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trephination
an early therapy for mental disorders that involved cutting a hole in the skull (to allow demons to release through an exit)
primary psychological therapies
clinical
marriage, family, child
mental health counselor
clinical social worker
biological therapists include…
psychiatrist, general medical practitioner, neurologist, psychiatrist (always requires a license)
subsyndromal disorders
versions of psychological disorders that don’t meet the DSM-5 criteria for diagnosis but may cause significant problems
barriers preventing from some getting therapy include…
physical access
financial access
stigma
failure to see their disorder as a treatable condition
therapy is most beneficial when…
there is a strong sense of rapport
the client is strongly motivated to participate
the type of therapy is well-matched to the disroder
cultural competence
hysteria
a group of presumably psychogenic disorders that included a wide vareity of physical and psychological symptoms; now known as conversion disorder
psychogenic
resulting from a psychological cause rather than from organism damage to the nervous system
free association
a therapeutic methos in which the patient says anything that comes to mind'; even if it’s trivial, embarrassing or disagreeable
resistance
in psychoanalysis, a patient
*CS* existential therapy grounds itself in 4 primary concepts:
death
freedom
isolation
meaninglessness
humanistic approach
an approach to therapy centered around the idea that people must take responsibility for their actions
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