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Chapter 12: Therapies


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Chapter 12: Therapies

  1. The Nature of Therapy
    1. Historical Viewpoint
      1. Trephining
      2. Exorcism
      3. Asylums
    2. Contemporary Practice
      1. Orientations
        1. insight therapy
        2. action therapy
        3. eclectic
      2. Practitioners and settings
      3. Access to services
      4. Ethical standards
  2. Individual Therapies
    1. Psychodynamic Therapies
      1. Freud's Psychoanalysis
        1. free association
        2. catharsis
        3. dream analysis
          1. manifest content
          2. latent content
        4. transference
        5. resistance
        6. psychopathology of everyday life
      2. Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapies
    2. Humanistic Therapies
      1. Person-centered therapies
        1. genuineness
        2. accurate empathy
        3. active listening
      2. Gestalt therapy
    3. Behavior Therapies
      1. Classical conditioning approaches
        1. systematic desensitization
        2. aversive conditioning
      2. Operant conditioning approaches
        1. behavior modification
        2. token economy
      3. Cognitive behavior therapies
    4. Cognitive Therapies
      1. Ellis' Rational-Emotive Therapy
      2. Beck's Cognitive Therapy
  3. Systems Interventions
    1. Group Therapies
      1. Family and Couple Therapy
      2. Personal Growth Groups
      3. Self-help groups
    2. Community Psychology
      1. Primary Prevention
      2. Secondary Prevention
      3. Tertiary Prevention
  4. Is Psychotherapy Effective?
    1. Outcome Research on Effectiveness of Psychotherapy
    2. Common Themes and Specificity in Psychotherapy
    3. Gender Issues in Treatment Effectiveness
    4. Ethnicity and Social Class Issues in Treatment Effectiveness
  5. Biomedical Therapies
    1. Drug Therapy
      1. Antianxiety Drugs
      2. Antidepressant drugs
        1. tryclics
        2. SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors)
        3. MAO (monoamine oxidase) inhibitors
        4. Lithium
      3. Antipsychotic drugs
    2. Electroconvulsive Therapy
    3. Psychosurgery
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