16 Therapy

Psychological Therapies
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Insight therapies
Any type of psychotherapy based n the notion that
psychological well-being depends on self-
understanding
Psychodynamic therapies
Therapies that attempt to uncover childhood
experiences that explain a patients current
difficulties
Psychoanalysis
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Psychodynamic therapies (continued)

Free association
A psychoanalytic
technique used to explore the
unconscious by having patients reveal whatever thoughts
or images come to mind
The analyst pieces together the free-flowing
associations, explains their meaning, and helps
patients gain insight into the thoughts and behavior
that are troubling them
Dream analysis is another technique used by
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Transference
Anintense emotional reaction during psychoanalysis,
when the patient displays feelings and attitudes toward the
analyst that were present in a significant relationship in the
past
Many therapists today practice brief psychodynamic
therapy in which the therapist and patient decide on
the issues to explore at the outset rather than
waiting for them to emerge in the course of
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Crits-Christoph
Found brief psychodynamic therapy to be as effective as
other psychotherapies
Humanistic therapies
Therapies that assume that people have the ability
and freedom to lead rational lives and make rational
choices
Person-centered therapy
A nondirective,
humanistic therapy in which the therapist
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Person-centered therapy (continued)
Developed by Carl Rogers
According to this view, people are innately good and if
allowed to develop naturally, they will grow toward self-
actualization-the realization of their inner potential
Nondirective therapy
An
approach in which the therapist acts to facilitate growth,
giving understanding and support rather than proposing
solutions, answering questions, or actively directing the
course
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Gestalt therapy
A therapy that was originated by Fritz Perls and that
emphasizes that importance of clients fully
experiencing, in the present moment, their feelings,
thoughts, and actions and taking personal
responsibility for their behavior
The goal of Gestalt therapy is to help clients achieve
a more integrated self and become more authentic
and self-accepting
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Directive therapy
An approach to therapy in which the therapist takes an
active role in determining the course of therapy sessions
and provides answers and suggestions to the patient

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Relationship Therapies
Therapies that attempt to improve patients

interpersonal relationships or create
relationships in order to provide them with
support
Interpersonal therapy (IPT)
A brief psychotherapy designed to help depressed
people better understand and cope with problems
relating to their interpersonal relationships

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Interpersonal therapy (continued)

IPT is designed specifically to help patients cope
with four types of problems commonly associated
with major depression:
1. Unusual or severe responses to the death of a loved one
2. Interpersonal role disputes
3. Difficulty in adjusting to role transitions such as divorce,
career change, and retirement
4. Deficits in interpersonal skills

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Couple and family therapy

Family therapy
Therapyinvolving an entire family, based on the
assumption that an individuals problem is caused and/or
maintained in part by problems within the family unit
Couple or family therapy appears to have positive
effects in treating a number of disorders and clinical
problems
Couples therapy can be helpful in the treatment of
sexual dysfunctions
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Group therapy
A form of therapy in which several clients meet
regularly with one or more therapists to resolve
personal problems
Learning that others also chare their problems
leaves people feeling less alone and ashamed
A variant of group therapy is the self-help group
Self-help groups usually are not led by professional
therapists
They are simply groups of people who share a
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Behavior Therapies
A treatment approach employing the principles

of operant conditioning, classical conditioning,
and/or observational learning theory to
eliminate inappropriate or maladaptive
behaviors and replace them with more
adaptive responses
Behavior modification
The systematic application of learning principles to
help a person eliminate undesirable behaviors
and/or acquire more adaptive behaviors; also called
behavior therapy
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Behavior modification techniques based on

operant conditioning
Extinction of an undesirable behavior is
accomplished by terminating, or withholding, the
reinforcement that is maintaining that behavior
Token economies
A behavior modification technique that reinforces desirable
behaviors with tokens that can be exchanged later for
desired objects, activities, and/or privileges
For decades mental hospitals have successfully used
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Behavior modification techniques based on

operant conditioning (continued)
Time out
A behavior modification technique used to decrease the
frequency of undesirable behavior by withdrawing an
individual from all reinforcement for a period of time
Monetary reinforcement has been found to be as
effective as nicotine patches for the reduction of
smoking among them
If you want to modify any of your behaviors, devise a
reward system for desirable behaviors, and
remember the principles of shaping
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Therapies based on classical conditioning

Joseph Wolpe
Reasoned that if he could get people to relax and stay
relaxed while they thought about a feared object, person,
place, or situation, they could conquer their fear or phobia
Systematic desensitization
A behavior therapy that is used to treat phobias and

that involves training clients in deep muscle relaxation
and then having them confront a graduated series of
anxiety-producing situations until they can remain
relaxed while confronting even the most feared
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Causes of mood disorders (continued)

