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Axia College Material Appendix C Psychotherapy Matrix Directions: Review Modules 34 and 36 of Psychology and Your Life. After reviewing the major classifications of psychological disorders, select three approaches to summarize. Include examples of the types of psychological disorders appropriate for each therapy. Psychodynamic Therapy ApproachBehavioral Therapy ApproachCognitive Therapy Approach Summary of ApproachPsychodynamic Therapy seeks to bring unresolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses from the unconscious into the conscious, where patients may deal with the problems more effectively.
Psychoanalysis Freudian Psychotherapy in which the goal is to release hidden unconscious thoughts and feelings in order to reduce their power in controlling behavior. ???Resistance is an inability or unwillingness to discuss or reveal particular memories, thoughts, or motivations. ???Transference is the transfer to a psychoanalyst feeling of love or anger that had been originally directed to a patient’s parents or other authority figures. Now psychoanalyst approaches tends to be shorter duration, usually lasting no longer than three months or 20 lessons.
Where therapist puts less emphasis on a patients past history and childhood, concentrating instead on an individual’s current relationships and specific complaints. (Feldman, 2010, p. 429-440). Behavioral Therapy builds on the basic processes of learning, such as reinforcement and extinction, and assumes that normal and abnormal behaviors are both learned. Classical Conditioning treatments ???Aversive conditioning Is a form of therapy that reduces the frequency of undesired behavior by pairing an aversive, unpleasant stimulus with
Undesired behavior. ???Systematic desensitization: A behavioral technique in which gradual exposure to an anxiety-producing stimulus is paired with relaxation to extinguish the response of anxiety Exposure A behavioral treatment for anxiety in which people are confronted, either suddenly or gradually, with a stimulus that they fear. ???Dialectical behavior therapy A form of treatment in which the focus is on getting people to accept who they are, regardless of whether it matches their ideal. (Feldman, 2010, p. 429-440).
Cognitive Therapy teaches people to think in more adaptive ways by changing their dysfunctional cognitions about the world and themselves. ???Cognitive treatment approaches Treatment approaches that teach people to think in more adaptive ways by changing their dysfunctional cognitions about the world and themselves. ???Cognitive-behavioral approach Is a treatment approach that incorporates basic principles of learning to change the way people think ???Rational-emotive behavior therapy Is a form of therapy that attempts to restructure a person’s elief system into a more realistic, rational, and logical set of views by challenging dysfunctional beliefs that maintain irrational behavior. (Feldman, 2010, p. 429-440). Disorders appropriate for this therapy???Anxiety Ex. When I was a child I had a fear to speak in public, because once I had to sing in front of the school, and because I was nervous I forgot part of the song and my friends laugh at me. Since then speaking in public is been an issue, because I did not confronted. ???Anxiety ???Phobias ???Compulsions ???Fear Ex.
Let’s say I am afraid of heights, if I go through an exposure treatment, I will confront this problem little by little until I feel comfortable to go on a building and not have fear at all. ???Anxiety disorders ???Depression ???Eating Disorders Ex. When a person has goals and don’t turned the way they want. As a result depression and negative feelings start coming out of this person. To the point they feel they can not accomplish anything on life. References Feldman, R. S. (2010) Psychology and your life. New York: McGraw Hill.