1. Chapter 18 Treatment

2. The Effect of Drug Treatment on Hospitalization for Mental Illness The introduction of chlorpromazine in the 1950s led to deinstitutionalization. Psychoactive drugs became an important component of modern health care.

3. Who Does Psychotherapy? Psychologists and psychiatrists tend to see more patients with Axis I disorders. Counselors and social workers tend to see more people with "adjustment of living" problems.

4. Freudian Psychoanalytic Processes Free Association - the patient describes whatever comes to mind, including thoughts, images, and dreams Resistance - behaviors a patient engages in to delay the therapeutic process Transference - a patient redirects to the therapist emotions experienced with significant others in childhood

5. Systematic Desensitization Confront a patient with a series of realistic models of a phobic stimulus Allowing the fear to extinguish at each stage slowly reduces the patient's fear

7. Aversion Therapy The taste of alcohol can be made aversive through classical conditioning

8. Biofeedback Therapy Biofeedback provides clients with information about the status of normally unconscious physiological systems Types of biofeedback - electromyograms and thermal feedback Treatment of choice for stress-related disorders, including migraine and tension headaches, low back pain, and hypertension

9. Albert Ellis's Rational-Emotive Therapy Irrational thoughts and beliefs emotional responses

10. Aaron Beck's Cognitive Therapy Negative Cognitive Triad of Depression depressed person’s perception personally inadequate without hope social and occupational failures

11. Carl Rogers's Person-Centered Therapy The main source of a client's anxiety is the discrepancy between the self-concept and the opinion of others. Clients explore this issue through nondirective therapy. self-conceptanxiety perceptions of others

12. Goals of Humanistic Therapy Increased awareness Increased self-acceptance Increased interpersonal comfort Increased cognitive flexibility Increased self-reliance Increased overall functioning

13. Gestalt Therapy Restoration of holistic functioning of the self Keep the patient in the "here and now” Client is always "on the hot seat”

14. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Eating Disorders Stage 1 (eight weeks) –Patient attends twice-weekly educational session on long-term health hazards of the disorder and goals for treatment –Patient fulfills behavioral measures Eats 3 to 4 meals plus 1 or 2 snacks daily Keeps a food journal Participates in weigh-ins Stage 2 (eight weeks) –Therapist subjects the client's thoughts and beliefs about body size and the control of eating to rational scrutiny –The client's rigidly prescribed eating patterns are relaxed Stage 3 –Patient develops insight and increased confidence in her ability to maintain healthy eating habits on her own

15. Exposure and Response Prevention in the Treatment of Eating Disorders StimulusResponseNegative Reinforcer Binge eatingVomitingrelieves anxiety associated with binge eating ERP Client is exposed to foods normally associated with vomiting, but is prevented from vomiting. Because the vomiting is not reinforced, this procedure eventally causes the response to extinguish. The bingeing behavior also decreases in frequency.

16. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Panic Disorders Panic Control Treatment (PCT) consists of: Cognitive restructuring Exposure to the breathing cues associated with panic attacks Retraining of breathing

17. Group Therapy Sensitivity training sessions Group systematic desensitization training Alcoholics Anonymous Self-help Support Groups

18. Evaluating Insight Therapies A cost-benefit analysis of the therapeutic gains over the course of insight therapy shows that most gains are made in the early sessions.

19. Medical Treatments of the 20 th Century Psychosurgery Electroconvulsive shock therapy Drug treatment

20. The Effects of Electroconvulsive Therapy to treat Severe Depression

21. The Use of Psychoactive Drugs, Prehistory to the Present