AP LESSON 4

• Idiographic data


  Specific details and background, specific or unique information
• Nomothetic


  Broad information, nature, and treatment, generalization or commonalities with another context
• Treatment


  Also known as therapy, procedure designed to change abnormal behavior to a more normal behavior, consists of client, therapies, and series of contact between them
• Psychodynamic: Free Association


  Therapist tells the patient to describe any thought, feeling, or image that comes to mind even if it seems unimportant
• Psychodynamic: Transference


  They act and feel toward the therapist as they did toward important person in their lives
• Psychodynamic: Resistance


  Unconscious refusal to participate fully in the therapy
• Psychodynamic: Dreams Interpretation


  1. Can reveal unconscious instincts, needs, and wishes

  2. Manifest: consciously remembered dream

  3. Latent: meaning
• Psychodynamic: Catharsis


  Reliving past repressed feelings
• Psychodynamic: Working Through


  Patient and therapist must examine the same issues over and over in the course of many sessions
• Psychodynamic: Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapies


  Patient choose a single problem, a dynamic focus to work on and work only on the psychodynamic issues that relate to it
• Psychodynamic: Relational Psychoanalytic Therapy


  Therapist disclosing things about themselves, particularly their own reactions to patients, and try to establish more equal relationships with patients
• Hypnotherapy


  Patient undergoes hypnosis and is then guided to recall forgotten events or perform other therapeutic activities
• Play therapy


  An approach to treating childhood disorders that helps children express their conflicts and feelings indirectly by drawing, playing, and making stories
• Humanistic: Client-centered therapy


  Clinicians try to help clients by accepting, empathizing accurately, and conveying genuineness (Carl Rogers)
• Humanistic: Support group


  Home-based self-help programs, Social skills training, Family therapy, Group therapy
• Humanistic: Psychological debriefing


  Form of crisis intervention in which victims are helped to talk their feelings and reactions to traumatic experiences, Critical incident stress debriefing
• Humanistic: Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT)

  Treatment for depression that based on belief that clarifying and changing one's interpersonal problems will help lead to recovery
• Humanistic: Motivational interviewing


  Use mixture of empathy and inquiring review to motivate clients to recognize they have serious psychological problem and to commit to making constructive choices and behavior changes
• Humanistic: Milieu therapy


  Institutions can help patients recover by creating a climate that promotes self-respect, individual responsible behavior, and meaningful activity
• Humanistic: Parent management training


  Combine family and cognitive-behavioral interventions to improve family functioning and help parents with their children more effectively
• Humanistic: Gestalt therapy


  Clinicians actively move clients toward self-recognition and self-acceptance by using techniques such as role playing and self-discovery exercises
• Cognitive: Cognitive-behavioral therapy


  Seek to help clients change both counterproductive behaviors and dysfunctional ways of thinking, Rational-emotive behavioral therapy, Mindfulness-based CBT (acceptance and commitment therapy)
• Behavioral: Behavioral Activation


  Therapy for depression in which client is guided systematically increase the number of constructive and pleasurable activities and events in his or her life
• Behavioral: Cognitive Remediation


  Focuses on the cognitive impairments that often characterize people with schizophrenia, particularly their difficulties in attention, planning, and memory, Hallucination reinterpretation and acceptance
• Behavioral: Neutralizing


  Attempting to eliminate thoughts that one finds unacceptable by thinking or behaving in ways that make up for those thoughts and so put right internally
• Behavioral: Exposure and response (ritual) prevention

  Treatment of OCD that exposes client to anxiety-arousing thoughts or situations and then prevents the client from performing his or her compulsive acts
• Behavioral: Beck's cognitive therapy


  People identify and change the maladaptive assumptions and ways of thinking that help cause their psychological disorders
• Behavioral: Aversion therapy


  Client are repeatedly presented with unpleasant stimuli while performing undesirable behavior such as taking drug
• Behavioral: Relapse-prevention training


  Treatment for alcohol use disorder in which clients are taught to keep track of their drinking behavior, apply coping strategies in situation that typically trigger excessive drinking, and plan ahead for risky situations and reactions
• Behavioral: Cognitive processing therapy


  Intervention for people with PTSD in which therapist guide individuals to examine and change the dysfunctional attitudes and styles of interpretation they have developed as a result of their traumatic experiences, thus, enabling them to deal with difficult memories and feelings
• Biological: Sedative-hypnotic drugs


  Also called as anxiolytic, produce feelings of relaxation and drowsiness, Benzodiazepines: Sedative that slow down body and brain's function (depressant), Barbiturates: Medication that causes relaxation and sedation (depressant)
• Biological: Antidepressant


  Improve the mood of people with depression, Increase the activity of serotonin and norepinephrine
• Biological: Antipsychotic


  Correct grossly confused or distorted thinking, Relieve anxiety by altering the activity of dopamine
• Biological: Vagus nerve stimulation


  Treatment for depression in which implanted pulse generator sends regular electrical signals to a person's Vagus nerve, then stimulates the brain
• Biological: Electroconvulsive therapy


  Electrodes attached to patient's head and send an electrical current through the brain, causing seizure
• Biological: Transcranial magnetic stimulation

  Electromagnetic coil, which placed on or above a person's head sends a current into the person's brain
• Biological: Mood stabilizers


  Stabilize the moods of people suffering from bipolar disorder, Also known as antibipolar drugs, Lithium: metallic element that occurs in nature as mineral salt and is an effective treatment for bipolar disorders
• Biological: Detoxification


  Systematic and medically supervised withdrawal from a drug
• Biological: Antagonist drug


  Block or change the effects of an addictive drug
• Biological: Antianxiety


  Also called as minor tranquilizers, help in reducing tension and anxiety