Therapy and Treatments Study Guide

These flashcards cover key concepts and definitions related to therapy and treatments discussed in the lecture notes.

Psychotherapy

Talking-based treatment where a therapist helps a person understand their feelings and thoughts, often used to treat anxiety.

Biomedical Therapy

Medications that affect the brain & nervous system, such as prescribing antidepressants to help a depressed patient.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy

A therapy that challenges negative thoughts and replaces them with realistic ones, used to treat disorders like depression and anxiety.

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic approach using free association and dream analysis to uncover unconscious conflicts, used to treat anxiety, depression, and personality disorders.

Dialectic Behavior Therapy

A therapy that involves practicing emotional regulation skills, such as mindfulness and distress tolerance, often used for borderline personality disorder and self-harm behaviors.

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)

A therapy that reduces emotional distress by recalling traumatic memories while performing guided eye movements, used to treat PTSD and related anxiety.

Typical Neuroleptic Antipsychotics

Medications that may reduce positive symptoms of schizophrenia by affecting dopamine levels but can lead to fewer movement side effects.

Atypical Neuroleptic Antipsychotics

Medications that affect both dopamine and serotonin levels, potentially improving symptoms of schizophrenia.

Adderall

A medication that increases dopamine and norepinephrine, improving focus and attention; primarily used for ADHD.

Vyvanse

A medication that boosts dopamine and norepinephrine levels, helping with ADHD and binge eating disorders.

Sertraline

An SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) that increases serotonin levels in the brain, used to treat depression, anxiety, OCD, and PTSD.