Agenda – Tuesday, April 15 th

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

2. St. Mary of Bethlehem – BEDLAM

4. 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

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

6. Which is which?

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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