Biological Treatments for Mental Disorders
Major Schools of Psychotherapy
Evaluating Psychotherapy
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
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The common treatment for bipolar disorder
What is lithium carbonate
100
A cognitive technique that uses rationality to directly challenge the client’s unrealistic beliefs or expectations
What is rational emotive behavior therapy
100
This is the bond of confidence and mutual understanding established between therapist and client, which allows them to work together to solve the clients problems.
What is The Therapeutic Alliance
100
In behavior therapy, a method in which a person suffering from a phobia or panic attacks is gradually taken into the feared situation or exposed to a traumatic memory until the anxiety subsides.
What is graduated exposure
100
In behavior therapy, a form of exposure treatment in which the client is taken directly into a feared situation until his or her panic subsides.
What is flooding
200
The common treatment for schizophrenia
What are antipsychotic drugs
200
the different kinds of psychotherapy
What are psychodynamic, behavior & cognitive, humanist & existential, Family & couple therapies?
200
This is the phenomenon that, on the one hand, scientific results are ignored in the field and, on the other hand, problems that occur in the field are not investigated by scientists.
What is The Scientist-Practitioner Gap
200
An approach to doing therapy with individuals or families by identifying how each family member forms part of a larger interacting system.
What is family-systems perspective
200
The apparent success of a medication or treatment due to the patient’s expectations or hopes rather than to the drug or treatment itself.
What is the placebo effect
300
Describe methods of direct brain intervention
What is a prefrontal lobotomy, what is electroconvulsive therapy ( ECT)/shock therapy, what is transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
300
4 techniques of behavior and cognitive therapy
What is exposure, systematic desensitization, behavioral self-monitoring, skills training
300
Through Cognitive therapy's many cases of Depression have been treated, along with Relapse prevention where Cognitive-behavioral approached have also been highly effective in reducing the rate of relapse
What is The Benefits of Therapy
300
A form of therapy designed to help clients explore the meaning of existence and face the great questions of life, such as death, freedom, alienation, and loneliness.
What is existential therapy
300
A procedure used in cases of prolonged and severe major depression, in which a brief brain seizure is induced.
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
400
Name 3 drugs commonly prescribed for mental disorders
What is antipsychotic drugs, antidepressant drugs, anti-anxiety drugs (tranquilizers), lithium carbonate
400
HUMANIST- providing a nonjudgmental setting in which to discuss issues; use of empathy and unconditional positive regard by therapist EXISTENTIAL- varies with therapist; philosophic discussions about meaning of life, client’s goals, finding courage
What is the method for humanist and existential therapy
400
A theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy, developed by Sigmund Freud, that emphasizes the exploration of unconscious motives and conflicts; modern psychodynamic therapies share this emphasis but differ from Freudian analysis in many ways.
What is psychoanalysis
400
A drug frequently given to people suffering from bipolar disorder.
What is lithium carbonate
500
List 3 cautions about drug treatments
What is the placebo effect, high relapse and dropout rates, disregard for effective, possible better nonmedical treatments, dosage problems, unknown risks over time and drug interactions, untested off-label uses
500
Intensive analysis of dreams and memories would give patients insight to the unconscious reasons for their symptoms
What is Freud’s reasoning for psychoanalysis
500
Research designed to determine the effectiveness of a new medication or form of therapy, in which people with a given problem or disorder are randomly assigned to one or more treatment groups or to a control group.
What is randomized control trials
500
The bond of confidence and mutual understanding established between therapist and client, which allows them to work together to solve the client’s problems.
What is therapeutic alliance
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