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Transcript
Myers’ EXPLORING
PSYCHOLOGY
(6th Ed)
Therapy
History of Treatment
Therapy
 ___________________
 an emotionally charged, confiding interaction
between a trained therapist and someone
who suffers from psychological difficulties
Therapy
 Single Orientation Approach
 An approach to psychotherapy that uses a
single theoretical framework, or paradigm by
which therapy is performed.
 ______________ Approach
 an approach to psychotherapy that,
depending on the client’s problems, uses
techniques from various forms of therapy
Theories in
Psycho-therapy
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Psychoanalysis
Humanistic Therapy
Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Therapy
______________ Therapy
Post-Modern Therapy
 Solution Focused Therapy
TherapyPsychoanalysis
 ______________________
 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
 use has rapidly decreased in recent years
TherapyPsychoanalysis
 Defense Mechanisms
 A psychological/behavioral strategy that aims to
protect oneself from psychological harm
 See Handout
 Interpretation
 the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings,
resistances, and other significant behaviors in order
to promote insight
 ________________________
 the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions
linked with other relationships
 e.g. love or hatred for a parent
Humanistic Therapy
 Client-Centered Therapy
 humanistic therapy developed by ________________
 therapist uses techniques
such as active listening
within a genuine, accepting,
empathic environment to
facilitate clients’ growth
 his techniques are
incorporated into almost all forms
of therapy today
Humanistic Therapy
 _________ Listening-empathic listening in which
the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies
Behavior Therapy
 Behavior Therapy
 therapy that applies learning principles to the
elimination of unwanted behaviors
 Counterconditioning
 procedure that conditions new responses to
stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors
 based on classical conditioning
 includes systematic desensitization
Behavior Therapy
 Exposure Therapy
 treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination
or reality) to the things they fear and avoid
Behavior Therapy
 Systematic Desensitization
 type of counterconditioning
 associates a pleasant, relaxed state with
gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
 commonly used to treat ______________
Behavior Therapy
 Systematic Desensitization
Behavior Therapy
 _____________ Economy
 an operant conditioning procedure that
rewards desired behavior
 patient exchanges a token of some sort,
earned for exhibiting the desired behavior, for
various privileges or treats
 Sticker charts
 Happy face charts
Behavior Therapy
The Big Question
 What come first thinking or feeling?
Cognitive Therapy
Cognitive Therapy
 teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking
and acting
 based on the assumption
that ___________ intervene
between events and
our ____________
• Aaron Beck & Albert Ellis
Cognitive Therapy
 A cognitive
perspective on
psychological
disorders
Cognitive Therapy
Event
Imagine that you and your partner have
gone out to dinner. You have a wonderful
romantic dinner at a fancy French restaurant.
As your partner reaches into their wallet or
purse, they accidentally drop a small piece of
paper on the floor. You pick up the paper and
it reads
“Call Me- I need to see you tonight- Terri
555-5555”
Family Therapies
 Family Therapy
 treats the family as a ___________
 views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as
influenced by or directed at other family
members
 attempts to guide family members toward
positive relationships and improved
communication
Post Modern Therapy
 New approaches to treating problems
 Solution Focused Therapy
 Focus on solutions, not problems
 There is no “digging” for explanations
 Therapist focuses on client’s __________ and
_________________
 Therapist does not take an expert stance
 Focus language away from problem saturated talk
 VIDEO
Evaluating
Psychotherapies
Number of
persons
Average
untreated
person
Poor outcome
_____________ of untreated people have poorer
outcomes than average treated person
Average
psychotherapy
client
Good outcome
Who do you
turn to for help?
 To whom do
people turn for
help for
psychological
difficulties?
Mental Health
Professionals
 Clinical __________________
 Most are psychologists with a Ph.D. or a PsyD
and expertise in research, assessment, and
therapy, supplemented by a supervised
internship
 About half work in agencies and institutions,
half in private practice
Mental Health
Professionals
 Clinical Social Worker
 A two-year Master of Social Work graduate
program plus postgraduate supervision
prepares some social workers to offer
psychotherapy, mostly to people with
everyday personal and family problems
Mental Health
Professionals
 Therapists and Counselors
 Marriage and family therapist specialize in
problems arising from family relations
 Pastoral counselors provide counseling to
countless people
 Abuse counselors work with substance
abusers and with spouse and child abusers
and their victims
Mental Health
Professionals
 Psychiatrists
 Physicians who specialize in the treatment of
psychological disorders
 Not all psychiatrists have had extensive
training in psychotherapy, but as M.D.s they
can __________________. Thus, they tend
to see those with the most serious problems
 Many have a private practice
Drug Therapies
• ______________________
• study of the effects of drugs on mind and
behavior
• has increasingly become the predominant
form of treatment for psychological disorder
• often drug therapies are combined with
psychotherapy to produce more effective
results
Common Therapeutic
Drugs
 Prozac
 Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
(______)’s
 Prescribed for depressive disorder, obsessive
compulsive disorder, and bulimia
 _________________
 A stimulant
 Prescribed for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder
Common Therapeutic
Drugs
 Xanax
 Anti-anxiety medication
 Prescribed for various anxiety disorders
 Zyprexa
 Anti-psychotic medication
 Prescribed to treat psychotic symptoms of
various disorders including schizophrenia
Drug Therapies
Drug Therapies
Biomedical Therapies
 Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
 therapy for severely depressed patients in
which a brief electric current is sent through
the brain of an anesthetized patient
 still used today
 Psychosurgery
 surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue
in an effort to change behavior
 lobotomy
 now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to
calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients
Electroconvulsive
Therapy