Chapter 17: Therapy

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Chapter 17 Therapy

• Overview of Modern Therapy

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Introduction and Overview

• Definition of psychological treatment
• Brief history of treatment
• Modern Therapy
• Models
• Types

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Brief history of treatment

• Prior to 1700s
• Cause of mental illness was possession by evil
  spirits or imbalance of body chemicals
• Treatment included trephining, bleeding, or
  torture.

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History of Treatment
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Pre-scientific treatment
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History of Treatment
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Pre-scientific treatment
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Brief history of treatment

• Prior to 1700s
• Cause of mental illness was possession by evil
  spirits or imbalance of body chemicals
• Treatment included trephining, bleeding, or
  torture.
• 1700 1900
• People with psychological disorders are "madmen"
  who should be caged in order to protect society.
• Anyone undesirable - criminals, lepers, old
  people, and the mentally ill - was confined in
  asylums.
• Dungeons with horrible conditions.

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Reform Movement
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Reform Movement

• Philippe Pinel Dorothea Dix
• Called for improved treatment of the insane
• Worked to improve conditions In mental hospitals

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Trenton Mental Hospital Trenton, NJ
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Modern Therapy

• The Medical Model
• Madness is a mental illness that can be
  diagnosed, treated, and cured
• Has links to modern insights into genetic causes
  of disorders and modern biomedical treatments

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Modern Therapy

• The Bio-Psycho-Social Model
• Behavior is the result of interaction between
  nature and nurture
• To attribute a disorder to illness is to say
  that the cause is purely internal

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Modern Therapy

• Two approaches
• Psychotherapy
• A trained therapist uses psychological techniques
  to assist someone seeking to overcome
  difficulties or achieve personal growth
• Biomedical Therapy
• A prescribed medication or medical procedure that
  acts directly on the patients nervous system

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Modern Therapy

• Psychotherapies
• Over 250 types of psychotherapies exist
• The most influential
• Psychoanalysis
• Humanistic Therapy
• Cognitive Therapy
• Behavior Therapy

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Modern Therapy

• Biomedical Treatments
• Drug Therapy
• Electro-convulsive shock therapy
• Psychosurgery

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Modern Therapy