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Abnormal Psychology Treatments

Abnormal Psychology Treatments. Psychotherapy. “Healing of the soul” Any treatment used by therapists to help people with their problems Involves: Verbal interaction Trust Analysis. Early Approaches. Being inhabited by demons or the devil Treatment: Exorcism

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Abnormal Psychology Treatments

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  1. Abnormal Psychology Treatments

  2. Psychotherapy • “Healing of the soul” • Any treatment used by therapists to help people with their problems • Involves: • Verbal interaction • Trust • Analysis

  3. Early Approaches • Being inhabited by demons or the devil • Treatment: • Exorcism • physical punishment (torture) • burning at the stake • “ship of fools”

  4. Modern Approaches • Viewed as a disease • Seek to help people realize problems on their own and find possible solutions • Examine lifestyle and ways of thinking

  5. Goals of Therapy • Allow patient to take control of his/her life • Reach own goals • Placebo Effect- the effect of a patient’s hopes on improvement • New Vocab: Confidentiality

  6. Support in Therapy • New Vocab: Out-patient • Group • Self-help • Ex. Alcoholics Anonymous • Individual • Family • Couples • Marriage

  7. Types of Therapy • Psychoanalysis • Humanistic • Cognitive • Behavior • Biological • New Vocab- Eclectic

  8. Types of Therapy Jigsaw

  9. Art Therapy • Malchiodi (2006) "In most art therapy sessions, the focus is on your inner experience--your feelings, perceptions, and imagination... and expressing images that come from inside the person… your inner world of images, feelings, thoughts, and ideas is consistently important and primary to the experience. • Activity • Draw your inner thoughts, feelings, emotions, or anything else that comes to mind • Analysis- work with a partner to analyze the piece of art’s deeper meaning

  10. Psychoanalysis • Make patients aware of unconscious motives • Use the following techniques: • Free Association • Dream Analysis • Transference

  11. Humanistic • Focuses on the value, dignity, and worth of each person in achieving full potential • Client-Centered therapy through active listening

  12. Cognitive • Focuses on changing the way people think to control emotions • Changing unrealistic assumptions and beliefs

  13. Behavioral • Changing undesirable behavior • Counter conditioning- desensitization • Operant Conditioning- repetition

  14. Biological • Underlying physiological reasons for behavior • Drug Therapy: • Antipsychotic- tranquilizers • Antidepressant- serotonin • Antianxiety- sedatives

  15. Biological • Electroconvulsive “shock” • Causes a mild seizure • Psychosurgery • Destroys part of the brain • Prefrontal lobotomy • Very rare

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