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Health behaviors are influence by:
- the persons readiness to take action, which depends on him/her perceived susceptability to the illness and perceived serverity and concequences
- a person's evaluation of the benefits and costs of acting
- the internal and external cues of action that trigger a response such as the health of friends, family and media
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Mental Health Consultation
Client-Centered Case Consultation |
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working with the consultee (teacher or therapist) to develop a plan that will enable to consultee to worke more effctively with a client |
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Consultee Centered Case Consultation |
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| to enhance the consultees performance in delivering services to a population or group of clients. The focus is on the consultee's skills,knowledge and objectivity. Lack of objectively, stem from theme interference past conflicts with a client interfere with objectivity at the present time |
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Program Centered Administrative Consultation
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working with one or more administrators to resolve problems related to an existing program |
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Consultee-Centered Administrative Consultation |
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help administrative level personnel improve their professional functioning so they can be more effective in the furure with regards to program development, implementation and evaluation |
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| Eysenck and Psychotherapy |
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| he summarized the results of 24 outcome studies and concluded that the effects of psychotherapy were "small or nonexistent" and that any posotive effects reflect nothing more than spontaneous remission. 73 % of neurotic patients with no therapy control group showed improvement in 2 years while 66% receiving eclectic psychotherapy and 44% psychodynamic improved |
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| the relationship between treatment length and outcome level off at about 26 sessions. Results revealed that 75%of patients showed improvement at 26 weeks and at 52 sessions this number increased to only 85% this is referred as the dose-dependent effect |
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Howard's Model-progress in thearpy |
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- remoralization- client's feelings of hopelessness respond quickly to the first sessions
- remediation-the focus is on symtoms that brought the client into session (16 sessions)
- rehabilitation-unlearning troublesome, maladaptive habitual bxs
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Research on psychotherapy |
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Whites receive tx for depression
Afican Americans tx for illicit drugs
Hispanics and AA use the most MH services
Asian Americans are underrepreented |
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Premature Termination Rates |
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Whites dont dropout of tx are much as minority groups
African Americans have higher rates of premature termination than whites, asians, and hispanics |
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Ethnic matching reduced premature terminarion of ASIANS. HISPANICS and WHITES, but not for AFRICAN AMERICANS
Matching is only associated with Hispanics when it comes to tx outcome |
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most common mental health problems
Anxiety, cognitive impairments, depression
they are more heterogeneous
repond slow to therapy but can benefit the same as yonger adults from a variety of therapies
bx and environmental int. for dementia, memory and cognitive retraining, CBT and brief psychodynamic for depression |
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| younger, heterosexual, American Indian/Alaska Native (followed by African Americans) and in families that have an income less than 10,000. Other studies revealed that family income was the best single predictor of cessation of battering, with low income families being the most likely to report continued violence |
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| were designed to standardize psychotherapeutic treatments so their effects could be empirically validated and to provide guidelines for training therapists. Criticisms were that it oversinplified the therapeutic process and can lead to the misuse of techniques |
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- therapists find suicidal statements to be the most stressful type of client behavior
- therapists consider lack of therapeutic success the single most stressfull aspect of their job
- Issues with confidentiality is the most frequenent ethical dilemma
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never married men
white
age range 25-44
dx-SCPT 18-24 age range,65 and older organic disorder (dementia) followed by affective disorders |
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