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1 Treatment of Abnormal Behavior THE ABRIDGED VERSION

2 Psychoanalysis - Focus: Unconscious Conflict, Techniques: Dream Analysis, Free Association, Projective Tests (Freud) Humanistic - Focus: Helping people understand and accept themselves. Techniques: Client-Centered Therapy (Rogers) focused on helping the client choose a course of action. Gestalt (Part of Humanistic)- Focus: Emphasis on the Whole. Techniques: Clients should get in touch with their whole self including feelings they may not be aware of (not just addressing the problem presented). Existential - Focus: Finding meaningful perception of life. Techniques: Have client create a vision of a worthwhile life. Behavioral - Focus: Changing harmful behaviors. Techniques: Counterconditioning (unpleasant response), Systematic desensitization using anxiety hierarchy, flooding (exposure to highest fear first), aversive conditioning (to break a bad habit). Cognitive - Focus: Changing the client’s way of thinking. Techniques: cognitive therapy for depression involving cognitive triad of self, world and future (Beck). Cognitive-Behavioral - Focus: Changing thought to change behavior. Techniques: Challenging illogical thinking, assigning behavior homework (Ellis). Group - Focus: Helping a large group rather than individual. Techniques: family therapy, couples therapy, self help groups. Therapies

3 Biomedical  Pharmacology, chemotherapy (Drugs)  Anxiety-barbiturates, benzodiazepines (Xanax, Valium)- work to depress central nervous system  Depression-(Prozac, Zoloft)- work with blocking Serotonin reuptake.  Bipolar-Lithium (manic phase)  Schizophrenia- Antipsychotics (neuroleptics: Haldol, Thorazine)-block production of dopamine at receptor sites.  Invasive Procedures  ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy): electrical current passed through the brain, can cause memory loss. Used for severe depression.  Psychosurgery- Lesioning, Prefrontal Lobotomy (removing part of frontal lobe). Goal: Change the brain to change behavior.


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