviors.
What is Cluster 3
200
This type of therapy aimed to boost self-fulfillment by helping people grow in self-awareness and acceptance. In this type of therapy, therapists use techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, and empathetic environment to facilitate growth.
What is client-centered therapy
200
This is an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges/treats.
What is a token economy
200
These are certain drugs that calm psychotic patients and dampen responses to irrelevant stimuli. ***(Thorazine for + symptoms; Clozopine for - symptoms)
What are antipsychotic medications
200
These types of medication block reuptake of both serotonin and norepinephrine, but with an increase in negative side effects.
What is dual-action
300
This cluster expresses eccentric behaviors such as emotionless disengagement.
What is Cluster 2
300
These therapies applied learning principle to the elimination of unwanted behavior by assuming that the problem behaviors were the problems and that these behaviors could be replaced with more constructive ones.
What is behavior therapies
300
This type of therapy teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting.
What is cognitive therapy
300
These drugs increase the availability of neurotransmitters such as serotonin and norepinephrine that are scarce during depression. ***(Usually SSRIs like Prozac.)
What are antidepressants
300
These drugs depress the central nervous system and can help a person to cope with stressors (with risk of dependency). ****Ex: Xanax, Atvian They are slowly being replaced with antidepressants.
What are antianxiety agents.
400
This personality disorder is characterized by lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends/family. A person with this disorder was formerly titled as a sociopath or psychopath.
What is antisocial personality disorder
400
This is a procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors.
What is counter conditioning
400
This effect is the tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fallback toward their average.
What is regression toward the mean
400
An example of this type of biomedical therapy was when it was discovered that ***Lithium salt stabilized moods for those suffering from manic-depressive disorder.
What are mood stabalizers
400
An alternative to ECT, this therapy gives application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain, and can form functioning circuits through LTP.
What is (rTMS) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
500
This disorder is characterized by shallow, attention seeking behaviors and emotions, of which the person goes to great lengths to receive praise/assurance for.
What is histrionic personality disorder.
500
This type of therapy uses behavioral techniques such a systematic desensitization that treat anxiety by exposing patients (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear/avoid.
What is exposure therapy
500
This is a procedure for statistically combining the results of many research studies in order to give the bottom line results of a lot of studies. (In therapy this resulted in those who don't undergo therapy often improve, but those undergoing therapy are more likely to improve.)
What is meta-analysis
500
This type of therapy was first used in the 1930's, however the patient was conscious and had nothing to protect the body. Today the patient is given a muscle relaxer and put under. Used mostly in cases of severe depression.
What is (ECT) Electroconvulsive Therapy
500
This is the most drastic, irreversible, and least used biomedical intervention. It removes/destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.
What is psychosurgery
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