Therapy
This seeks to identify maladaptive cognitions (thoughts), appraisals, beliefs, and reactions, with the aim of influencing destructive negative emotions.
What is Cognitive Behavior Therapy?
The most widely used anti-depressant drugs block the reuptake of this neurotransmitter.
What is serotonin?
This type of therapy includes an examination of both operant conditioning and classical conditioning.
What is Behavioral Therapy?
This involves using an electrical current to induce seizures in the brain in order to help alleviate the effects of certain mental conditions, such as severe forms of depression or bipolar disorder.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
This dissociative disorder is very controversial...some psychologists don't think it is really a disorder at all but a mis-diagnosis of another disorder.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Light Therapy is used to treat this disorder.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
Treatment for schizophrenia often involves a drug from this class of therapeutic medication.
What are anti-psychotics?
This form is explicitly concerned with the human context of the development of the individual with an emphasis on subjective meaning, a rejection of determinism, and a concern for positive growth rather than pathology.
What is humanistic therapy?
This type of treatment is only used in a few centers on small numbers of people with depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
What is Psychosurgery?
This disorder is sometimes referred to as the "common cold" of psychological disorders.
What is Major Depressive Disorder (depression)?
One advantage of this type of therapy is that the patient realizes that he/she is not alone in their struggles.
What is group therapy?
This disorder is treated with a combination of Tricylic Anti-Depressants and Lithium Carbonate.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Phobias are often treated using therapy from this perspective.
What is behaviorism?
This is a type of behavioral therapy that involves repeated pairing of an unwanted behavior with discomfort.
What is aversion therapy?
False beliefs
What are delusions?
Role play and drawing are often used in therapy sessions for this type of client.
Who are children?
Prozac is a brand name for this drug.
What is fluxotine?
The primary focus is to reveal the unconscious content of a client’s psyche in an effort to alleviate psychic tension.
What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
Psychosurgery is also referred to as NMD which stands for this.
What is neurosurgery for mental disorder?
This was previously known as "shell shock".
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This is referred to as using a variety of different therapy methods in combination.
Contrary to what many people expect, ADHD is treated with drugs from this classification.
What are stimulants?
Free Association is sometimes used in therapy from this perspective.
What is Psychodynamic (Psychoanalysis)?
Exposure therapy, which is often used to treat phobias, is also known as this.
What is systematic desensitization?
This was previously called Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
What is Factitious disorder?