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Chapter Thirteen
Therapies
Psychotherapy
• The use of psychological techniques to treat personality and behavior disorders
Insight Therapies
Insight Therapies
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Psychoanalysis
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Free association
o Positive or negative transference may occur
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The analyst’s growing active interpretation promotes insight
o Classic psychoanalysis
Client-centered therapy
o Clients (not “patients”)
o Therapists provides unconditional positive regard in a nondirective
atmosphere
Gestalt therapy
• Emphasizes wholeness of the person
Recent developments
• Short-term psychodynamic therapy
Behavior Therapies
Behavior Therapies
o Desensitization, extinction and flooding
§ Systematic desensitization
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Extinction
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Flooding
o Aversive conditioning
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Therapies based on Operant conditioning
o Behavior contracting
o Token Economy
Therapies based on Modeling
Cognitive Therapies
Cognitive therapies
• Based on changing the clients perceptions of their life situation as a means to
modify their behavior
Stress-Inoculation Therapy
Rational-Emotive Therapy
• Therapist’s confront dysfunctional beliefs
Beck’s cognitive therapy (AKA cognitive therapy)
Group Therapies
Self-help groups
Family Therapy
Couple Therapy
o Empathy training
o Behavioral techniques
Effectiveness of Psychotherapy
Effectiveness of various forms of therapy
Biological Treatments
Drug Therapies
• Antipsychotic drugs
o Tardive dyskinesia
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Antidepressant drugs
o MAO (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) inhibitors and tricyclics
o Prozac
o Lithium
o Other medications
§ Psychostimulants
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Antianxiety medications
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Sedatives
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
o Unilateral ECT:
Psychosurgery
Caring for the Seriously Disturbed
Deinstitutionalization
Alternative forms of Treatment
Prevention
• Primary prevention
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Biological:
Secondary prevention
o Disorder already exists
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Tertiary prevention
Client Diversity and Treatment
Gender and treatment
Culture and treatment