Therapy

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• Therapy

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History of Treatment
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Therapy

• Psychotherapy
• an emotionally charged, confiding interaction
  between a trained therapist and someone who
  suffers from psychological difficulties
• Eclectic Approach
• an approach to psychotherapy that uses
  techniques from various forms of therapy

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Therapy- Psychoanalysis

• Freud believed the patients free associations,
  resistances, dreams, and transferences released
  previously repressed feelings, allowing the
  patient to gain self-insight
• Goal make the unconscious conscious

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Therapy- Psychoanalysis

• Interpretation
• analyzing dream meanings, resistances, in order
  to promote insight
• Transference
• the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions
  linked with other relationships
• e.g. love or hatred for a parent

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Psychoanalysis

• Hypnosis to regress back to earlier stages
• Dream analysis
• Free Association
• Resolve unresolved conflict
• Recapture libido to bring to adulthood

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Humanistic Therapy

• Client-Centered Therapy
• humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers
• therapist uses techniques such as active
  listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic
  environment to facilitate clients growth

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Humanistic Therapy

• Active Listening-empathic listening in which the
  listener echoes, restates, and clarifies

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Humanistic Therapy

• Goal make the real match the ideal
• Beliefs humans have constructive, creative
  potential, search for uniqueness, freedom of
  choice, meaningfulness

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Humanistic Therapy

• Climate for disclosure
• Empathic understanding
• Authentic relationship with self and others
• Stay in the here and now
• Unconditional positive regard

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Behavior Therapy

• Behavior Therapy
• therapy that applies learning principles to the
  elimination of unwanted behaviors
• Counter conditioning
• procedure that conditions new responses to
  stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors
• includes systematic desensitization and aversive
  conditioning

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Behavior Therapy

• Abnormal behavior is caused by faulty learning
• Focus stimuli, response, consequence
• Techniques behavior modification
• Contracts
• Charting behavior
• Family therapy

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Behavior Therapy

• Exposure Therapy
• treat anxieties by exposing people (in
  imagination or reality) to the things they fear
  and avoid

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Behavior Therapy

• Systematic Desensitization
• associates a pleasant, relaxed state with
  gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
• commonly used to treat phobias
• Aversive Conditioning
• type of counter conditioning that associates an
  unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
• nausea ---gt alcohol

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Behavior Therapy

• Systematic Desensitization

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Behavior Therapy

• Aversion therapy for alcoholics

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Behavior Therapy

• Token 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

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Cognitive Therapy

• Cognitive Therapy
• Uses cognitive restructuring to change illogical,
  irrational and self-defeating thinking
• A gt B gt C
• Activating Event, Belief, Emotional consequences
• Homework and confrontation

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Cognitive Therapy

• A cognitive perspective on psychological disorders

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Cognitive Therapy

• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
• a popular integrated therapy that combines
  cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating
  thinking) with behavior therapy (changing
  behavior)

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Group and Family Therapies

• Family Therapy
• treats the family as a system
• views an individuals unwanted behaviors as
  influenced by or directed at other family members
• attempts to guide family members toward positive
  relationships and improved communication

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Evaluating Psychotherapies

• To whom do people turn for help for psychological
  difficulties?

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Evaluating Psychotherapies
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Psychology Professionals

• Psychiatrists
• Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
• Clinical psychologists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Licensed Clinical Social Workers
• Psychology Technicians
• Clinical services technicians
• Behavior Analysts

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Psychopharmacology

• Schizophrenia Clozaril, Risperdal, Haldol
• Depression Prozac, Luvox, Paxil., Zoloft
• Anxiety Ativan, BuSpar, Xanax
• Bi-polar Depakote, Lithobid, Tegretol, Topamax
• Psychotropic medications

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Medication Therapies
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MedicationTherapies
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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
• 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
  

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Electroconvulsive Therapy
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Mind-Body Interaction