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Treatment of Psychological
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Define cognitive-behavior therapy
Based on a combination of substituting
healthy thoughts for negative thoughts and
beliefs and changing disruptive behaviors
in favor of healthy behaviors
Define humanistic therapy
Is a form of therapy that uses active
listening, acceptance, and support to help
patients see and fulfill their potential.
Define transference
The process of a client feeling toward a
therapist the way he or she feels toward
some other important person. They client
then can feel and realize what is
happening.
What is the purpose of dream analysis and
how do therapists use it?
Helps therapists identify unconscious
thoughts, feelings, and motives. Manifest
content is the part of the dream that is
remembered. Latent content refers to the
hidden meanings represented
symbolically.
Explain the process of psychoanalysis.
Uses free association and dream analysis
techniques to understand unconscious
thoughts and motives.
List and describe the techniques involved
in client-centered therapy
Uses nondirective therapy and active
listening in an atmosphere of unconditional
positive regard
Define behavior therapy
Is a type of therapy that uses counter
conditioning, operant conditioning, and
systematic desensitization.
A technique in which people are urged to
imagine a feared situation in order to
extinguish the fear is called ______.
Systematic desensitization
List and explain the biological approaches
to treatment
Drug therapy treats symptoms of various
disorders. ECT causes a convulsion and
can help those with severe depression.
How do aversive conditioning and
contingency management work?
Associates negative feelings or results
with undesired behaviors to allow the
person to begin to change behavior. In
contingency management, the therapist
and client decide what old behaviors need
to be eliminated.
Describe how antipsychotic drugs,
antidepressants, and antianxiety drugs
work as therapy.
These approaches to treatment assume
that there is an underlying physiological
reason for the disturbed behavior.
Why is psychosurgery controversial and
why is it used?
Is the surgical removal of a portion of the
brain. Its controversial because it’s
irreversible and may not work.
What is lithium carbonate and what is it
used for?
The chemical lithium carbonate is widely
used to return manic-depressive people to
a state of equilibrium in which extreme
mood swings disappear.
How does cognitive therapy differ from
behavior therapy?
Cognitive therapists seek to change
beliefs that will change the way people feel
about events.
List and describe rational-emotive therapy
techniques.
Role playing allows people to see how
their beliefs affect their relationships.
Modeling demonstrates other ways of
thinking and acting. Humor can point out
the absurdity of beliefs.
Explain Beck’s cognitive therapy.
Focus is on illogical thought processes.
Use persuasion and logic to change
existing beliefs and encourage clients to
engage in actual tests of their own beliefs.
List and describe 2 examples of group
therapy and how these types of therapy
help patients.
Family therapy helps families who are
dealing with communication issues. Selfhelp groups such as AA allow people to
help one another work through problems
they have in common.
What are the goals of therapy and what is
meant by the eclectic approach?
The primary goal of psychotherapy is to
strengthen the clients control over his or
her life.
List and briefly describe five kinds of
therapists.
Clinical psychologists treat people with
psychological disorders in hospitals.
Clinical neurophysiologists work with brain
injuries. Psychiatrists prescribe
medications. Psychoanalysts practice
psychotherapy.
What are the functions of psychotherapy?
Is helping people realize that they are
responsible for their problems and that
they are the only ones who can solve
them.