Chapter 13
Treatment and Therapy for the Psychological Disorders
Learning Objectives for Chapter 13:
- Trace the history of the treatment of people with psychological disorders,
and identify the major people involved.
- Discuss later "enlightened" treatment and the people involved
in the movement.
- Define lobotomy and discuss its use, both past and present.
- Describe ECT and its current use.
- Discuss treatment with antipsychotic drugs, listing the various drugs
and their effects.
- Summarize the three classes of antidepressant drugs, including their effects.
- Discuss treatment with antianxiety drugs and the dangers of their use.
- List and describe the different types of mental health professionals.
- Describe Freudian psychoanalysis, and define its major features and techniques.
- Explain how psychoanalysis is different today from the way it was practiced
by Freud.
- Summarize the basic ideas behind humanistic therapy techniques.
- Contrast the essential characteristics of client-centered therapy with
those of Gestalt therapy.
- Identify the underlying assumptions of behavior therapy, and name and
describe the techniques used by this orientation.
- Summarize the basic idea behind cognitive therapy techniques.
- Describe rational-emotive therapy and cognitive restructuring therapy.
- Explain group therapy, and discuss its advantages.
- List the two assumptions underlying family therapy.
- Discuss the general effectiveness of psychotherapy and whether any one
type is more effective than others.