Flooding
A behavioral therapy used to treat phobias, during which
clients are exposed to the feared object or event for an
extended period until their anxiety decreases
Flooding sessions typically last from 30 minutes to 2 hours
and should not be terminated until patients are markedly
less afraid than they were at the beginning of the session
In vivo flooding, the real-life experience, works faster and is
more effective tan simply imagining the feared object

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Exposure and response prevention

A behavior therapy that exposes patients with
obsessive compulsive disorder to stimuli generating
increasing anxiety; patients must agree not to carry
out their normal rituals for a specified period of time
after exposure
Patients treated with exposure are less likely to
relapse after treatment than those treated with
drugs alone
Exposure and resistance therapy has proved useful
in the treatment
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Aversion therapy
A behavior therapy in which an aversive stimulus is
paired with an undesirable behavior until the
behavior becomes associated with pain and
discomfort
Alcoholics are sometimes given a nausea-producing
substance such as Antibes, which reacts violently
with alcohol and causes a person to retch and vomit
until the stomach is empty
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Participant modeling
A behavior therapy in which an appropriate
response is modeled in graduated steps and the
client attempts each step, encouraged and
supported by the therapist
In this therapy, not only does the model
demonstrate the appropriate response in graduated
steps, but the client attempts to imitate the model
step by step, while the therapist gives
encouragement and support
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Cognitive Therapies
Cognitive therapies
Therapies that assume faulty thinking is the basis of
most psychological difficulties
Cognitive therapies are also often referred to as
cognitive-behavioral approaches because they
combine the insights into behavior provided by
cognitive psychology with the methodological
approaches of behaviorism

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Cognitive Therapies
Rational-emotive therapy
A directive, confrontational therapy developed by
Albert Ellis and designed to challenge and modify
the irrational beliefs thought to cause personal
distress
Rational-emotive therapy is based on Elliss ABC
theory
A refers to the activating event,
B to the persons belief about the event
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Use what you have learned about Albert Elliss rational-
emotive therapy to identify-and perhaps even eliminate-an irrational
belief that you hold about yourself.
First, identify an irrational belief, preferably one that causes
some stress in you life. For example, maybe you feel that you must
earn all As in order to think of yourself as a good person
Ask yourself the following questions, and write down your
answers in as much detail as possible.
Where does this belief come from? Can you identify the time in
your life when it began?
Why do you think this belief is true? What evidence can you
think of that proves your belief?
Can you think of any evidence to suggest that this belief is
false? What evidence contradicts your belief? Do you know
anyone who does not cling to this belief?
How does holding this belief affect your life, both negatively
and positively?
How would you life be different if you stopped holding this
belief? What would you do differently?
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Cognitive therapy
Aaron T. Beck
Claimsthat much of the misery endured by a depressed
and anxious person can be traced to automatic thoughts-
unreasonable but unquestioned ideas that rule the
persons life
Cognitive therapy
A therapy designed to change maladaptive behavior by

changing the persons irrational thoughts, beliefs, and
ideas
The goal of Becks cognitive therapy is to help patients
stop their negative thoughts ass they occur and
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Cognitive therapy (continued)

Cognitive therapy is brief, usually lasting only 10 to
20 sessions
Cognitive therapy teaches patients to change the
catastrophic interpretations of their symptoms and
thereby prevent the symptoms from escalating into
panic
Cognitive therapy has proved effective for
generalized anxiety disorder
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Biological Therapies
Biological Therapy
A therapy that is based on the assumption that most
mental disorders have physical causes
Drug therapy
Antipsychotic drugs
Drugs used to control severe psychotic symptoms, such as
the delusions and hallucinations of schizophrenics; also
known as neuroleptics or major tranquilizers
The long-term use of typical antipsychotic drugs carries a
high risk of the most severe side effect
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Antipsychotics (continued)
Newer antipsychotic drugs called atypical neuroleptics can
treat not only the positive symptoms of schizophrenia but
the negative symptoms as well, leading to marked
improvement in patients quality of life
Antidepressants
Drugsthat are prescribed to treat depression and some
anxiety disorders
EEG studies have documented neurological changes in
patients
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Antidepressants (continued)
Thefirst generation of antidepressants are known as the
tricyclics
The tricyclics work against depression by blocking the
reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin into the axon
terminals, thus enhancing the action of these
neurotransmitters in the synapses
The second-generation antidepressants, the selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), block the reuptake of
the neurotransmitter serotonin, increasing its availability at
the synapses in the brain
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Antidepressants (continued)
Another line of treatment for depression is the monoamine
oxidase (MAO) inhibitors
By blocking the action of an enzyme that breaks down
norepinephrine and serotonin in the synapses, MAO
inhibitors increase the availability of norepinephrine and
serotonin
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Lithium
A drug used in bipolar disorder to control the

