Unit 13: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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1. Geraldo, a high school senior, is so fearful of asking a girl out that he hasn't had a date in over three years. He has recently contacted a psychotherapist for help in overcoming his fear. Describe how a humanistic therapist and a psychoanalyst would treat Geraldo's problem. (Objectives 1 & 2)
2. Describe how a therapist might apply operant conditioning techniques to help Rosemary overcome a compulsive habit of eating too much junk food. Be clear about the exact procedures that would be used. (Objective 3)
3. One of your best friends feels that he fails at everything he does and that his life isn't worth living. When you suggest that he talk to a psychotherapist, your friend responds, “Talking won't help. The more I talk about myself, the more I think about my problems. The more I think about my problems, the more depressed I get.” What procedures would a cognitive therapist use to help your friend overcome his negative feelings? (Objective 4)
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Geraldo, a high school senior, is so fearful of asking a girl out that he hasn't had a date in over three years. He has recently contacted a psychotherapist for help in overcoming his fear. Describe how a humanistic therapist and a psychoanalyst would treat Geraldo's problem. (Objectives 1 & 2)
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Describe how a therapist might apply operant conditioning techniques to help Rosemary overcome a compulsive habit of eating too much junk food. Be clear about the exact procedures that would be used. (Objective 3)
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Unit 13:Treatment of Psychological
Disorders
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Treatment
PsychoanalysisPsychoanalysis HumanisticHumanistic
BehavioralBehavioral CognitiveCognitive
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TreatmentPsychotherapy
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• History of treatment– Philippe Pinel
– Dorothea Dix
• Psychotherapy– treatment involving psychological
techniques– consists of interactions between a
trained therapist & someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
• Eclectic approach
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The Psychological Therapies
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TreatmentPsychotherapy
Psychoanalysis
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Psychoanalysis• Sigmund Freud• Freud believed the patient’s free associations,
resistances, dreams, & transferences – and the therapist’s interpretations of them – released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.– Childhood impulses &conflicts
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PsychoanalysisMethods
–Free association
–Resistance• Blocking anxiety-laden
material
• Interpretation
– Dream analysis
–Transference• in psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of
emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).
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PsychoanalysisPsychodynamic Therapy
• Psychodynamic therapy– therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that
views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight.
–Similarities with psychoanalysis
–Differences with psychoanalysis
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Psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
insight client-centered
active listening UPR
past unconscious hidden determinantscuring illness
patients
resistance
transference
interpret
present & future
conscious
clients
promoting growth
personal responsibility
“How does that make you feel?”
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Humanistic Therapies• Insight therapies
– increasing the client’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses
• focus more on:–the present rather than the past
–conscious rather than the unconscious
–taking immediate responsibility
–promoting growth instead of curing
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Humanistic Therapies• Client-centered therapy (person-centered)
–Nondirective therapy
–Genuineness, acceptance, and empathy
–Active listening• Paraphrase
• Invite clarification
• Reflect feelings
–Unconditional positive regard
empathetic
listening
self-awarenessself-acceptance
What is an example of that?….
That sounds frustrating…
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Psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
insight client-centered
active listening UPR
Behavioraloperant conditioning
classical conditioning
aversionexposure
desensitizationvirtual reality
counter-conditioning
token economy
behavior mod
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Behavior Therapies• uses learning principles to get rid of
unwanted behaviors
–Classical conditioning techniques
–Operant conditioning techniques
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Behavior TherapiesClassical Conditioning Therapies
• Counterconditioning– evoke new responses to stimuli that are
triggering unwanted behaviors– repeated exposure = less anxious
–Exposure therapies• Systematic desensitization
– progressive relaxation
– anxiety hierarchy
• Virtual reality exposure therapy
–Aversive conditioning
can’t be simultaneously anxious & relaxed
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Behavior TherapiesAversion TherapySys. Des. =
substitute a fearful/negative response with a relaxed/positive response to a HARMLESS
stimulus
Aversion = substitute a
positive response with a
negative /aversive
response to a HARMFUL
stimulus (alcohol)
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Behavior TherapiesAversion Therapy
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Behavior TherapiesAversion Therapy
DOES IT
WORK?DOES IT
WORK?
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Behavior TherapiesOperant Conditioning
• Behavior modification
• Token economy
• Criticisms?
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Psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
insight client-centered
active listening UPR
Behavioraloperant conditioning
classical conditioning
Cognitive
Cognitive-Behavioral
(CBT)
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=GVNgmJ4tIpo
Buckbeak 1st 3 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doxxfXqpKYA
Boggart’s Wardrobe 4min
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Cognitive Therapies• Cognitive therapy
–Beck’s therapy for depression• Catastrophizing beliefs
–CBT• stress inoculation training• re-label obsessive thoughts• assertive
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Assertiveness Test
1. B A C2. A C B3. C B A4. B A C5. C B A6. A C B7. B A C8. C A B9. B C A
Nonassertive AssertiveAggressive
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Cognitive Therapies
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Cognitive Therapies
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Cognitive Therapies
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Cognitive Therapies
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Cognitive Therapies
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Cognitive Therapies
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Psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
Group Therapy
Cognitive-Behavioral
(CBT)
Behavioral
BioMedical
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Objective 5:Group & Family Therapy
What are the aims & benefits of group and family therapy?
