Transcript Therapy - kyle

Abnormal Psychology:
Therapy
Professionals
Type
Counseling
Psychologist
Clinical
Psychologist
Psychiatrist
Psychiatric Social
Worker
Psychiatric Nurse
Role
Psychotherapy v. Biological Therapy
Psychotherapy
Individual v. Group Therapy
• Personal attention
• More open
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Not alone
Insight of others
Practice skills
Provides hope –
see others
succeed
• More affordable
• Shorter waiting list
Group Therapy
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Couples
Family
Self-help groups
Encounter groups
1. Psychoanalytic Therapy
• Goal = replace avoidant behavior with
coping behavior, reduce feelings of guilt
and anxiety
• How = free association, dream analysis,
analysis of transference
• Evaluation = good for anxiety, mild
depression, social relationships; better for
educated; 70-75% improve
2. Humanistic Therapy
• Goal = remove obstacles in path to selfactualization
• How = active listening, unconditional
positive regard
• Evaluation = good for anxiety, mild
depression, social relationships; better for
educated; 75% improve
3. Cognitive Therapy
• Goal = replace irrational, self-defeating
attitudes and beliefs with rational, selfenhancing attitudes and beliefs.
• How = encouraging replacement of
irrational beliefs with rational beliefs, teach
techniques to evaluate beliefs and
attitudes
• Evaluation = anxiety, depression (including
major), personality disorders
4. Behavior Therapy (behavior modification)
• Goal = replace maladaptive, self-defeating
behavior with adaptive, self-enhancing
behavior
• How = systematic desensitization, modeling,
aversive conditioning, operant conditioning
• Evaluation = good for specific problems
(phobias, PTS, compulsions), depression,
social problems, self-control, behavior
aspects of Schizophrenia; generally more
effective than psychoanalysis or personcentered therapy
Biological
Therapy
Drug Therapy
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Antianxiety
Antidepressant
Lithium
Antipsychotic
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Psychosurgery
• Prefrontal
Lobotomy