Unit 10: Evaluating psychotherapies, prevention strategies

Cognitive and cognitive behavioral therapies are effective at treating which disorders?

Primarily anxiety, PTSD, insominia, depression

Behavioral conditioning therapies are effetcive at treating which disorders?

Phobias, compulsions, sexual dysfuncion

Clients response to therapy

• 90% satisfied

• people often enter in crisis

• believe treatment will be effective

• client wants to believe therapy works

Psychodymanic therapies are effective at treating which disorders

Depression, anxiety

Person centered therapy is effective at treating which disorders

mild to moderate depression

EMDR Therapy (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)

Utilizes guided eye movements while fosucing on a traumatic memeory which helps the brain reprocess

Light Exposure Therapy

Utilizes

Antipsychotic drugs

Drugs used to stabilize and treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorders

Anti-anxiety drugs

Drugs used to mitigate anxiety

Anti-depressants drugs

Used to treat depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, OCD, PTSD

Mood stabilizer drugs

Used in effort t control manic episodes assciated with bipolar disorder

ECT therapoy- Electroconvulsive

A biomedical therapy for sever depression in which a brief current is sent through the brain of an anesthetusized person

Magnetic Stimulation

The application of recreated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain: used to stimulate or supress brain movement

Deep brain stimulation

Experiemental treatment which pinpoints a neural hub that brudges thinking to the limbic system that may be overactive in a depressed state

Pyschosurgery

Surgery that remves or destroys brain tissue to change behavior

Therapeatic lifestyle change

Our lifestyle effects our mental health and can dictate biological effects