Clinical psych treatments

Individual v Group

Group is conducted with peers going through similar experiences and individuals is conducted in a one on one setting

Rational-emotive

Form of psychotherapy that helps you identify negative thoughts and challenges the nature of these thoughts and replaces them with healthier beliefs

Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic

Client self-awareness and understanding of the influence on the past on present behavior

Client centered

Form of talk therapy that operates on humanistic beliefs that the client is inherently driven toward and has the capacity for growth and self actualization

Cognitive

Efforts to change thinking patterns

Behavioral

Using reinforcement and conditioning to alter a behavior

Sociocultural

Can include group, families, and couple therapy/treatemnts

Biopsychosocial

Systematically considers biological, psychological, and their social factors and their interactions

Cognitive behavioral

Uses conditioning and reinforcement to change thinking patterns

Dopamine overactivity

Leads to disturbed thinking, language, and perception

Addictive disorders

Common disorders that involves the overuse of alcohol and/or drugs

Psychoanalysis

A system of psychological therapy that aims at investigating the minds unconscious and repressed fears and conflicts, trying to bring them into the conscious mind using dream interpretation and free association

Psychotherapy

Treatment of mental conditions by verbal communication and interaction

Resistance

Psychological resistance to change

Transferring

The moving of negative feelings and emotions to being directed at the therapist

Insight therapies

A type of therapy that helps the clients understand how events in their past are negatively influencing their current thoughts and behavior

Active listening

Therapist listens closely to the client

Exposure therapies

Form of therapy to help people confront their fears

Systematic desensitization

Treatment for phobias and PTSD where the patient is exposed to progressively more anxiety provoking stimuli

Virtual reality exposure therapy

Use of virtual reality to expose patients to anxiety provoking stimuli

Aversive conditioning

Counter conditioning that pairs a negative behavior with negative stimulus

Meta-analysis

Combination of multiple studies for a similar research question

EMDR

Eye movement desensitization is used to move the eyes in a specific way while you process traumatic memeories (PTSD)

Light exposure therapy

Form of treatment mostly for depression that involves exposure to an artificial light source

Biomedical therapy

Typer of therapy that uses psychologically based treatments to address a mental illness, like drug therapy, electroconvulsive or surgery

psychopharmacology

The use of drugs to treat mental disorders

Anti psychotic drugs

Lower dopamine levels to reduce hallucinations, delusions, can be used for schizophrenia

Ex) Clozapine

Tardive dyskinesia

Condition affecting the nervous system often cause by long term use of psychiatric drugs, causes repetitive involuntary movements, such as grimacing and eye blinking

Anti anxiety drugs

Calms activity in the CNS by increasing GABA, can lead to drug dependence

Ex)Xanax

Antidepressants

Increases availability of norepinephrine or serotonin, use SSRIs to block serotonin reuptake sites

Ex)Seratraline

Electro convulsive therapy

Brief electric current sent through rain for severe depression, induces a mild seizure, boost nuerogenisis

RTMS

Repetitive transcanial magnetic stimulations for depression uses magnetic pulses to stimulate limbic system structures

Psychosurgery

brain surgery used to treat mental disorders

Therapeutic life-style change

Exercise , proper nutrition and diet, effective relationships, self care, stress management and other factors to improve a patients life