1. Models of Abnormality & Treatment
Abnormal Psychology

2. Biomedical Model Main point:
Mental illness etiology is physical, biological, genetic
Strengths:
Recognizes _____________
Recognizes biology

3. Weaknesses:
Minimizes environment
Implies __________
Sx relief focus
Drug & tx side effects

4. Biomedical Txs Electro convulsive therapy (ECT) -Bilateral ECT
-Unilateral ECT
Psychosurgery (rare cases)
________________
-most popular

5. Psychoanalytic Model Main points: Over determined behavior
Developmental approach
_______________ stages
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, & Genital

6. Unconscious
Individual ________________
Psychic structure
Id, Ego, Superego
Defense mechanisms
e.g., Repression, Denial, Projection

7. Strengths:
Recognizes environment (childhood & social)
Recognizes individual __________
Focus on underlying problem, not just sxs

8. Weaknesses:
Nonverifiable concepts
Minimizes personal control
Biases against women
Relied on restricted population (wealthy Viennese women)
Complicated
Long tx

9. Psychoanalytic/dynamic Tx
Psychoanalysis, Ego analysis, Psychodynamic therapy
Insight
Free association
Dream interpretation
_______________

10. Humanistic-Existential Model
Main Points:
Needs & values
Self actualization
Importance of choice

11. Strengths:
Emphasizes capacity to change
Posits self-regulating nature
Recognizes individual complexity
Recognizes perceptions
Includes personal strengths

12. Weaknesses:
Minimizes _____________
Minimizes differences between disorders
Nonverifiable

13. Humanistic-Existential Tx
“To find yourself”
Client centered therapy
Gestalt therapy
I-language
__________ chair

14. Cognitive Behavioral Model
Main Points:
Cognitions
Learning history

15. Strengths:
Environment & individual interaction
Cognitions
Ability to change
Provides new coping strategies

16. Weaknesses:
Not concerned with etiology
No focus on large envir. changes
Focused on sx reduction
Appropriate for problems that are:
clear
behavioral
immediately accessible _________

17. Behavioral Tx Classical conditioning techniques:
Systematic desensitization
In Vivo, imaginal exposure
___________
Aversion Therapy

18. Operant conditioning techniques:
Contingency Management
Skills Training
Assertiveness training
Social problem solving
Parent training
Modeling
Time management

19. Cognitive Behavioral Tx (CBT)
Cognitive therapy (Beck)
Cognitive triad: ______________
Rational emotive therapy (Ellis)
Irrational beliefs

20. Family System Model Main Points: Disturbance in family, social context
Family interactions are complex

21. Strengths:
Recognizes system (envir.)
Less indiv stigma
Weaknesses:
Resistant, unchanging system
__________________
Bio disorders
Levels beyond the family

22. Family/Social Systems Tx
Couples Therapy
Family Therapy
Group Therapy

23. Group Tx
Psychoeducational
Experiential
Self-help

24. Socio-Cultural Model
Main Point:
Emphasis on larger societal context

25. Strengths:
Recognizes effects beyond ind.
Emphasizes ______________
Weaknesses:
Ind. problems, bio problems
Assumes changes trickle down to ind.

26. Socio-Cultural Tx Primary Prevention Secondary Prevention
Tertiary Prevention

27. Government Action 1965- Surgeon general's warnings on all packages
1971- broadcast advertising banned
1990- smoking banned on buses & domestic flights
1994- Mississippi filed 1st of 22 state lawsuits for smokers' Medicaid bills
1998- Cigarette industry: $251 billion to state gov.s

28. Public Anti-Smoking Campaign