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- clinical social worker
- social worker involved in mental disorders
- pastoral counselor
- spiritual guidance and practical counseling
- history of treatment
- Medieval Europe disorder the work of devils and demons
- Now treatment
- mentally ill placed in asylums
- psychological therapy
- called pscyhotherapy
- biomedical therapy
- underlying biology of the brain
- insight therapies
- reveal and change patient\'s disturbed mental process thru discussion and interpretation
- psychoanalysis
- access to unconscious material thru free association; help the patient understand the unconscious causes for symptoms; ego blocks unconscious problems from consciousness thru defense mechanisms
- psychodynamic therapy
- (embraced sum of Freud\'s ideas, but disagreed w/others); treat patients face to face, see patients once a week, shift to conscious motivation
- humanistic therapy
- assume that ppl have a tendency for personal growth and self actualization, which may be blocked by an unhealthy environment
- cognitive therapy
- emphasizes ration thinking as the key to treating mental disorder; helps patients confront the destructive thoughts
- group therapy
- psychotherapy w/more than one client; groups that provide social support; get to share ideas bout dealing w/common problems
- behavior therapy
- based on principles of behavior learning, such as opperant and classical conditioning
- differ types of behavior therapies
- systematic desensitization, aversion therapy, contingency management, token economies, particpant modeling
- cognitive-behavior therapy
- combines cognitive emphasis on thought w/behavioral strategies that alter reinforcement contingencies; assumes irrational self-statements cause maladaptive behavior\' seeks to help the client develop a sense of self efficacy
- REBT
- irrational thoughts and behaviors are the cause disorders; attempting to eliminate the self defeating thoughts
- effectiveness of psychotherapy
- not better than any therapy; match specific therapies w/specific conditions
- drug therapy
- help w/issues w/o normal therapy due to possible severity
- antipsychotic
- affect dopamine pathways
- antidepressants
- medicines that treat depression usually by their effects on the serotonin and or nonrepinephrine pathways in the brain
- Antianxiety
- includes barbiturates and benzodiazepines; diminish feelings of anxiety
- Stimulants
- produces excitemnt or hyperactivity
- pscyhosurgery
- surgical intervention in the brain to treat psychological disorders
- ECT
- applies electric current to temples briefly; memory deficits
- TCM
- High powered magnetic stimulation to the brain; can be effective for bipolar disorder
- therapeutic community
- deisned to bring meaning to patients\' lives; hopital setting to help patients cope w/the world outside
- Problems w/deinstitutionalization
- ppl mite not be fixed before releasing
- Community Mental Health Movement
- An effort to deinstiutionalize mental patients and to provide therapy from outpatient clinics; let ppl live w/their fams or foster homes, etc
- psychological disorders
- interaction of biological, cognitive, social, and behavioral factors or a disorder
- Medical Model
- mental disorders are diseases that have objective physical causes and require specific treatments
- Cognitive model
- abnormal behaviors are influenced by mental processes(how ppl perceive themselves and their relations)
- behavioral model
- abnormal behaviors can be acquired thru behavioral learning(operant and classical conditioning)
- indicators of abnormal behavior
- 1. distress: unusual or prolonged levels of unease or anxiety? 2. Maladaptiveness: make others fearful or interfere w/his or her well being 3. Irrationability: irrational or incomprehensible actions or talking 4. Unpredicability: erratical and inconsistent behavior(loss of control?) 5. Unconventionality and undesirable behavior: violate social norms
- DSM system
- classifies disorders by their mental and behavioral symptoms; 300 disorders