Unit 12: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Date
4/1
4/2
4/3
4/4
4/5
4/8
Topic
Introduction to Therapy; Insight Therapies
Cognitive, Behavioral, and CognitiveBehavioral Therapies
Biomedical Treatments; Practice
Which Treatment? Effectiveness of
Treatment
Deinstitutionalization; Prevention
Test (MC + short FRQ)
Assignment
Review: 425-430
431-435
436-437 & 441-446
440; 438-439
446-452
Unit Objectives
1. Define psychotherapy and list major types of psychotherapy (insight, cognitive, behavioral,
cognitive-behavioral).
2. Describe the process of psychoanalysis including the processes of free association,
resistance, transference, and interpretation.
3. Describe how neo-Freudians have altered the original psychoanalysis process to create shortterm psychodynamic therapy.
4. Describe the underlying beliefs and processes of client-centered therapy.
5. Describe major forms of behavioral therapy (aversive conditioning, systematic
desensitization, flooding, operant principles, modeling).
6. Differentiate between major cognitive therapies including Becks’, rational-emotive, and
stress-inoculation.
7. Describe the goals of cognitive-behavioral therapy.
8. Describe the benefits of group therapy.
9. Describe the purpose and benefits of family therapy.
10. Identify which treatments are commonly used to treat specific disorders.
11. Evaluate the effectiveness of psychotherapy.
12. Describe the major types of biomedical treatment (drug therapies, psychosurgery, ECT, etc.)
13. Describe how antipsychotic, antidepressant, and antianxiety medications affect the
biochemistry of the brain.
14. Identify the prescription/trademark names for the drugs in the aforementioned categories.
15. Describe the benefits and drawbacks to antipsychotic drugs.
16. Describe the effects of deinstitutionalization.
17. Describe prevention on the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels.
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Names
Psychotherapy
Insight therapies
Psychoanalysis
Free Association
Resistance
Interpretation
Transference
Short-term psychodynamic therapy
Eclectic Approach
Client-Centered Therapy
Active listening
Behavior Therapy: Systematic
Desensitization, Flooding , Aversive
Conditioning
Cognitive Therapies: Becks’ Therapy,
Stress-Inoculation Therapy, RationalEmotive Therapy
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Family Therapy
Group Therapy
Biomedical therapy/Biological
Treatments
Antipsychotic drugs
Tardive dyskinesia
Antianxiety drugs
Antidepressants
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Psychosurgery/Neurosurgery
Deinstitutionalization
Prevention: Primary, Secondary, and
Tertiary Prevention
Designated Review Unit: Unit 6 – Cognition
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Aaron Beck
Albert Ellis
Sigmund Freud
Mary Cover Jones
Carl Rogers
Joseph Wolpe