Topic 8: Treatment Maintenance Therapy and Side effects
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- Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (CBT)One of the most common applications of CBT is intreatment of phobias, where person is encouraged togradually face the fear and eventually feeling relaxed andcomfortable while dealing with it.
- Cognitive or Behavioral Therapies:
- Indicated for treatment of mild to moderate depression, somato form disorders, and eating disorders
- Patient is helped for 15-25 weeks to identify distorted and negative thoughts about one’s self.
- Patient is helped to replace these negative thoughts with positive, self-assuring thoughts and symptoms to improve.
- Group Therapy
- Group with therapists
- The group usually meets for 1-2 hours weekly.
- Members of the group are provided with opportunity to express feelings.They act as feedback, support, and friendship to each other.
- Leaderless groups
- No one person is in authority.
- Members provide each other with support and practical help.
- Twelve-step groups like Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and Overeaters Anonymous (OA) are based on the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) leaderless group model.
- Family therapy
- Specific techniques used: Mutual accommodation process in which family members work toward meeting each other’s needs. Normalizing boundaries: between subsystems and reducing the likelihood ofdysfunctional alliances between two family members against a third member. Redefining “blame”: for example, members are encouraged to reconsider their ownresponsibility for problems.
- Supportive and Interpersonal Therapy
- Aims to help people feel protected and supported during life crises
- Interpersonal therapy aims to develop interpersonal skills in 12-16 weekly sessions. It is based on the idea that psychiatric problems like anxiety anddepression are based on difficulties in dealing with others.
- Anxiolytics like Valium are addictive and if used for toolong can do things like:
- make you depressed or paranoid
- change your personality
- give you headaches and nausea
- make you gain weight
- damage your memory
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)Deep brain stimulation (DBS), vagus nerve stimulation(VNS), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) are a few of the newer therapies being used to treat somemental disorders.