Therapy

Question 1

What is psychoanalytic therapy?

Answer 1

talk therapy. psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems

Question 2

What is humanistic therapy?

Answer 2

Emphasizes realization of human potential

Question 3

What are important qualities of Rogers’s person-centered therapy (e.g., nondirective)?

Answer 3

• Unconditional positive regard
• Empathy
• Reflection

Question 4

What is exposure therapy?

Answer 4

confronts clients with what they fear

replace fear and stimulus with relaxation and stimulus
- “I’m afraid of planes, but my child is getting married in Australia”

Question 5

What is flooding?

Answer 5

client confronts the feared stimulus all at once

-snake phobia so my therapist is gonna “flood” me. He’ll put me in a room with lots of snakes and lock me in a room. Eventually, I will learn that I am okay.

Question 6

What is systematic desensitization?

Answer 6

relax as they are gradually exposed to what they fear (Peter, Rabbit, and Cookie)

Question 7

What is a token economy?

Answer 7

desirable behaviors are rewarded with tokens that patients can exchange for tangible rewards

Question 8

What is cognitive therapy?

Answer 8

• Focuses on thought processes that underlie psychological symptoms
• Aaron Beck – automatic thoughts
• Therapist questions patient’s distorted assumptions and beliefs

Question 9

What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?

Answer 9

• Combination of cognitive and behavior therapies
• Identifies automatic thoughts
• Focus on changing thoughts and behavior
• roleplaying

Question 10

Is psychotherapy effective?

Answer 10

• 75% people say yes
• All forms more effective than no therapy
• Efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy better established than other forms

Question 11

Drug therapies (Schizophrenia)

Answer 11

-antipsychotic drugs
Very effective for positive symptoms
Side effects

Question 12

Drug therapies (Anxiety)

Answer 12

• anti-anxiety medications (GABA agonists)

- Useful for short-term – calm jittery feelings, relax muscles

Question 13

Drug therapies (Depression)

Answer 13

• antidepressant medications

- Most common – selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)

Question 14

Drug therapies (Bipolar disorder)

Answer 14

mood stabilizer – lithium

Question 15

What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?

Answer 15

• brief burst of electric current to induce seizure in brain
• More effective than antidepressant drugs
• Side effect – memory loss
• last resort

Question 16

What is dream interpretation?

Answer 16

Therapist focuses on unconscious symbols in dreams

Question 17

What is free association?

Answer 17

speak freely. Get to unconscious thoughts, past the “think before we speak” filter

Question 18

What is behavioral therapy?

Answer 18

uses principles of learning and conditioning

Question 19

What are classical conditioning and operant conditioning methods?

Answer 19

Classical Conditioning - exposure therapy (flooding and systematic desensitization)

Operant Conditioning - Use reinforcement and punishment (Token economy)