Psychotherapy:

Psychological treatment between a patient and therapist generally aimed at changing patterns of thought, emotion, or behavior.

Psychoanalysis:

emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses. Developed by Sigmund frued.

a form of therapy based on Fruedian theory; it aims to help clients examine needs, defenses, and motives as a way of understanding distress.

Biological therapies:

a treatment of psychological disorders based on medical approaches to disease(what is wrong with the body) and to illness(what a person feels as a result)

Insight therapies:

verbal interactions intended to enhance clients’ self-knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior. Include psychoanalysis, client-centered therapy, and group therapy.

Treatment based on the premise that behavior is learned and therefore can be unlearned through the use of classical and operant conditioning.

a behavioral therapy technique that involves repeated exposure to an anxiety-producing stimulus or situation

Cognitive therapy:

treatment based on the idea that distorted thoughts produce maladaptive behaviors and emotional treatment strategies attempt to modify these thought patterns.

an empathic approach to therapyl it encourages people to fullfill their individual potentials for personal growth through greater self understanding.

Psychotropic medications

drugs that affect mental processes including anti-anxiety, antidepressants, and antipsychotics.

Physiological interventions to reduce symptoms associated withy psychological disorders. Two prominent biomedical therapies are Medication, and Electroconvulsive therapy(ECT)

used for the treatment of anxiety; commonly called tranquilizers. Includes benzodiazepines. Increase the activity of GABA, induce drowsiness, highly addictive.

used for the treatment of depression. Gradually elevate mood and bring those out of depression

used for the treatment of schizophrenia and other disorder that involve psychosis. Also known as neuroleptics. Thorazine(Chlorpromazine) and Haldol(haloperidol)

Mood stabilizers:

used to control mood swings seen with bipoar mood disorders. Lithium and Valporate