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Treatment of Psychological Disorders

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1 Treatment of Psychological Disorders

2 Psychoanalytical Free Association
Freudian technique of discovering the unconscious mind patient relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing

3 Humanistic Active Listening
Therapist listens without interpreting and does not direct the client (patient) to any particular insight

4 Behavioral Systematic Desensitization
Associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli; commonly used for phobias

5 Behavioral Aversive Conditioning
Purposefully associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior; commonly used to treat the sexual deviancy of child molesters (and alcoholism)

6 Cognitive Teach clients to think constructively
(example: avoid self-blame & overgeneralization to help w/ depression) Adopt optimistic explanatory style by recording day’s good events and the role the person played in each event

7 Biomedical Therapies Treatment of psych disorders that involve changing the brain’s functioning by using: prescribed drugs electroconvulsive therapy – a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient; used for major depressive disorder surgery (lobotomy) – cuts the nerves that connect the frontal lobes of the brain to the deeper emotional centers; was used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients

8 ECT

9 Lobotomy


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