TREATMENTS FOR

ABNORMALITYBY:

Ja Barrameda

Marie Fuerte

Melanie Kaales

Alwyn magdaong

PREVIEW:

Biological Treatments

Psychological Therapies

Interpersonal and Social Approaches

BIOLOGICAL TREATMENTS

By: Melanie Kaales

1. DRUG TREATMENT

There are 4 groups of drug treatment:

1. Anti-psychotics – help reduce unreal perceptual

experiences,

unreal beliefs, and other symptoms of psychosis.

ex. Tharozine

Haldol

Clozaril

2. Anti-manias- blockers to reduce mania

(agitation, excitement, grandiosity) Lithium anticonvulsants Calcium channel blockers

3. Anti-anxiety

– help reduce anxiety

(fearfulness, worry, tension)

ex. Benzodiazepines

Barbiturate

4. Anti-depressants-helps reduce symptoms of depression.(sadness, loss of appetite, sleep disturbances)

ex. Nembutal Valium

2. HERBAL MEDICINES Hypericum perforatum

Rauwolfia Serpentina

3. ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY

4. PSYCHOSURGERYIt all started from :

TREPENING

Prefrontal Lobotomy

5. REPETIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNET STIMULATION ( RTMS)

PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES

By: Marie Fuerte

• PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPIES

– focus on uncovering the unconscious

motives and concerns behind

psychopathology through free association

and the analysis of transference and

dreams

• HUMANISTIC THERAPY

– Person centered therapy

– attempts to help clients find their own answers to problems by supporting them and reflecting back these concerns, so they can self-reflect and self-actualization.

-best known therapy is the client-centered therapy (CCT) by Carl Roger’s.

• BEHAVIOR THERAPY

– focus on altering the reinforcements and punishments

people receive for maladaptive behavior. Behavior

therapists also help clients learn new behavioral skills.

-techniques for extinguishing unwanted behaviors:

systematic desensitization therapy

vivo exposure

explosive therapy/flooding

-techniques for extinguishing learning desirable behaviors:

token economy

response reshaping

social skills training

• COGNITIVE THERAPY

– focus on changing the maladaptive

cognitions behind distressing feelings and

behaviors.

TYPE OF THERAPY

Psychodynamic Therapies

Humanistic Therapy

DESCRIPTION

Help client gain insight into

unconscious motives and conflicts,

through analysis of free

associations, resistances, dreams

and transferences.

Help clients explore their own

values and potentials and fulfil

their potential more fully by

providing a warm and supportive

relationship.

Behavior therapies

Cognitive Therapies

Help clients extinguish

unwanted behavior or teach

clients new, desired behaviors,

with techniques such as

systematic desensitization and

response shaping.

Help client change maladaptive

thought patterns by challenging

irrational thoughts and learning

new skills.

INTERPERSONAL AND

SOCIAL APPROACHES

By: Ja Barrameda

Alwyn Magdaong

INTERPERSONAL THERAPY

– is a short-term therapy that focuses on

client’s current relationships and concerns

but explores the roots of their problems in

the past.

FAMILY SYSTEM THERAPY

– focus on changing maladaptive patterns

of behavior within the family systems to

reduce psychopathology in individual

members.

GROUP THERAPY

– people who share a problem come

together to support each other, learn from

each other, and practice new skills.

COMMUNITY TREATMENT-community mental-health movement was officially launched in 1963 by president John Kennedy.

-community mental-health centers are intended to provide mental-health care based in the community, often from teams of social works, therapist and physicians.

-Halfway houses offers people with long term-mental-health problems the opportunity to live in a structured, supportive environment while they are trying to re-establish a job and ties to a family and friends.

-Day treatment centers allow people to obtain treatment all day, as well as occupational and rehabilitative therapies, but to live at home at night.

COMMUNITY PREVENTION PROGRAMS

•primary prevention programs- aimed

to stop the development of disorders

before it starts.

•Secondary prevention programs –

provides treatment to people in the early

stages of their disorder s, in the hope of

reducing the development of the

disorders.

CROSS-CULTURE AND GENDER ISSUES IN

TREATMENT

MATCHING THERAPIST AND CLIENT

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