Treatments & Drugs

• 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