psyc 101 final exam

Bio 103 Final exam

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:

1. death

2. freedom

3. isolation

4. meaninglessness

humanistic approach

an approach to therapy centered around the idea that people must take responsibility for their actions