Intro to therapy
Treatment involving psychological techniques. it consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
psychotherapy
this form of therapy applies learning principles to eliminate unwanted behaviors.
Instead of treatment with an individual this form of therapy seeks to provide benefits from group interactions
Group Therapy
These drugs depress the central nervous system.
Antianxiety drugs
clinicians like to combine this type of therapy with antidepressants. Attacking depression top-down and bottom-up.
cognitive behavior therapy
This is an approach that combines several different techniques from different forms of therapy.
Eclectic approach
uses different desensitization techniques to treat anxieties. Things people fear or avoid. What type of treatment is this?
exposure therapies
A form of group therapy. it treats people in the context of their family system.
Family Therapy
Some critics fear that antianxiety drugs may reduce symptoms without doing what?
Resolving underlying problems
This mood stabilizer is referred to as a "simple salt"
Lithium
Freud's therapeutic technique. Interprets free associations, transferences, resistances, and dreams. allowed patient to gain self-insight.
Psychoanalysis
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking.
Cognitive therapy
The study of the effects of drugs on the mind and behavior.
Psychopharmacology
These drugs are commonly used to treat anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Antidepressant drugs
This form of medical therapy is returning as an option to treat those with severe depression in "treatment resistant" patients.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
resistance
This form of therapy works to change patterns of thinking and the way we act.
Cognitive behavior therapy
These drugs are effective in changing positive but less effective in changing negative symptoms in psychotic patients.
antipsychotic drugs
Antidepressants increase the availability of neurotransmitters such as __________ __________
norepinephrine and serotonin
This form of psychosurgery lesions parts of the brain.
Lobotomy
therapy that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences. The goal is to gain self-insight.
Psychodynamic therapy
A variation of cognitive behavior therapy, this for of therapy seeks to make peace between two opposing forces. acceptance and change.
Dialectical behavior therapy DBT
The side effects of antipsychotic drugs are similar to what disease? And what can long-term use cause in patients. (tremors, grimacing, involuntary movement of tongue)
Parkinson's Disease; Tardive dyskinesia
This drug has begun to be used as a quicker alternative for those at risk of suicide.
Ketamine
This is an alternative to ECT. it administers a 1-2 milliamp current to the scalp.
Transcranial electrical stimulation