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PSYC1101 Ch 14

Therapy: treatment methods aimed at making people feel better and function more efficiently

  • 1 in 5 adults use, but those who dont use but need lack insurance/cost and social stigma

  • Psychotherapy: for psychological disorders where a person wants to make improvement talks

The Psychological Therapies:

Psychoanalysis & psychodynamic

  • Psychoanalysis: therapy based on the theory of Freud, emphasizing revealing of unconscious conflicts

    • focuses on uncovering & working thru unconscious conflicts

  • Psychodynamic: analysze resistance from aptient bc it meant conversaion was getting close to repressed material; newer, more general therapies with empahsis on tranference, shorter treament times, and more direct therapeutic approach

Humanistic therapies

  • emphasized importance of conscious thought, choices made by individuals and potential to change one’s behavior (nothing to do with illnesses, focuses on present/future)

    • insight therapies: aim to imporove psychological functioning by increasing person’s awareness of underlying

behavior therapies

  • based on principles of classical and operant conditioning and aimed at changing disordered behavior w/o concern of causes

cognitive therapies

  • focuses on helping clients recognize distortions in their thinking and replace them with more realistic, helpful thoughts

group, couple, and family therapies

  • simultaneous treatment where several clients meet with one another in a group

    • family therapy: focuses on changing disrupting patterns of communication and improving ways family members relate to each other and resolve problems

    • couple therapy: helps distressed couples resolve conflicts and develop better communication skills

Biomedical Therapy:

  • drug therapy: drugs to treat psychological disorders

  • ECT (electroconvulsive therapy): electric shock used to produce cortical seizure accompanied by convulsions (to treat depression)

  • deep brain stim: uses electrodes placed in specific deep-brain areas that are connected to an impulse generator implanted under collarbone

  • psychosurgery: treating psychological disorders by surgically altering part of brain