Biomedical Therapy
The use of drugs to treat symptoms of psychological disorders
What is Pharmacotherapy (psychotropic medication)
What drug type is common used to treat depression
SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors)
Client-centered or person-centered therapy is founded on which school of thought in psychology?
Humanism
Therapy that is performed by presenting a person with the stimulus that causes anxiety is called:
Exposure Therapy
When a client avoids bring up a subject or otherwise resist the therapist's attempts at gaining information
What is resistance
Sending a strong electric current through the brain to cause a system reset
What is ECT (electroconvulsive therapy)
What kinds of medications are used to treat anxiety
When a therapist presents compassion and care for their client it is called:
Empathy
A form of therapy in which a person is exposed to a high quantity of anxiety inducing stimuli, taking the hardest task first
What is the goal of psychoanalysis?
Insight, revealing the unconscious
On what disorders is ECT most useful
Severe depression and psychotic disorders
Antipsychotics help with which symptoms of Schizophrenia
Positive symptoms
When a therapist's thoughts align with their speech and actions, it is called:
Genuineness
This form of therapy pairs the anxiety inducing stimulus with relaxing stimulus and gives the client time for their anxiety to decrease
What is Systematic Desensitization
When a client proposes questions and concepts to a client and asks for the first thing that comes to their mind
What is free association
When were lobotomies used? Do we still use them today?
What does lithium do to bipolar patients
Humanistic theory is great for establishing a therapeutic relationship, what is being established in the first few sessions of therapy?
Rapport
Using a token economy to reward desired behavior is an example of which kind of conditioning?
Operant conditioning
When a client acts towards the therapist as if they were a figure from their past
What is transference
Older antidepressants, such as MAO inhibitors and TCAs had several problems, what was the main one?
Affected all monoamines, such as dopamines, instead of targeting serotonin like an SSRI.
What neurotransmitter do antipsychotics work on?
Dopamine
How does a humanistic therapist act differently than another kind of therapist
Person-centered therapists believe that the client is fully capable of making positive change, but must be facilitated in the right direction
All-or-nothing thinking, overgeneralization, and catastophising are all examples of:
Beck's Cognitive Distortions
How does sleep relate to psychoanalytic theory?
Dream analysis as a way of accessing the unconscious