Psychotherapy Unit 12 Psychotherapy u What is it

Psychotherapy Unit 12

Psychotherapy u What is it? u What is involved? u Psychiatrists vs. Psychologists u Types – Insight – Behavior – Biomedical – Other

Insight Therapy u Psychoanalysis therapies – Techniques (from Freud) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. u Free association Dream Analysis Analyzing Resistance Analyzing Transference Interpretation Psychodynamic therapies

Insight Therapy u Cognitive therapies – Self-talk – Cognitive Restructuring – Albert Ellis: Rational-Emotive Therapy • • A: Activating Event B: Belief System C: Consequence D: Disputing – Aaron Beck u Selective Perception u Overgeneralization u Magnification u All-or-Nothing Thinking

Insight Therapy u Humanistic Therapies – Carl Rogers: Client-centered therapy u 1. u 2. u 3. u 4. Empathy Unconditional positive regard Genuineness Active Listening – Gestalt therapy u Fritz Perls

Insight Therapy u Group, Family, and Marital therapies – Group u Advantages u Self-help group – Family and Marital

Behavioral Therapies u Classical Conditioning – Counterconditioning – Mary Cover Jones – Systematic desensitization – Joseph Wolpe – Exposure techniques u Flooding – Aversion Therapy

Behavioral Therapies u Operant Conditioning – Target Behavior – Token Economy – Shaping – Aversion Therapy u Observational – Modeling Learning

Biomedical therapies u Psychopharmacology – Anti-anxiety drugs u Boost u GABA Valium, Xanax – Anti-psychotic drugs u Block dopamine activity Haldol, Clozaril u Thorazine – Tardive Dyskinesia u – Mood Stabilizers u Lithium, Depakote – Anti-depressants u SSRI’s (Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) – Keep serotonin active in the synapse u Tofranil, Nardil, Prozac, Buspar, Effexor

Biomedical therapies u Electroconvulsive u Psychosurgery Therapy (ECT)