Transcript Introduction - Barrington 220

CHAPTER 17: THERAPY
Overview of Modern Therapy
Introduction and Overview
• Definition of psychological
treatment
• Brief history of treatment
• Modern Therapy
• Models
• Types
Brief history of treatment
• Prior to 1700’s
• Cause of mental illness was
possession by evil spirits or
imbalance of body chemicals
• Treatment included trephining,
bleeding, or torture.
History of Treatment
Pre-scientific treatment
History of Treatment
Pre-scientific treatment
Brief history of treatment
• Prior to 1700’s
• Cause of mental illness was possession by evil spirits or imbalance of
body chemicals
• Treatment included trephining, bleeding, or torture.
• 1700 – 1900
• People with psychological disorders are
"madmen" who should be caged in order to
protect society.
• Anyone undesirable - criminals, lepers, old
people, and the mentally ill - was confined in
asylums.
• Dungeons with horrible conditions.
Reform Movement
Reform Movement
• Philippe Pinel & Dorothea Dix
• Called for improved treatment of the insane
• Worked to improve conditions In mental hospitals
Trenton
Mental
Hospital
Trenton, NJ
Modern Therapy
• The Medical Model
• “Madness” is a mental illness that can be
diagnosed, treated, and cured
• Has links to modern insights into genetic
causes of disorders and modern biomedical
treatments
Modern Therapy
• The Bio-Psycho-Social Model
• Behavior is the result of interaction
between nature and nurture
• To attribute a disorder to “illness” is
to say that the cause is purely
internal
Modern Therapy
• Two approaches:
• Psychotherapy
• A trained therapist uses psychological
techniques to assist someone seeking to
overcome difficulties or achieve personal
growth
• Biomedical Therapy
• A prescribed medication or medical procedure
that acts directly on the patient’s nervous
system
Modern Therapy
• Psychotherapies:
• Over 250 types of psychotherapies exist
• The most influential:
• Psychoanalysis
• Humanistic Therapy
• Cognitive Therapy
• Behavior Therapy
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Insight
Therapy
Modern Therapy
• Biomedical Treatments:
• Drug Therapy
• Electro-convulsive shock therapy
• Psychosurgery
Modern Therapy