Treating Mental Disorders

What Qualities Do You Want In A Therapist?

What makes a good therapist?

good listener empathy-warmth and understanding psychologically healthy experience in dealing with people trustworthy

What is the best form of therapy?

Psychotherapy
used either alone or in combination with medications to treat mental illnesses. Called "therapy" involves a variety of treatment techniques. Talk is the principal characteristic

Formats
Individual: . Group: . Marital/couples . Family:

Categories
Eclectic Psychoanalytic Client Centered (Humanistic) Cognitive RET Behavioral Gestalt

Eclectic approach
Choose from different types of therapy and choose the best one for the case
persons behavior is based on choice- not fixed people must understand their problemwhere the problem comes from help patients find alternatives to unsatisfactory behaviors

belief or hope that they can change placebo effect-sugar pill-demonstrates persons attitudes

Psychoanalytic
Emphasizes emotions and argues that psychological disorders arise from childhood problems and unconscious conflict Follow Freud To be a psychologist under this you must be psychoanalyzed for 3-5 years expensive

Psychoanalytical continued
psychological disturbances are due to hidden conflict anxiety in unconscious personality Psychoanalysts-make persons aware of their feelings- INSIGHT

Psychoanalytical Concepts
Free Association Dream analysis Transference

Concepts . . .
Free association- relax and talk about anything that comes to mind Resistance- behavior that impedes the course of therapy Transference-when patient begins to feel to the psychologist as they had to another person Becomes aware of real feelings and motivations

Benefits and Criticisms

Benefits
empathetic and nonjudgmental environment simply sharing these burdens with another person can have a beneficial influence.

criticisms
time consuming, Expensive generally ineffective,

Humanistic
Focuses on emotions but argues that psychological disorders are created when an individuals full development has been blocked Help them to see their own potential

Humanistic Approaches
Rogers Client Centered Therapy
Congruence Unconditional positive regard Empathic understanding Active listening Therapist mirrors encourages

equal relationships between therapist and client avoid giving opinions to the clients

Gestalt Therapy
emphasizes treatment of the person as a whole, including a person's biological components and their organic functioning, perceptions, and interrelationships with the external world. training in awareness, in improving the individual's contact with himself

Behavioral Therapy
Emphasizes behaviors and proposes that psychological disorders can be traced to inappropriate learning

Behavioral Techniques
Systematic Desensitization Behavior modification Aversion Therapy

 what is immediately wrong and fix it

Cognitive Therapy
Emphasizes thought processes, tracing psychological disorders to maladaptive thinking

Cognitive Approaches
Rationale Emotive Therapy
Examine thoughts rationally and to make positive statements about self

Becks Cognitive therapy

Attack cognitive distortions Attacking taking ideas out of context Attacking negative thoughts

 uses persuasion and logic to change beliefs encourages clients to test their own beliefs

Other Approaches
Group Therapy Family Therapy

Benefits of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive and behavioral approaches can be highly effective when treating specific problems. cognitive and behavioral approaches are combined when treating a disorder social anxiety may help the client form more accurate thinking patterns as well as focusing on specific behaviors, such as social avoidance.

Biological/Medical Treatments
Drug Therapies
Anti-anxiety Anti-depressant Lithium Anti-psychotic

ECT Lobotomies