1 / 16

Agenda – Tuesday, April 15 th

Agenda – Tuesday, April 15 th. Therapy Reading Quiz Overview of therapy perspectives Case study example Homework: NONE. St. Mary of Bethlehem – BEDLAM. Psychoanalysis. Cause of Behavior Behavior comes from unresolved conflicts, usually stemming from childhood Goal of Treatment

Download Presentation

Agenda – Tuesday, April 15 th

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Agenda – Tuesday, April 15th • Therapy Reading Quiz • Overview of therapy perspectives • Case study example • Homework: NONE

  2. St. Mary of Bethlehem – BEDLAM

  3. Psychoanalysis • Cause of Behavior • Behavior comes from unresolved conflicts, usually stemming from childhood • Goal of Treatment • Utilize free association and insight to understand current problems • Encouraged to talk openly about issues • Therapist offers an interpretation of items brought to the surface

  4. Key Terms Resistance Transference • When a patient unconsciously avoids discussing a topic • Patient transfers feeling for subject or person being discussed to the therapist

  5. Which is which?

  6. Humanistic (Client-Centered) • Cause of Behavior • Positive growth and potential is blocked by an unfriendly environment • Everyone is able to grow into the best person they can be • Goal of Treatment • Therapist gives unconditional positive regard • Promotes rational thinking as the solution to problems • Clients should solve their own problems by the end

  7. Key Terms Active Listening Group Therapy • Echoing, restating, or clarifying what a client has just said. Helps acknowledge the feelings the person has • Psychotherapy with more than one client • Usually run by a layperson (aka non professional) • Allows people to cope and grow together

  8. Behavioral • Cause of Behavior • People have been punished and rewarded into behaving and thinking in maladaptive ways • Goal of Treatment • If it was conditioned into existence, it can be conditioned out • Use exposure therapies and desensitization to change how people behave around certain stimuli • Goal is to shape behavior • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOtkLmXxIG4

  9. Agenda – Thursday, April 17th • Finish therapy perspective notes • Alternative therapy readings • Homework: Exam #5 MONDAY!!

  10. Key Words Aversive Conditioning Token Economy • Replace a regular stimulus with one that provides negative results to increase fear or anxiety of it • Goal is to reduce unpleasant behaviors • People are provided with rewards upon changing and altering their behavior • This is how prisons and rehab centers function

  11. Cognitive Therapy • Cause of Behavior • The way a person thinks and perceives the world is leading to maladaptive behavior…leads to anxiety • Someone who believes it is acceptable to steal and murder needs to fix their thought patterns • Goal of Treatment • To change the way someone thinks about a stimulus AND the way they act around the stimulus • Behaviors and thoughts must be practiced

  12. Key Words Beck’s Therapy for Depression • People need to stop looking at the catastrophic effect of their behavior and focus instead on the positive

  13. Biomedical • Cause of Behavior • A chemical imbalance and/or medical condition is causing someone’s behavior to be anxious, erratic, and uncontrollable • Behavior cannot be controlled or fixed through talk therapy • Goal of Treatment • Medicine, prescriptions (such as antianxiety, antidepressant, and antipsychotic drugs), and surgeries ensure control within the brain

  14. Key Terms ECT Prefrontal lobotomy • Controversial therapy where patients receive brief, repetitive electric shocks to the brain to stop anxious feelings • Controversial therapy where a doctor relieves tension in the prefrontal cortex by inserting an icepick or sharp object through the eye socket and into the brain

  15. Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) • Brief electrical current sent through entire brain • Used to treat Depression • Effect is temporary, causes memory loss & seizures Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Only penetrates to the Brain’s surface No Side Effects

More Related