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