Ch 15 - IVCC
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Psychological Therapy
Two types of therapy
Psychotherapy
Talk therapy with a mental health professional
Insight therapists
Main goal is helping people gain insight with respect to their
behavior, thoughts and feelings
Action therapists
Main goal is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior
History
First “mental health hospital” Bethlehem Hospital in
London, known as Bedlam
Blood letting
Beatings
Ice baths
Induced vomiting
1793 began
“moral treatment”
Psychotherapy
Talking things out with a professional
Psychoanalysis
Insight therapy based on Freud's theory
Dream interpretation
Free Association
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Multiple approaches
Insight
Pulls together
Humanistic
Cognitive Behavioral
Focus is on interpersonal problems
Depression
Relationships with others
Events of everyday life
Humanistic Therapy
Carl Rogers
Client or person Centered Therapy
Client does the talking, therapist listens
Shows the client unconditional positive regard
Non directive
Reflective
Empathy
Authenticity
Gestalt Therapy
Directive insight therapy
Client works through accepting all parts of their feelings
and subjective experiences
Use leading questions
Role playing
Behavior Therapy
Action based treatment
Classical and Operant Conditioning
We Learn our abnormal behaviors
And we can unlearn them
Systemic Desensitization
Therapist guides client through a series of steps
Relaxes client in front of feared object
Aversion Therapy
Undesirable behavior is paired with an unpleasant stimulus
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Helps clients change their way of thinking
Makes clients test their thoughts and feelings
Focus is on the present and observations of the world
and those around them
Overgeneralization
Selective thinking
Overgeneralization
Magnification or minimization
Goals of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Relieve the symptoms and resolve the problem
Develop strategies to cope in the future
Change way of thinking
Group Therapies
Can use any of the listed treatments in a session
Family
Self Help
Addiction treatment
How Effective is Therapy
75-90 Percent of people feel that psychotherapy has
helped
Barriers
Cultural