Psychology Video #22: Psychotherapy

Psycho dynamic or psychoanalytical therapy which sees all behavior as driven or motivated by powerful _______.

Inner forces

One of the most radical treatments of biomedical approach has been _______.

Psycho surgery

There are almost as many varieties of therapies as there are mental disorders....... over _______.

250

Valium is taken by over _______ million Americans.

8

Professional treatment for mental illness is available from a wide range of health specialist clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychological _______, psychiatrically trained _______.

Counselors; Social workers

The forces of mental illness are found in early life traumas; conflict, frustrations, _______, and unresolved _______.

Deprivations, Traumas

This approach is based on the premise that certain mental disorders are _______, and that treatment must be _______ based to eradicate them.

Diseases; Biologically

The real revolution in biomedical treatment has been the use of _______.

Drugs

Another controversial biomedical treatment is _______ therapy.

Electrocompulsive

Cognitive therapy (1960's) teach clients how to recognize and change unreasonable attitudes, false beliefs, and expectations of _______.

Failures

If chemotherapy was the last great revolution in biomedical therapy, _______ may be the next one.

Genetics

The most well known is the prefrontal _______. It is no longer used except in extreme cases where no other treatment has helped.

Lobotomy

Another anti psychotic drug, lithium, regulates the extreme mood swings of _______ disorders, while anti anxiety drugs _______ and tranquilize patients.

Maniac depression (Anxiety); Relax

Misuses of ECT has been criticized because of _______ loss in some patients.

Memory

Biomedical therapy focuses on changing some aspect of our _______.

Physical function

Behavior modification therapy is _______.

RET

Cognitive therapy is known by Albert Ellis as _______.

Rational emotive therapy

Psychotherapists help by _______ these motivations and work in ways to help in _______ them.

Recognizing; Changing

Chlorpromazine was the first miracle drug that worked on many of the symptoms found in _______ patients.

Schizophrenic

Shock therapy as it's known, has been held for its effectiveness as the most powerful antidepressant treatment available for patients who cannot _______.

Tolerate drugs.