5. There are 4 groups of drug treatment:
1. Anti-psychotics
– help reduce unreal perceptual experiences,
unreal beliefs, and other symptoms of psychosis.
ex. Tharozine
Haldol
Clozaril
2. Anti-manias
- blockers to reduce mania
(agitation, excitement, grandiosity)
Lithium
anticonvulsants
Calcium channel blockers
6. 3. Anti-anxiety
– help reduce anxiety
(fearfulness, worry, tension)
ex. Benzodiazepines
Barbiturate
4. Anti-depressants
-helps reduce symptoms of depression.
(sadness, loss of appetite, sleep disturbances)
ex. Nembutal
Valium
14. – focus on uncovering the unconscious motives
and concerns behind psychopathology through
free association and the analysis of
transference and dreams
15. – Person centered therapy
– attempts to help clients find their own
answers to problems by supporting them and
reflecting back these concerns, so they can
self-reflect and self-actualization.
-best known therapy is the client-centered
therapy (CCT) by Carl Roger’s.
16. – focus on altering the reinforcements and punishments people
receive for maladaptive behavior. Behavior therapists also help
clients learn new behavioral skills.
-techniques for extinguishing unwanted behaviors:
systematic desensitization therapy
vivo exposure
explosive therapy/flooding
-techniques for extinguishing learning desirable behaviors:
token economy
response reshaping
social skills training
17. – focus on changing the maladaptive cognitions
behind distressing feelings and behaviors.
18. TYPE OF THERAPY
Psychodynamic Therapies
Humanistic Therapy
DESCRIPTION
Help client gain insight into
unconscious motives and conflicts,
through analysis of free associations,
resistances, dreams and transferences.
Help clients explore their own values
and potentials and fulfil their
potential more fully by providing a
warm and supportive relationship.
19. Behavior therapies
Cognitive Therapies
Help clients extinguish unwanted
behavior or teach clients new,
desired behaviors, with techniques
such as systematic desensitization
and response shaping.
Help client change maladaptive
thought patterns by challenging
irrational thoughts and learning new
skills.
21. – is a short-term therapy that focuses on
client’s current relationships and concerns but
explores the roots of their problems in the
past.
22. – focus on changing maladaptive patterns of
behavior within the family systems to reduce
psychopathology in individual members.
23. – people who share a problem come together
to support each other, learn from each other,
and practice new skills.
24. -community mental-health movement was officially launched in
1963 by president John Kennedy.
-community mental-health centers are intended to provide
mental-health care based in the community, often from teams of
social works, therapist and physicians.
25. -Halfway houses offers people with long term-mental-health
problems the opportunity to live in a structured, supportive
environment while they are trying to re-establish a job and
ties to a family and friends.
26. -Day treatment centers allow people to obtain treatment all
day, as well as occupational and rehabilitative therapies, but
to live at home at night.
27. •primary prevention programs- aimed to stop
the development of disorders before it starts.
•Secondary prevention programs –provides
treatment to people in the early stages of their
disorder s, in the hope of reducing the
development of the disorders.
