Monday, December 9, 2013

Chapter 19 : METHODS OF THERAPY (ESSAY)

What is therapy? Is a verbal interaction between trained professional and patient that needs help to a psychological problem, also known as Psychotherapy; Some of the Psychological therapies even require the use of certain drugs like the Biological Therapy. The whole point of Psychotherapy is to make the think of new perspectives to their problem for them to find a solution, and when people go to a therapy it is because they feel alone and what a Psychologist must do is to be his friend.

Psychologists have several techniques to help their patients. Free association where the analyst asks the client to relax and then to say whatever comes to mind. Resistance is the term psychoanalysts use to refer to a client´s hesitancy or unwillingness to discuss issues raised during free association. The second technique is dream analysis this is when the analyst interprets the content of client´s dreams to unlock these unconscious thoughts and feelings. Transference is when the client is transferring feelings and expectations from one person to another.

Non directive therapy is talking openly of about what ever may be troubling them. Active listening is a widely used communication technique in which the listener repeats, rephrases, and asks for clarification of the statements made by the speaker. Cognitive therapy and behavior therapy are considered together because both methods share the same goal; to help client develop new ways of thinking and behaving. Psycho surgery is a brain surgery that is performed to treat psychological disorders. Psychological and physical problems have multiple ways to be solved. People who care about this problems are interested in helping people cope with this issues. 

Cognitive therapy is to help people learn to think about their problems in more productive ways. Cognitive psychologists focus on their beliefs, attitudes and thought processes that create and compound their clients´ problems. Behavior therapy or behavior modification helps people develop more adaptive behavior. Behaviorists believe that both desirable and undesirable behaviors are largely learned and that people with psychological problems have learned unhealthy ways of behaving.  Aversive conditioning, is the opposite systematic desensitization. Operant conditioning is based on the assumption that behavior that is reinforced tends to repeat, whereas behavior that is not reinforced tends to extinguish. Drug therapy is the most widely used biological treatment for psychological problems. Antianxiety drugs are used as an outpatient treatment to help people with anxiety disorders or panic attacks. Antidepressant drugs are used in the treatment of eating disorders and panic disorder. Antipsychotic drugs are effective for reducing agitation, delusions and hallucinations. 

Therapy will help a person to be happy in life, and to know how to manage all the types of problems there are in life, because life isn’t easy this may cause to a person to do things things that are not right, causing them to be depressed, etc. Therapy will help them overcome all problems possible.

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