Treatments & Drugs

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  • Anti-Anxiety Drugs: Help reduce the symptoms of anxiety
    • Benzodiazepines
    • SSRIs
    • SNRIs
    • TCAs
  • Anti-Psychotic Drugs: A type of psychiatric medication which are available on rescription to treat psychosis
    • Risperdal
    • Seroquel
    • Abilify
    • Clozaril
    • Zyprexa
  • Anti-Depressant Drugs: Psychiatric drugs which are licensed to treat depression
    • Fluoxetine
    • Paroxetine
    • SSRIs
  • Aversive Conditioning: Classcial conditioning in which an unwanted behavior is targeted by pairing it with a negative stimulus in an attempt to reduce unwanted behavior
    • Ex. Electric shocks to keep someone from doing something (like drinking alcohol)
  • Behavioral Therapy: Range of treatments and techniques which are used to change an individuals maladaptive responses to specific situations
    • Ex. Someone who is afraid of dogs can gradually expose themselves to dogs
  • Biopsychosocial Method: Looking at psychological, biological, and social factors to determine human behavior
    • Ex. Someone with depression and liver problems, because of their depression they could abuse alcohol causing them to have liver damage
  • Client-Centered Therapy/Humanist Method: The client is inherently driven toward and has the capacity for self-growth
    • Non-judgemental therapy for the client to self-explore
  • Cognitive Therapy: Studying internal mental processes such as attention, perception, memory, and decision-making
  • Confidentiality: Professional ethics requiring providers of mental health care to limit the diclosure of a patient's identity
    • They can break this if they feel the client is a harm to others or themselves
  • Conversion Disorder: Where a mental health issue disrupts how your brain works
    • Ex. Weakness or paralysis
  • Counterconditoning: A technique developed by psychologists that is intended to change how we percieve certain stimuli
    • Someone who hates public speaking starts associating public speaking with positive experiences
  • Deinstitutionalization: Replacement of long-stay psychiatric hospitals with smaller, less isolated community-based alternatives for the care of mentally ill people
  • Diathesis Stress-Model: Mental disorders develope from a genetic or biological predisposition
  • Dopamine Hypothesis: Hyperactive dopamine transmission results in schizophrenic symptoms
    • Formed by Arvid Carlsson
  • DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders formed by 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health
  • Eclectic Approach: Type of therapy tailored to fit the exact needs of the individual seeking treatment
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy: Involves sending an electric current through your brain
  • Exposure therapies: Gradually exposing someone to things that they fear
  • Family Therapy: Helps family members better understand eachother
  • Group Therapy: The treatment of multiple parents at once by one or more healthcare providers
  • Light Exposure Therapy: Exposure to an artificial light source
    • Used to treat major depressive disorder
  • Lithium Salts: Used as psychiatric medication, primarily for bipolar disorder and for major depressive disorder
    • Side effects include: vomiting, severe hand tremors, confusion, and vision changes
  • Lobotomy: Surgical procedure that involves severing the nerve pathways in the prefrontal cortex
    • People literally become zombies from this
    • Side Effects: decreased depth of emotion, lock of initiative and poor ability to concentrate
  • Psychiatry: Branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders
  • Psychoanalytic Method: Revolves around the belief that everyone has unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories
    • Theories founded by Sigmund Freud
  • Psychopharmacology: A field of which analyzes the pacts of different drugs on the mental health of patients
  • Psychosurgery: Treatment of psychiatric diroders by means of cerebral neurosurgery
  • Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS): This coil delivers magnetic impulses that stimulate nerve cells in the region of your brain that onvolves mood control
  • Sociocultural Method: Your behaviors and symptoms are based of your culture and background