Insight Therapies
TRUE OR FALSE:
When psychoanalytic therapy was in its prime anyone could afford it.
False
anti-anxiety drugs
drugs used to control anxiety and agitation
token economy
an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
Antipsychotic act as?
act as dopamine antagonists
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
Freudian slip
a verbal mistake that is thought to reveal an unconscious belief, thought, or emotion
TRUE or FALSE:
its believed that the ego disguises disturbing thoughts in our dreams to save ourselves
cognitive therapy
therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
TRUE OR FALSE:
Anticonvulsant medications are also used to treat Schizophrenia
FALSE
they can be used to treat Bipolar Disorder
cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
An action-oriented type of therapy that requires clients to confront and resist their illogical thinking.
*relatively fast
Transference
which occurs when patients react to therapists as if they were parents or other important people from childhood
Universal symbols in dreams
general objects
Automatic thoughts (Beck)
rapid, unthinking responses based on schemas (unique assumptions about themselves, others, and the world in general)
antipsychotic drugs
drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder
ABC model
Activating event
irrational Beliefs
emotional Consequences
How is psychodynamic therapy different from psychoanalysis?
1. Psychodynamic meets with client less
2. Psychodynamic therapists sit face to face rather than off to the side
personal symbols in dreams
objects that hold specific meaning
cognitive distortions
Irrational, inaccurate thoughts that people have about environmental events.
tardive dyskinesia
involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors
deep brain stimulation (DBS)
a treatment procedure for depression in which a pacemaker powers electrodes that have been implanted in Brodmann Area 25, thus stimulating that brain area
Psychodynamic therapy
This newer form of insight therapy has been evolving over the last 40 to 50 years, incorporating many of Freud's core themes, including the idea that personality and behaviors often can be traced to unconscious conflicts and experiences from the past.
rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
A type of cognitive therapy, developed by Ellis, that identifies illogical thoughts and attempts to convert them into rational ones.
Overgerneralization
the distortion that assumes self-contained events will have major repercussions
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)
electromagnetic coils are put on (or above) a person's head, directing brief electrical current into a particular area of the brain