Therapy and Treatment Flashcards

Flashcards covering key vocabulary and concepts from a lecture on therapy and treatment methods.

FSH

Free Telehealth and Counseling

Deinstitutionalization

Discharging patients from mental institutions to community-based services

Biomedical Therapies Goal

Treat the biochemical dysfunctions of the brain

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Electrical currents to induce seizures

Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)

Repeated, magnetic pulses

Psychoanalysis Goal

Understanding of unconscious conflicts and early relationships

Behavioral Therapy Goal

Modify maladaptive behaviors

Aversive conditioning

Pair unpleasant stimulus with an undesirable behavior

Systematic desensitization

Substitute a response incompatible with anxiety, uses a hierarchy

Flooding

Facing the anxiety-producing situation

Punishment

Adding or taking away something that reduces a response

Selective reinforcement

Strengthening specific desired behaviors

Token economy

Tokens as rewards

Cognitive Therapy Goal

Understand how thoughts lead to distress

Cognitive-behavioral Therapy Goal

Change maladaptive beliefs and behaviors

Humanistic Therapy Goal

Growth and self-actualization

Treatment Modalities Goal

Treat the individual by treating the unit

Culturally Competent Therapists

Knowledge about the client’s culture, client differs from cultural stereotype, culture-specific elements

Deinstitutionalization

The shift toward treating the mentally ill in their home communities rather than hospitals

Resistance

When a patient blocks a free flow of associations during psychoanalysis

Flooding

A form of in vivo therapy in which a phobic individual is exposed to their most feared object or situation for an extended period of time without opportunity for escape.

Systematic desensitization

Encourages him to physically relax and then simply imagine that he is walking toward a friendly and harmless little dog