Chapter 16: Therapy and Treatment

Psychotherapy

• Sigmund freud’s psychoanalytic ideas and techniques have has an enourmous impact on psychotherapy and continue to be studied today.

Behavior Therapy

• Mary Cover Jones is regarded by many psychologists as the first behavior therapist

• The bell and pad treatment is based on the principles of classical conditioning.

Non-Individual Therapy

• Group therapy refers to therapy that is provided by one or more therapists working with several people simultaneously.

• The basic premise of family therapy is that the family is a dynamic, interdependent system in which each member plays a distinct role.

Biomedical Therapies

• The most common form of biomedical therapy is drug therapies

• Drugs that alter mental functions, alleviate psychological symptoms, are used to treat psychological disorders are called psychological medications.

Antipsychotic Drugs

• The first antipsychotic medications effectively reduced hallucinations, delusions, and other positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

• Antipsychotic drugs are typically prescribed to treat the psychological disorder of schizophrenia.

• A revolving door pattern refers to the hospitalization, release, and rehospitilization of schizophrenic patients.

Anti-anxiety/Mood Stabilizer Drugs

• Valium, Librium, and other benzodiazepine antianxiety medications are less widely prescribed today then they were twenty years ago

• Bipolar disorder, which is also referred to as manic depression, is commonly treated with a medication called lithium.

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), is primarily used as a treatment for severe depression.

Final Thought

• The relationship between a therapist and client should be a collaborative one.