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Chapter 5: Treatments for Abnormality

After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

  1. Give examples of antipsychotic, antidepressant, mood stabilizing, and antianxiety drugs and know their appropriate uses and limitations.
  2. Distinguish among MAO inhibitors, tricyclic antidepressants, and SSRIs.
  3. Identify the appropriate and inappropriate uses of ECT and psychosurgery.
  4. Describe the components of psychodynamic therapy and how it is thought to work.
  5. Describe humanistic therapy and how it is conducted.
  6. Describe techniques used in behavior therapy.
  7. Describe the elements of cognitive therapy and how it is similar to behavior therapy.
  8. Discuss IPT and how it is both similar to and different from psychodynamic therapy.
  9. Discuss alternatives to individual therapy (e.g., family and group therapy).
  10. Describe how mental health treatment may be carried out in the community.
  11. Discuss how cultural issues may affect treatment and the extent to which research suggests that these issues should affect therapist-client matching.
  12. Discuss some of the problems with therapy outcome research.
  13. Summarize the common components of successful therapies.
  14. Discuss the special issues that can arise when treating children.







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