Treatments for Mental Disorders
Major Schools of Psychotherapy
Evaluating Psychotherapy
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
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This type of drug is often prescribed to people with schizophrenia
Anti-psychotics
100
A cognitive technique that uses rationality to directly challenge the client’s unrealistic beliefs or expectations
What is rational emotive behavior therapy
100
Name something that all types of therapy can offer clients
Hope, a new perspective, a caring relationship
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
This is commonly prescribed to people with bipolar
Lithium
200
the different kinds of psychotherapy
What are psychodynamic, behavior & cognitive, humanist & existential, Family & couple therapies?
200
Why do most people give positive testimonials about their therapy? Give one reason
People enter therapy in crisis, they need to believe it was worth the effort, they speak kindly of their therapist
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
O.H. Mowrer trained children to discontinue bed-wetting by arranging for an alarm to sound each time they wet their beds. This technique best illustrates a therapeutic application of _____________________.
Classical conditioning
300
4 techniques of behavior and cognitive therapy
What is exposure, systematic desensitization, behavioral self-monitoring, skills training
300
What is "regression toward the mean"?
The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back toward their average
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
What is meta-analysis?
Combining the results of many different studies
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
Helps people alter the negative thinking that worsens depression and anxiety, for example, Aaron Beck's therapy
Cognitive therapy
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
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.
Therapeutic alliance
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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