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Lithium (continued)
Considered a wonder drug for 40-50% of patients
suffering from bipolar disorder
A proper maintenance dose of lithium yields reductions
in depressive episodes as well as manic ones
Recent research suggests that anticonvulsant drugs,
such as Depakote, may be just as effective for
managing bipolar symptoms as lithium with fewer side
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Tranquilizers
The family of minor tranquilizers called benzodiazepines
includes, among others, the well-known drugs sold as
Valium and Librium and the newer high-potency drug
Xanax
Used primarily to treat anxiety, benzodiazepines are
prescribed more often than any other class of psychoactive
drugs
They have been found to be an effective treatment for
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Tranquilizers (continued)
Xanax, the largest selling psychiatric drug, appears to be
particularly effective in relieving anxiety and depression
Xanax is effective in the treatment of panic disorder, and it
works faster and has fewer side effects than
antidepressants
If patients discontinue treatment, relapse is likely
Many patients, once they are panic-free, find themselves
unable to discontinue the drug because they experience
moderate to intense withdrawal symptoms, including
intense anxiety
Valium seems to be just as effective as Xanax for treating
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Disadvantages of drug therapy
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important to not that drugs do not cure psychological
disorders, so patients usually experience a relapse if they
stop taking the drugs when their symptoms lift
Maintenance doses of antidepressants following a major
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

A treatment in which an electric current is passed
through the brain, causing a seizure; usually
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either suicidal or unresponsive to other treatment
For many years, ECT involved passing an electric
current through both cerebral hemispheres, a
procedure known as bilateral ETC
Today electric current is administered to the right
hemisphere
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Rapid transcranial magnetic stimulation
Performed on patients who are not sedated; it causes no
seizures, no memory lose, and has no known side effects
Psychosurgery
Brain surgery to treat some severe, persistent, and
debilitating psychological disorder or severe chronic
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Psychosurgery (continued)
Egas Moniz
Developed the first experimental brain surgery for human
patients to treat severe phobias, anxiety, and obsessions
His technique, the lobotomy, surgeons severed the neural
connections between the frontal lobes and the deeper
brain centers involved in emotion
Eventually it became apparent that this treatment left
patients in a severely deteriorated condition
Modern psychosurgery procedures result in less
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Cingulotomy
Electrodes are used to destroy the cingulum, a small
bundle of nerves connecting the cortex to the emotional
centers of the brain
Several procedures have been helpful for some extreme
cases of obsessive compulsive disorder

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Evaluating the Therapies
Smith, Glass, and Miller

Reanalyzed the results of 475 studies, which
involved 25,000 patients
Revealed that psychotherapy was better than no
treatment, but no one type of therapy was more
effective than another
Hans Eysenck
Showed a slight advantage for behavioral therapies
over other types
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Found an advantage for cognitive and interpersonal
therapies over psychodynamic approaches for
depressed patients
Regardless of training or theoretical
orientation, all therapists are bound by ethical
standards established by professional
organizations and, in most cases, codified in
state laws
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Informed consent
Therapists must inform clients of the cost and
expected duration of therapy prior to beginning any
actual interventions
Clients must be informed of the legal limits of
confidentiality
Therapists are forbidden to engage in any kind
of intimate relationships with clients or with
other who are close to them
Therapists are ethically obligated to use tests
that are reliable
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sensitive Therapy
Culturally sensitive therapy
Kleinman and Cohen
Believes
that people experience and suffer from
psychological disorders within a cultural context that may
dramatically affect the meaning of symptoms, outcomes,
and responses to therapy
Therapeutic alliance
The bond between therapist and client that is known to be
a factor in the effectiveness of psychotherapy
Culturally sensitive psychotherapy
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Culturally sensitive therapy (continued)
Culturally sensitive therapists recognize the
language differences between therapists and
patients can pose problems
Culturally sensitive therapists also attempt to
address group differences that can affect the results
of therapy
Gender-sensitive therapy
An approach to therapy that takes into account the
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Gender-sensitive therapy (continued)
Advocates of gender-sensitive therapy point out that
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Psychological Therapies

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Psychodynamic therapies (continued)

Psychodynamic therapies (continued)

Psychodynamic therapies (continued)

Humanistic therapies (continued)

Gestalt therapy (continued)

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Therapies that attempt to improve patients

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Interpersonal therapy (continued)

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Couple and family therapy

A treatment approach employing the principles

Behavior modification techniques based on

Behavior modification techniques based on

Therapies based on classical conditioning

A behavior therapy that is used to treat phobias and

Causes of mood disorders (continued)

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Exposure and response prevention

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A therapy designed to change maladaptive behavior by

Cognitive therapy (continued)

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Drug therapy (continued)

Drug therapy (continued)

Drug therapy (continued)

A drug used in bipolar disorder to control the

Drug therapy (continued)

Drug therapy (continued)

Drug therapy (continued)

Drug therapy (continued)

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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Electroconvulsive Therapy (continued)

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Smith, Glass, and Miller

Holloa, These, and Marches

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