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Therapy
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What types of psychological therapies are there? 4 Psychoanalysis 4 Humanistic therapy 4 Behavior therapy 4 Cognitive therapy 4 Group & family therapy
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Psychoanalysis 4 Sigmund Freud 4 Assumes problems are created by childhood memories, impulses and conflicts 4 Psychoanalysis brings these childhood memories and conflicts into consciousness to be “worked through” and resolved.
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Psychoanalysis (cont.) 4 Therapist uses “free association” (say what comes to mind) and dream analysis (interpretation of latent content of dreams) to get at repressed impulses. 4 Problems with psychoanalysis –Difficult to determine effectiveness scientifically –Too lengthy - takes years with several sessions a week.
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Humanistic Therapy 4 Client Centered Therapy –Carl Rogers –Emphasizes your potential for self fulfillment –Focus on the present, not the past –Conscious not unconscious –You are responsible for your actions.
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Client Centered Therapy (cont.) 4 Unconditional positive regard –I accept what you say without judgment 4 Active listening –Paraphrasing -Restate the ideas in your own words. 4 Invite clarification - Do you have an example? I want to understand. 4 Reflect feelings - “That sounds frustrating?”
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Client Centered Therapy (cont.) 4 Results –As therapist reflects unconditional positive regard (acceptance), the clients begins to accept themselves and feel valued.
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Behavior Therapy 4 Views problems as learned behavior, not based on unresolved childhood conflicts 4 Applies learning principles to eliminate unwanted behavior.
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Classical conditioning 4 Bedwetting alarm pad
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Systematic Desensitization 4 You can not be both relaxed and have high anxiety 4 Paring relaxation with what creates fear –Spider example
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Aversive conditioning 4 Associates negative behavior with negative feelings 4 Mother spanks child for running into the street 4 Pedophiles & shock 4 Alcohol & nausea
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Token economy 4 Reward for positive behavior 4 When patient makes his bed, he gets a token (plastic coin) that can be exchanged for candy, T.V. viewing, etc.
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Cognitive therapy
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4 Assumes: Thinking effects feelings 4 Event - your mind - your response 4 E.g. self-blame and overgeneralization of negative events creates depression.
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Cognitive therapy
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Group and Family Therapy 4 Group therapy –6 - 10 people –Often as effective as individual therapy –Cheaper –Allows a social content Feedback from others You are not alone
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Group and Family Therapy (Cont.) 4 Support groups –Not quite the same as group therapy –No “therapist” - members support each other with a director 4 Family therapy –No person is an island –The family is the patient - not just the person with the “symptoms”.
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Evaluating Psychotherapies
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How effective are psychotherapies? 4 Regression toward the mean –Will people get better anyway? –The tendency for unusual events to return to normal
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Alternative Therapies 4 Light Exposure Therapy –For seasonal affective Disorder (SAD) –Winter depression –Light boxes used in the morning appear to be effective.
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Biomedical therapies
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Effectiveness of drug therapies 4 Placebo effect –You get what you expect –If you think something will help, often it does. 4 Double blind technique –Used to determine the extent of the placebo effect. –Separating the direct effect of the drug from the expectations of its effectiveness. 4 E.g. Testing antianxiety medication.
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