psychoanalysis
“Psychoanalytic therapy works best for...
patients who suffer with anxiety disorders
cognitive therapies work best for...
anxiety, depression, addiction, anger management, and bulimia
behavior therapist focus on
specific problem behaviors
Electroconvulsive therapy works best for
patients with severe depression
who came up with the theory of psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud
Who noted that most people believe that their emotions and behaviors are direct results of specific events?
Albert Ellis
who developed client centered therapy?
carl rogers
who developed systematic desensitization
Joseph Wolpe
antidepressants stabilizes...
seratonin
What are the 5 major psychoanalytical techniques?
free association, analyzing dreams, analyzing resistance, analyzing transference, and offering interpretation
what causes psychological problems according to cognitive therapy?
faulty thoughts such as negative self talk and irrational beliefs
what type of environment does the therapist make in client centered therapy?
comfortable and nonjudgmental
behavior therapist assume that
adaptive and maladaptive behaviors are learned
what does biomedical therapy work best for?
depression and bipolar disorders?
helps patients gain insight into...
how childhood conditions created unconscious conditions
what are Elli’s 4 steps in rational emotive therapy?
Identifying activating events, identifying belief systems, examining emotional consequences, and Disputing erroneous beliefs
what does client centered therapy offer?
encouragement to freely find the answer to their problems
what are the three steps in systematic desensitization?
Wolpe begins by teaching his client how to maintain a state of deep relaxation. It is physiologically impossible to be both relaxed and anxious at the same time.
Wolpe and his client next create a hierarchy or ranked listing of anxiety-arousing images or situations.
Starts with the least threatening experience on the anxiety hierarchy.
antipsychotic drugs are also referred to as...
neuroleptics and major tranquilizers
why is finding insight in clients hard?
defense mechanisms set up by the ego
Ellis challenged this common sense interpretation by arguing that...
our feelings are actually produced by the irrational belief we use to interpret events
people with problems must...
strive to overcome obstacles that disrupt their normal growth potential and impair their self concepts.
describe Mary Cover Jones experiment
her first and most famous study, Jones treated a 3 year old named Peter who was especially afraid of a tame rabbit. Jones used a technique now known as counterconditioning to modify Peter’s behavior by associating his favorite snack of milk and crackers with a rabbit. As Jones slowly inched the rabbit closer to Peter in the presence of his favorite food, the little boy grew more comfortable and was soon able to touch the rabbit without fear.
anti anxiety drugs are designed to
produce relaxation and lower sympathetic activity in the brain.