THERAPIES -1 POSITIVE PSYCH

the flourishing scale

indicates your degree of agreement with each item below, a high score reproesents a person with many psych resources and stengths

positive subjective experiences

moo

moood

long lasting state of mind

good mood → cheerful and upbeat

the duncker candle task

examines lien between mood and creative problem solving

hypotheses: does positive mood promote creative problem solving ?

experimental group eatched → funny blooper

control group → neutral video

expirement →fix candle to corkboard that it will burn without getting wax on the floor

funny film were more likly to solve task in alloted time

conclusion: yes

drowsy driving

( MOST READ THROUGH SLIDES MYSELF )

• being too tired to remain alert while driving

• common and often deadly danger on roads

• just as deadly as drunk driving

• COUPLE QUESTIONS ON THE EXAM

young lady with borderline personality disorder

• had difficulty getting diagnosed

• Sammy-Marie Grim

• fought for right to diagnosis. fell victim to 2 wrong diagnosis/

• how does it effect behavior?

  • impulsive

  • not having a sense of identity… will force impulsive behavior like dying hair

  • constantly terrified people like her boyfriend, friends will leave her

• goes through splitting. balck/white thinking. loving someone to ABSOUTELY hating them over minor things. SUCH AN INTENSE feeling. GOES FROM 0-100

• dealt with self-harm. 100 days self-harm free.

• every year i had to find a new office as a dental assistant. i was so unstable with working relationships.

• 2017, start going to therapy… got really depressed in bed for 8 months. no work. ( weight of stigma, and severity of diagnosis hurt her )

• therapy, and medecine, self-care/behaviors have changed her life. and great support system.

problems with prsonality disorders

there’s a lot of OVERLAP diangnostic critera between different disorders

however, you need to pay attention to things which are unqiue to one order like identiy disturbance.

plus, people can just have MULTIPLE DISORDERS.

dialecitcal behavior therapy and good psychiatric managment

both developed speciicfically for BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER

mentalization based therapy

help people identify and understand what OTHER people might be feeling

talk therapy

therapies for borderline personality disorder

dialecitcal behavior therapy

psychiatric managment

mentalization based therapy

transferrence focused therapies

transference focused therapy - TO TREAT BPD

understand emotions, and interpersonal ( lien ) problems through the relationship they form through their therapist

( remember Freud’s transference excercises … like that )

good psychiatric management - TO TREAT BPD

BASIS OF GPM THERAPY

most people with BPD get better over time

lasting change does not requre intense treatment

WHO CAN DO IT

can be done by nurses, doctors, and therapists

WHAT DO THEY FOCUS ON

• problemsolving

• education

• realistic goal-setting

medication - TO TREAT BPD

little evidence that it is worth it or effective

BPD peeps are usually given LOTS of medecine to control impulsivity, depression, and anxiety syndromes

self care activites - to treat BPD

sleep, nutrition, excercise, taking medecine as prescrive,healthy stress management

these are effective against BPD

self-care activites will usally be presrcribeed as well.

dialectical behavior therapy - TO TREAT BPD

BASED ON

• mondfulness/cognitive hevaior therapy

• pay attention to curent emotions, seek balance between accepting ad changing behavior

• ON SLIDES

hikikomori

pathological social isolation

refers to people who withdrawfrom society into selcuison

some never leave their rooms

( think depressed main character in anime )

rent-a-sister video

• one was crying veryday ( asked if i was boy or a girl, noly has girl friends, nucturnal all night playing video games, became violent, was on medecine ) (our society is very hard on the weak )

• the other was angry at the world

• hikkokori father( broke her ribs, punched wife, even after mother died, refused to leave his room )

  • have to talk to him thru the door

  • not try to control

  • worries about them, an equal

• getting paid to help hikikomori

• dreamed up by organization called “NEW START“

• $900 a month, for people which are NOT medical proffesionals, job is to coax them into real-life

