Bio-Medical Therapy

Biological Model (Medical Model)

Tries to treat illnesses by using medicine/intervention. Views mental illness as a disease

Psychopharmacology

Involves the use of drugs to treat mental illness. The first drugs to treat mental illness were tranquilizers

How many types of psychopharmacology drugs are there?

5

Antipsychotic Drugs

Medicines that treat psychosis (Skitz, multiple personality). They stop delusions and hallucinations. They slow dopamine and reduce synaptic activity

Tardive dyskinesia

An incurable disorder of motor control. Result from long term use of antipsychotic drugs

Antidepressant drugs

Medicines used to treat depression. Usually affect serotonin and/or norepinephrine pathways. They increase brain activity and reuptake.

Mood Stabilizers

Used to trat Bi-Polar disorders and depressions

Anti-anxiety drugs

diminish feeling of anxiety. Relaxes people has slows them down

Stimulants

Increase activity level by encouraging communication among neurons in the brain. Used to treat epilepsy and ADHD. ex) adderall

Psychosurgery (brain surgery)

Surgical interventions can be used to treat mental illnesses

Lobotomies

Cutting out an area of the frontal lobe in an attempt to eliminate negative behaviors/actions

Brain Stimulant Therapies

Efforts to change brain activity/structure without drugs or surgery

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Electricity is used to shock the brain and produce seizures. They have relaxing effects in behavior afterwards

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulants (TIMS)

The use of magnets to stimulate brain. activity

Therapeutic Community, Community mental Health Movement, or Deinstitutionalization

Started by Dr. Max Jones. An effort to move away from mental ward/hospitals and have people treated locally and at home.