Treatments may include:• Psychodynamic:• Goal: Help people understand why they're distressed• How: • focus on common themes across relationship and time• Most effective with depressed clients• Clients who are chronic best treatment, longest treatment• Client-centered:• Carl Rogers• Goal: enhance self-fulfillment and self-awareness• How: • create a growth-nurturing environment• active listening • Paraphrase, clarify, reflect• unconditional positive regard• Often used along with other therapies• Motivational Interviewing• Dr. Miller- pre-therapy approach• Behavioral:• Goal: Eliminate problem behaviors by replacing them with constructive behaviors• How:• Classical conditioning (counter-conditioning)• Systematic Desensitization• Cognitive:• Goal: teach new, constructive ways of thinking• How: • Reframing • Cognitive-Behavioral (CBT)• Goal: alter way people think and modify behavior• How:• Make aware of negative, problem thinking• Integrate new ways of thinking with behavioral modification techniques• Most common therapy• Useful for disorders as well as everyday-type of problemsDrug Therapy:• Antipsychotic drugs:• Dampen responses to irrelevant stimuli• Used to treat positive symptoms of schizophrenia• Not very effective for negative symptoms• Antianxiety drugs:• Depress neural system activity• Antidepressants:• Alter availability of neurotransmitters (e.g., serotonin• Used to treat depression and anxiety disorders• Mood Stabilizers:• Used to control and stabilize bood• Used to treat Bipolar
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