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Evaluating Psychotherapies
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(#6)Is Psychotherapy Effective?• Regression toward the mean• Client’s perceptions
– crisis– time & $– speak well of therapist– Mass. Study
• Clinician’s perceptions– Feedback usually positive
• Outcome research –– time heals– Meta-analysis– Those not in therapy often improve; those in therapy more likely to
improve– Placebo treatments
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(#7)The Relative Effectiveness of Different Therapies
• Behavioral – Bed wetting, phobias, compulsions
• Cognitive– Depression
• Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia / change entire personality will see less benefit from psychotherapy alone
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The Relative Effectiveness of Different Therapies
• Evidence-based practice
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(#8)Evaluating Alternative Therapies• Eye movement desensitization & reprocessing
(EMDR)– anxious thoughts vanished as eyes darted about
– Unlock & reprocess previously frozen memories
– What is actually therapeutic is the combination of exposure therapy - repeatedly associating w/ trauma memories a safe context & a robust placebo effect.
• Light exposure therapy– Seasonal affective Disorder (SAD)– Morning bright light does dim symptoms as effectively
(for some) as antidepressant drugs or CBT
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(#9)Commonalities Among Psychotherapies
• Hope for demoralized people
• A new perspective on oneself & the world
• An empathic, trusting, caring relationship
placebo effect
plausible explanation
communicate their concern, show respect,
reassure
therapeutic alliance
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Culture & Values in Psychotherapy (#10)
• Similarities between cultures• Differences between cultures
–minorities reluctance to seek therapy–religion
• Albert Ellis & Allen Bergin
rational-emotive therapy
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The Biomedical Therapies
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Introduction
• Biomedical therapy–Drugs
–Electroconvulsive therapy
–Magnetic impulses
–Psychosurgery
–Psychiatrist
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Drug Therapies (#11)
• Psychopharmacology
• Factors to consider with drug therapy–Normal recovery rate of untreated
patients
–Placebo effect• Double blind procedure
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Drug Therapies
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Drug Therapies
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Drug Therapies
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Drug Therapies
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Drug TherapiesAntipsychotic Drugs
• Antipsychotic drugs–Psychoses–Chlorpromazine (Thorazine)–Dopamine block–Tardive dyskinesia–Atypical antipsychotics (clozapine)
• negative symptoms (& positive)
–xxx–xxx
dampens responsiveness
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Drug TherapiesAntianxiety Drugs
• Antianxiety drugs–Xanax, Ativan,
D-cycloserine• acts upon a receptor that helps the
extinction of learned fears
–Physiological dependence?
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• Antidepressant drugs– Use with mood and anxiety disorders– 4 weeks– increase the availability of norepinephrine &
serotnin• Neurogenesis – birth of new brain cells
– Fluoxetine (Prozac), Paxil• Selective-serotonin-reuptake inhibitors
– Side effects of antidepressants
• aerobic exercise
• CT
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Drug TherapiesAntidepressant Drugs
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Drug TherapiesAntidepressant Drugs
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Drug TherapiesAntidepressant Drugs
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Drug TherapiesMood-Stabilizing Medications
• Mood-stabilizing medications–Lithium
• bipolar
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Brain Stimulation (#12)Electroconvulsive Therapy
• Electroconvulsive therapy (1938)–Procedure
• general anesthetic• muscle relaxant• 30-60 seconds• no memory of treatment• 3 sessions/wk 2-4 weeks
–Severe depression
–Problems/side effects• 4 in 10 relapse
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Brain StimulationElectroconvulsive Therapy
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Brain StimulationAlternative Neurostimulation Therapies
• Magnetic Stimulation–Repetitive transcranial magnetic
stimulations (rTMS)• left frontal lobe
• Deep-Brain Stimulation– excites neurons that inhibit negative emotion-
feeding activity (frontal lobe & limbic system)
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Brain StimulationAlternative Neurostimulation Therapies
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Psychosurgery (#13)–surgery that removes or destroys brain
tissue in an effort to change behavior
–Lobotomy• History – 1930s
• Procedure – cut nerves connecting frontal lobe w/ emotion controlling centers
–coma; eye socket; wiggle to severe connection
• Side effects
• Use today
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Therapeutic Life-Style Change (#14)
• Integrated biopsychosocial system
• Therapeutic life-style change– Aerobic exercise
– Adequate sleep
– Light exposure
– Social connection
– Anti-rumination
– Nutritional supplements
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Preventing Psychological Disorders
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Preventing Psychological Disorders (#15)
• Resilience
• Preventing psychological disorders
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While focusing on several intrusive thoughts that had been bothering her recently, Jenny was
instructed by her therapist to report any ideas or memories stimulated by these thoughts. Jenny’s therapist was making use of a technique known
as:
A. active listening.
B. free association.
C. systematic desensitization.
D. transference.
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Humanistic therapies differ from psychoanalytic therapies in all of
the following ways, EXCEPT:A. psychoanalytic therapists are more likely to
encourage the client to take immediate responsibility for feelings.
