State Correct Terms of Treatment of Psychological Disorders Flashcards

Wide variety of treatments and ethical issues. summary of ch 15

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  1. for psychological disorders consists of treatment methods aimed at making people feel better and function more effectively.
  1. Therapy
  1. The two main types of therapy are ______, which consists of talking things out with a professional and ________, which consists of using biological methods such as medication to treat a psychological disorder.
  1. psychotherapy and biomedical therapy
  1. Psychotherapy techniques can be roughly divided into _______, which have the goal of self-understanding and _______, which focus on changing an individual’s behaviors.
  1. insight therapies and action therapies
  1. Biomedical therapies consist mainly of the use of what three?
  1. drugs, surgical techniques, or electroconvulsive therapy
  1. Early treatment of the mentally ill often consisted of fatal attempts to “___” the individual of the physical impurities causing the abnormal behavior.
  1. rid
  1. It was not until 1793 that who began the movement of humane treatment of the mentally ill?
  1. Philippe Pinel
  1. What is an insight therapy developed by Sigmund Freud with the goal of revealing the unconscious conflicts, urges, and desires that Freud assumed were the cause of the psychological disorder?
  1. Psychoanalysis
  1. Freud utilized a number of techniques in his attempt to reveal what?
  1. the unconscious
  1. __________ involved an analysis of the actual or _________ of a dream as well as the hidden or _________.
  1. Dream interpretation and manifest content and latent content
  1. Freud felt the ______ of dreams could reveal unconscious conflict.
  1. latent content
  1. In addition, Freud used ________, or allowing the patients to freely say whatever came to their mind, to uncover the repressed material; _______, in which the patient became unwilling to discuss a topic any further; and _______, in which the therapist became a symbol of a parental authority figure.
  1. free association, resistance, transference
  1. Today, psychoanalytic therapy is often referred to as __________ and is _______, places more emphasis on transference, and is usually much shorter than traditional psychoanalysis.
  1. psychodynamic therapy and is directive
  1. Individuals with what three are more likely to benefit from psychodynamic therapy than individuals with other types of disorders?
  1. anxiety, somatoform, or dissociative disorders
  1. Is also an insight therapy, but unlike psychoanalysis, humanistic therapy focuses on conscious experiences of emotion and an individual’s sense of self.
  1. Humanistic therapy
  1. The two most common humanistic therapies are what?
  1. person-centered therapy and Gestalt therapy