Therapy Approaches
This approach focuses on unconscious conflicts and early childhood experiences. In order to get to this understanding, the therapist might use interpretations of these.
What is psychoanalytic?
Dreams?
This technique is helpful for Seasonal Affective Disorder.
What is Light Exposure Therapy?
This term refers to the use of drugs to treat psychological disorders.
What is psychopharmacology?
This professional is trained in both counseling and social services.
What is a clinical social worker?
This statistical method combines results from many studies to determine overall effectiveness.
What is a meta-analysis?
What is humanistic? What is low self-efficacy or self-concept?
This therapy stems from principles developed by Thorndyke, Skinner, and Watson.
What is behavior?
This is generally considered to be a possible downside of using psychiatric medications.
What is dependency?
This professional can prescribe medication because they are a medical doctor.
What is a psychiatrist?
This experimental method ensures neither the participant nor researcher knows who receives the treatment.
What is a double-blind procedure?
This approach focuses on changing maladaptive thoughts; there is an emphasis in understanding these, which have developed over time, and include examples such as all or nothing thinking, or discounting the positive.
What is cognitive? What are cognitive distortions?
This method pairs an unpleasant stimulus with an unwanted behavior to reduce it. This could be useful with those that struggle with alcoholism.
What is aversive?
This mood stabilizer is commonly used to treat bipolar disorder.
What is lithium carbonate?
This type of therapy focuses on improving relationships and one's ability to navigate and function within these relationships.
What is interpersonal functioning?
Carl Rogers believed therapists should provide this environment for clients (3 parts).
What is empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard?
This type of clinician might use brain stimulation or SSRI's, utilizing this tx modality? (2 answers)
In behavior modification programs, this reinforcement system operates by issuing generalized reinforcers that can be exchanged later for a variety of privileges or items, and is grounded in principles of operant conditioning.
What is a generalized token economy system based on secondary reinforcers? (just token economy is accepted)
This treatment involves sending controlled electrical currents through the brain.
What is ECT (electroconvulsive therapy)?
This professional diagnoses and treats mental disorders but usually does not prescribe medication. In order to have this title, they must have obtained this degree.
What is a psychologist? What is a doctoral degree? (PhD or PsyD)
Research suggests these three factors are shared by most successful therapists/therapies.
What are a therapeutic alliance, hope/expectancy, and common factors (empathy/support)?
These are the 5 general categories of mental health therapies.
What are psychoanalytic, humanistic, behavioral, cognitive, and biomedical?
This therapy uses bilateral stimulation to reduce trauma symptoms.
What is EMDR? (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
This severe side effect of antipsychotic drugs causes involuntary movements.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
A client with severe major depressive disorder is seeking help. The treating clinician addresses the tx team and says they need to discuss the biopsychosocial factors for this client. What might be addressed during this clinical meeting? (provide 6 examples, 2 from each).
Could be any of the following:
Genetics, previous medications, environmental factors, family, friends, school, job, spirituality, presenting symptoms (ex: self-harm, sleep patterns, food intake, etc.), previous experiences or traumas, core beliefs.
These are the Tx recommendations for each for the following disorders.
Bulimia Nervosa
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
Specific Phobia
What are:
Bulimia--CBT with relapse prevention and cognitive strategies (will also accept DBT).
Anxiety--CBT, Cognitive, Exposure (and anti-anxiety medication such as Xanax or Ativan)
Depression-- Behavior, Cognitive, and Interpersonal, also anti-depressants (SSRI's)
Phobias-- Behavior (systematic desensitization or exposure therapy)