B. humanistic therapists are more oriented to the present and future, rather than the past.
C. psychoanalytic therapists are more likely to emphasize unconscious processes.
D. humanistic therapists are more growth-oriented.
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McKenzie’s therapist believes that active listening is an extremely important
component of therapy. He is probably a:
A. psychoanalyst.
B. cognitive therapist.
C. behavior therapist.
D. client-centered therapist.
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Client-centered therapists emphasize the importance of:
A. exploring clients’ childhood relationships with other family members.
B. interpreting the meaning of clients’ nonverbal behaviors.
C. enabling clients to feel unconditionally accepted.
D. helping clients identify a hierarchy of anxiety-arousing experiences.
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A therapist helps Rebecca overcome her fear of water by getting her to swim in the
family’s backyard pool three times a day for two consecutive weeks. The therapist’s
approach to helping Rebecca best illustrates:
A. stress inoculation training.
B. aversive conditioning.
C. exposure therapy.
D. humanistic therapy.
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A cognitive therapist would be most likely to say:
A. “That sounds quite frustrating. It isn’t easy to be in a situation like that.”
B. “Can you think of a more positive interpretation of what happened?”
C. “Just say whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or irrelevant it might seem.”
D. “Next time you start to feel anxious, you can use the relaxation techniques we’ve been working on.”
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For which of the following disorders is psychotherapy most likely to be
effective in the long run? A. generalized anxiety disorder
B. major depressive disorder
C. chronic schizophrenia
D. phobias
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Researchers have sought to answer the question, “Does psychotherapy work?”
Generally speaking, the answer seems to be:
A. yes, people in therapy improve more than people in control groups.
B. yes, but people in therapy improve at the same rate as people who are receiving placebo treatments.
C. no, therapy does not provide any benefits; people who just let time pass improve at the same rate as people in therapy.
D. no one really knows, because so far the only method used to answer this question has been interviewing former therapy clients.
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The effectiveness of psychotherapy shows little if any connection to:
A. the level of training and experience of the therapist.
B. the length of time a client has experienced symptoms of disorder prior to therapy.
C. the particular disorder experienced by a client.
D. the extent to which the process depends on changing clients’ personalities.
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The placebo effect best illustrates the importance of _______ in therapeutic
success.
A. active listening
B. psychopharmacology
C. behavior modification
D. cognitive processes
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If a therapist tells a client, “Rank order the things that frighten you
from least to most,” the therapist is most likely practicing:
A. Freudian therapy.
B. systematic desensitization.
C. Gestalt therapy.
D. token economy.
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Jon’s therapist laces his alcoholic drink with a drug that makes Jon sick. After
getting sick a few times, just the sight of the drink makes Jon nauseous. In this
example, the conditioned stimulus is the:A. drug.
B. alcohol.
C. nauseous response to the drug.
D. nauseous response to the sight of the drink.
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Your therapist asks you to try to remember your dreams. He also
encourages you to review incidents in early childhood. Your therapist is most
likely practicing:A. Freudian therapy.
B. cognitive therapy.
C. behavior therapy.
D. humanistic therapy.
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In your therapy session you often review your current behaviors as compared to
what you think you should be doing. Your therapist is kind and listens to your ideas,
even if you think they are silly. Your therapist is most likely practicing:
A. Freudian therapy.
B. Jungian therapy.
C. cognitive therapy.
D. humanistic therapy.
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Samuel receives some very bad news, and feels quite low. As time
passes, you would expect:A. his emotions to return to their usual state.
B. his emotions to stay low until something unusually good happens to him.
C. him to become much happier than usual, since people typically bounce back and forth between emotional extremes.
D. him to stay emotionally low unless he goes in for psychotherapy.
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QUIZ Thursday 4/4
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Definition Slides
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Eclectic Approach
= an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
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Psychotherapy
= treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
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Psychoanalysis
= Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences – and the therapist’s interpretations of them – released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.
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Resistance
= in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
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Interpretation
= in psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.
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Transference
= in psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).
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Psychodynamic Therapy
= therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight.
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Insight Therapies
= a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses.
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Client-centered Therapy
= a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate client’s growth. (Also called person-centered therapy.)
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Active Listening
= empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Roger’s client-centered therapy.
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Unconditional Positive Regard
= a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
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Behavior Therapy
= therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
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Counterconditioning
= a behavior therapy procedure that used classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.
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Exposure Therapies
= behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid.
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Systematic Desensitization
= a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.
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Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
= an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking.
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Aversive Conditioning
= a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).
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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.
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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.
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Cognitive-behavioral Therapy
= a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).
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Family Therapy
= therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members.
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Regression Toward the Mean
= the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average.
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Meta-analysis
= a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.
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Evidence-based Practice
= clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences.
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Biomedical Therapy
= prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient’s nervous system.
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Psychopharmacology
= the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior.
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Antipsychotic Drugs
= drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder.
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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.
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Antianxiety Drugs
= drugs used to control anxiety and agitation.
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Antidepressant Drugs
= drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters.
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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.
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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)
= the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity.
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Psychosurgery
= surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.
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Lobotomy
= a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.
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Resilience
= the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma.