PSY
Waxy flexability
Associated with catatonic schizophrenia,leads to a decreased response to stimuli and a tendency to remain in an immobile posture
Thomas Szas
Believes principles that each person has the right to bodily and mental self-ownership and the right to be free from violence from others
Behavioral Therapy
Changing overt behavior, classical and operate conditioning, social skills training: To change maladaptive behaviors. using rewards or other consequences to make the changes
General symptom of Schizophrenia
Delusions: false belifes, out of touch with reality. Hallucinations: sensory precepitations Hearing noises, seeing people, disturbed emotions Flat affect: failure to show emotional response inapproptiate responding
Anxiety drugs
Diazepam, Valium, Zanax, Buspar: reduce tension and nervousness. Affects the GABA receptor
Cognitive therapy
Emphasizes recognizing and changing negative thoughts and beliefs
Electra
Female: fantasy to be seduced by dad, imaginary pregnancy
Psychoanalysis
Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
Biomedical Thrapy
Intervention, drugs, pharmacy
Mood stiumulizer
Lithium
Oedipal
Male: Kill your dad, make love to mom
Freud's Dream
Manifest Content: dream at surface level, Sees Egyptian dudes with heads like birds carrying his grandma which changes to his dead mom Latent Content: hidden meaning of the dream, German phrase in which "birding" means sex, Bird heads on Egyptians, Sees mother as prospective sex partner and wants father dead
4 Types of Schizophrenia
Paranoid: delusions Catatonic: motor disturbances Disorganized: social withdrawel Undifferentiated: not fitting in
Learned Helplessness
Passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable bad events
Albert Ellis
Rational emotive therapy, change the way clients think, changing the way we think about things will affect the way we feel and the way we behave.
Anti psycotic drugs
THorazine, Mellaril, Haldol: reduce hyperactivity, hallucinations, and delusions, Blocks dopamine receptors
Validity
The ability of a test to measure what is was designed to measure
Anti depressant drugs
Uniporlar: Fluoxetine (prozac) blocks the repute of SE Bipolar: Lithium carbonate. Enchances NE reputake
desensitization
a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety, reduce phobic reactions through consoling, teaches to relax
TAT: thematic Apperception Test
an individual views ambiguous scenes of people, and is asked to describe various aspects of the scene; PROJECTIVE TEST
Dissociative disorders
conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity and/or perception
Hans Strupp
focuses on disturbances in past interpersonal relationships and interactions with present therapist
Herman Rorschach
ink blots and shapes what do you see PROJECTIVE TEST
Manifest/ Latent
manifest content of a dream includes the actual images, thoughts and content contained within the dream. The manifest content is the elements of the dream that we remember upon awakening. latent content of a dream is the hidden psychological meaning of the dream.
freud's dream
manifest content(surface level)- mother dying, latent content(hidden meaning)- wanted father dead had love for mother
Psychoanalysis
recovery of unconscious conflicts and motives, attempt to explain signifigance of clients thoughts and behavior
Draw a person test
results are based on a psychodynamic interpretation of the details of the drawing. PROJECTIVE TEST
Insight Therapy
talk thearpy, discuss problems with therapist