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Drugs used in the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
What are antipsychotic drugs?
Direct brain intervention
What is psychosurgery?
Method of keeping data on the frequency and consequences of the behavior to be changed
What is behavior self-monitoring?
Form of cognitive therapy that challenges the patient’s thoughts
What is rational emotive behavior therapy?
Research used to determine the effectiveness of a medication or therapy
What are randomized controlled trials?
Drugs used in the treatment of anxiety
What are anti-anxiety drugs?
Procedure which used electrical currents triggering a seizure
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
Exposure treatment in which a person is directly taken to the feared situation until the fear subsides
What is flooding?
Psychotherapy based on the philosophy of humanism, emphasizing growth, resilience, achievement of human potential, and ability to change rather than repeating past conflicts
What is humanist therapy?
Theory of personality and method of psychotherapy emphasizing the exploration of unconscious and conflicts
What is psychoanalysis?
Drugs used in the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders
What are antidepressant drugs?
Procedure in which holes are drilled in a patient’s skull and an instrument is used to crush nerve fibers.
What is a prefrontal lobotomy?
Exposure therapy similar to graduated exposure except the patient is relaxed during the exposure
What is systematic desensitization?
Humanist approach emphasizing the therapist’s empathy with the client and uses unconditional positive regard
Client-centered therapy
What is transference?
Drugs used for treating bipolar disorder
What are mood stabilizers?
Therapy that applies principles of classical and operant conditioning to help people change self- defeating or problematic behaviors
What is behavior therapy?
Therapy designed to identify and change irrational and unproductive ways of thinking, reducing negative emotions
What is cognitive therapy?
Therapy exploring the meaning of existence and face great questions of life
What is existential therapy?
A patient's statement on the effectiveness of a therapy
What is a testimonial?
The apparent success of a medication or treatment due to the patient's expectations or hopes rather than the drug or treatment itself.
Method in which a person with phobias is gradually taken to the feared situation until the phobia subsides
What is graduated exposure?
Effort to teach skills that may be lacking along with new constructive behaviors to replace self-defeating ones
What is skills training?
Therapy by identifying how each family member forms part of a larger interacting system
What is family-systems perspective?
depression, suicide attempts, anxiety disorders, anger and impulsive violence, health problems, childhood and adolescent behavior problems, and relapses
What are the areas that therapy is most effective?