April+22+notes

These are the notes on personality disorders. They are notes that I have added from the slideshow. I will tell you what slides have these additional notes. I did not have additional notes for every slide. Please refer to the powerpoint. Thank you! -Mariel Celentano

Personality Disorders:

"Therapy and Change" - trephaning: In the Medieval days, they used to drill holes in heads to release demons

"The Nature of Psychotherapy" -"mental illness": inability to cope with stress

"Main Kinds of Therapy" -Psychoanalysis: talk therapy -Biological Approach: medicine

"Group Therapy" -Interpersonal or relationship therapy -advantages: psychodrama or role playing, they see how their actions affect others

"Does Psychotherapy Work?" -doesn't matter which approach of therapy is taken, any approach will help -Hans Eysenck: thought people would get better anyway -Allen Bergin: if the standard of improvement then people did benefit -Smith & Glass: more effective than no treatment

"Humanistic/Client-Centered Therapy" -Maslow & Carl Rogers -every individual is born with a unique potential -therapist and client are on equal terms

"Cognitive Therapies: Similarities" -disconfirmation: confronting patients with evidence that their belief is not true ex/ client: "I don't have any fun" therapist: "write out a list of times you have had fun" client writes out list and realizes that they do have fun sometimes -reconceptualization: helps patients develop alternate belief system -insight: helps client undersatnd how they can improve level of happiness, this of themselves in positive ways

"Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET)" -challenge & change -"it's not the end of the world" -learn how to take emotional risks

"Beck's Cognitive Therapy" -past and unconcious -the cause of the behavior is not important, it doesn't matter

"Biological Therapy" -brain damage, unbalanced hormones -do not cure disease, just help symptoms -bad side effects

"The Deinstitutionalized Person" -not having people in hospitals against their will -this was meant to be a good thing, but it put many sick people on the streets

"Electrocompolsive Therapy" -works with extremely depressed people -only shock right hemisphere: less loss of memory