Chapter 5: Treatments for Abnormality
After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: - Give examples of antipsychotic, antidepressant, mood stabilizing, and antianxiety drugs and know their appropriate uses and limitations.
- Distinguish among MAO inhibitors, tricyclic antidepressants, and SSRIs.
- Identify the appropriate and inappropriate uses of ECT and psychosurgery.
- Describe the components of psychodynamic therapy and how it is thought to work.
- Describe humanistic therapy and how it is conducted.
- Describe techniques used in behavior therapy.
- Describe the elements of cognitive therapy and how it is similar to behavior therapy.
- Discuss IPT and how it is both similar to and different from psychodynamic therapy.
- Discuss alternatives to individual therapy (e.g., family and group therapy).
- Describe how mental health treatment may be carried out in the community.
- Discuss how cultural issues may affect treatment and the extent to which research suggests that these issues should affect therapist-client matching.
- Discuss some of the problems with therapy outcome research.
- Summarize the common components of successful therapies.
- Discuss the special issues that can arise when treating children.
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