Treatment of Psychological Disorders

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Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Objective of Therapy
To alter the clients behavior, thoughts, and/or
feelings.
A little bit of History
-In early societys a process called trephining
was used to let harmful spirits escape the
mentally ill. -today there is more emphasis on
preventative efforts and tertiary prevention to
keep peoples mental health issues from becoming
more severe
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Psychoanalytic Therapy

• A technique developed by Freud to view the cause
  of disorders as unconscious conflicts.
• Use hypnosis as an altered state of consciousness
  
• Dream analysis- latent (hidden) manifest
  (content)
• Transference- When patients begin to have strong
  feelings toward their therapist

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Humanistic
-Focus on helping people to understand, set
themselves and strive to self actualize Carl
Rogers -client centered therapy -unconditioned
positive rearguard -Gestalt Therapy Therapists
such as Fritz Perls emphasize the importance of
the whole
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Behavioral
-All behavior is learned by either classical
conditioning, operant conditioning, and
modeling Counter Conditioning -Mary Cover
Jones -unpleasant conditioned response is
replaced with a pleasant one Systematic
Desensitization Counter Conditioning Implosive
therapy-Classical Conditioning -extinguished -flo
oding Aversive conditioning Token
Economy-desired behaviors are rewarded with tokens
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Cognitive
Locate the cause of psychological problems in the
way people think, their methods of therapy
concentrate on changing these unhealthy thought
patterns Rational Emotive Behavior
Therapy -Albert Ellis -expose and confront the
dysfunctional thoughts Cognitive Therapy -Aaron
Beck -Cognitive triad-peoples beliefs about
themselves, their worlds and their futures
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Somatic
Therapies that produce bodily changes For
example Chemotherapy Thorazine or Haldol for
Schizophrenia Antidepressants Barbiturates for
anxiety Electroconvulsive Therapy Prefrontal
lobotomy
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Group Therapy
Involves groups of people in addition to one on
one client therapist interactions -Family
Therapy -Self help group (AA)
Kinds of Therapist
Psychiatrist- medical doctor Clinical
Psychologists- (Ph.D.s) Counseling Psychologists-
graduate degree Psychoanalyst- trained in
Freudian Methods