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Ch 16 trtmt psy ds 2
Treatment of psychological disorders
Question | Answer |
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Modeling | Demonstrating desirable behaviors as a way of teaching them to clients |
Modeling -2 | Clients watch the therapist or others perform desirable behaviors, thus learing skills second handed without going through a lenghly shaping process |
Modeling - 3 | Modeling can teach a client on how to respond fearlessly while vicariously extinguishing conditioned fear response |
Assertiveness Training | Methods for teaching clients how to interact with others more comfortably and effectively |
Asserctive Training - 2 | Therapist help clients learn to be more direct and expressive in social situations |
Assertivness Training - 3 | Not require aggressiveness; involves clearly and directly expression both + and - feelings and standing up for one's own rights while respecting the rights of others |
Assertiveness Training - 4 | Often conducted in groups and involves both modeling and role playing of specific situations |
Social Skills Training | Methods for teaching clients how to interact with others more comfortably and effectively |
Social Skills Training - 2 | Goals is to range from helping social-phobic singles make conversation on dates to rebuilding the ablities of as mental patient to interact normally with people outside of the hopsital |
Positive Reinforcement | a therapy method that uses rewards to strengthen desirable behaviors |
Positive Reinforcement - 2 | using operant conditioning they set rules that specifly the behaviors to be strengthened through reinforcement |
Token Economy | A systen for improving the behavior of an institutionalized clients in which desirable behaviors are rewarded with tokens that can be exchanged for desired item or activities |
Token Economy - 2 | The goal is to shape behavior patterns that will persist outside of the institution |
Extinction | Gradual disappearance of a conditioned response or operant behavior through nonreinforcement |
Extinction - 2 | Change is rather slow, but it has been popular way of treating children and retarted or disturbed adults because it provides a gentle way to eliminate undesirable behaviors |
Flooding | a proceedure for reducing anxiety that involves keeping a person in a feared, but harmless, situation |
Flooding - 2 | Exposing a person to stimuli without have the person go through pain, injury, or any other averise unconditioned stimuli |
Aversion Conditioned | A method that uses classical conditioning to create a negative response to a particular stimulus |
Aversion Conditioned - 2 | method used rarely, only when best treatment choice; only long enought to allow the client to learn more desirable alternative behavior |
Punishment | a therapy method that weakens undesirable behavior by following it with an unpleasant stimulus |
Punishment - 2 | Operant Conditioning technique |
cognitive-behavioral therapy | |
rational-emotional behavior therapy | A treatment designed to identify and change self-defeating thoughts that lead to anxiety and other symptoms of disorder |
Albert Ellis | |
Cognitive therapy | a treatment in which the therapist helps clients to notice and change negative thoughts associated with anxiety and depression |
Aaron Beck | |
Group Therapy | Psychotherapy involving several unrelated clients |
Family Therapy | Treatment of two or more indiviuals from the same family |
Couples Therapy | a for of therapy focusing on improving communication between partners |
Empirically Supported Therapy | Treatments who effects have been validated by emotional controlled experimental research |
Biological treatments | |
ECT (Electroconvulsive therapy) | brief electrical shock administered to the brain, usually to reduce depression that doesnt responed to drug therapy |
Psychosurgery | surgical proceedures that destroy tissue in small regions of the brain in an effort to treat psychological disorders |
neuroleptics | that alliviate the symptoms of severe disorder such as schizophernia |
tardive dyskinesia | |
anxioltics (tranquilizers) | drugs that reduce feelings of anxiety |
community psychology | a movement to minimize or prevent psychologiacl disorders through changes in social systems and through community mental health programs |
antidepressants | drugs that relieve depression |