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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
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
• PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPIES
– focus on uncovering the unconscious
motives and concerns behind
psychopathology through free association
and the analysis of transference and
dreams
• HUMANISTIC THERAPY
– 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.
• BEHAVIOR THERAPY
– 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
• COGNITIVE THERAPY
– focus on changing the maladaptive
cognitions behind distressing feelings and
behaviors.
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.
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.
INTERPERSONAL THERAPY
– is a short-term therapy that focuses on
client’s current relationships and concerns
but explores the roots of their problems in
the past.
FAMILY SYSTEM THERAPY
– focus on changing maladaptive patterns
of behavior within the family systems to
reduce psychopathology in individual
members.
GROUP THERAPY
– people who share a problem come
together to support each other, learn from
each other, and practice new skills.
COMMUNITY TREATMENT-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.
-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.
-Day treatment centers allow people to obtain treatment all day, as well as occupational and rehabilitative therapies, but to live at home at night.
COMMUNITY PREVENTION PROGRAMS
•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.