• lazy and dangerous are false stereotypes

• RAS #1 →

  • no technqiue, i just try to connect

  • no medical training

  • ( they can suggest medical help if necessary )

  • visit him every 2 weeks

  • managed to move out of home, but cant hold down a job

  • quite rate for patient to enjoy seeing her

  • patient likes her, cheers her up,

  • being fake, people will rceiver her better

  • have to be patient if client will not respond

rent-a-sister video questions

• why are fiamilies reluctanct to get help

  • society shame

  • society stigma

  • RAS, helps as the sisters are not medical proffesional so families avoid stigma

• streategies that RAS use ?

  • connect with them on a human level

  • talk as equals

  • be themselves, avoid being fake

  • form a social connection ( writing letters, even if you dont talk to them )

• how long does it take to built trust, and start recover process ?

  • 6 months to 2 years

• young man, Kento, who was bullied ?

  • feminine features, and friends

  • was bullied

  • got depressed

  • became hikikomoro

  • enjoys RAS, social support, better than being alone

• RAS HAVE HELPED 3000 hikikomori

• what disorder does it remind you of?

  • agorohpobia

  • IT IS NOT THE SAME.

  • sim9ls: ( fear of going out, not leaving )

  • diff: (not fear of having panic attack, its fair of people/being adisappoinmtment)

  • you can develop agorphobia ( panic attacks as well) from hikikomori

sleep terror disorder

AKA night terrros

NREM

non rapid eye movement sleep

N3

stage 3 of NREM

SWS

slow-wave-sleep .

deepest stage of sleep

VOID WAKING UP PEOPLE WITH

SLEEP TERROR DISORDR

THEY WILL BECOME AGITATED.

ROSA’S NEIGHBOOR

after getting sick her daughter’s night terros came back

scheduled awakenings - treatment for sleep terror

sleep diary for 2 weeks keeping track of when their child has sleep terrors

then they will wake them up a few minutes before they have sleep terrors

this works, sleep terrors will subside.

sleep paralysis

cant open eyes, but can see through their eye lids

when do we dream

does not only occur during REM SLEEP,

muscle atonia, keeps us from acting out our dreams

our body paralyses us basically

sleep paralysis is when you have muscle atonia, but you’re not dreaming of anything

hallucinations in sleep paralysis

people may see demons, animal boejct that arent there, sense they are going to die becausse of chest compression

lucid dreams

conscious dreaming while your dreaming

rona and sleep paralysis

use state of sleep paralysis to launch into lucid dreams

so she can have flying dreams

rona sleep disorder, ( talking ) only occured when she was upset when she was younger

REM BEHAVIOR DISORDER

muscle atonia does NOT WORK

you act out your dreams

people can be violent

can be found in children if they have nuerological disorder or brain injury

older couple REM behavior disorder

connected over theatre

Rick started showing signs of dementia

REMBD is often misdiagnosed

they thought he had alzheimers at FIRST . then they said demention and rem disordr.

causes a person to act out violent dreams, 2/3 of bed partners being injured.

can cause fractures

wears a patch to releive systems

melatonin can help.

the wife said: dont waste time, dont wait to get treatment.

librarian w/ severe autims

jaiden is a teenager who is 19, autisitc and NONVERBAL.

good friend, brother, .

we like him the way he is. he wouldn’t be jaiden. the more a normal life includes people like jaiden, the better life will be.

they included Jaiden, in musical theatre, they use the buddy system. when he gets distracted they guide him. he only says BAH BAH. he loves the routine. he loves the group. loves highfives.

challenges with unique talents & abilities

volunteers at the library

better than staff at all tasks

good with numbers and blah lbha

people in video say he could work at bank or anyhere where organisation is important

he wants emploers to give adults with autism a chance

autism people are underemployed, they need people who will communicate for them and advocate for thme

6% have partime jobs,

meticulon, hires people with autism for website testing. they will do this job for a long time, not get tired and still love it, more stable employees.