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Mental Disorders
A small group of different disorderings and the thearpies involved with treating them
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/10/2008

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Affective Disorders
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Prominent Symptoms, disturbance in mood, episoides, includes depression
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Cognative Disorders
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Abnormal behaviors resulting from "faulty" thoughts and emotions, change the thoughts and emotions and behavior changes
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Coversion Disorders
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Physical Problem due to psychological problem, often tramtic event and/or stress
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Behavioral Disorder
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Abnormal behaviors are learned through life experiences, changed using conditioning
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Cognative Therapy
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Automatic irrational thoughts, collaboration between patient/therapist, therapist hard on patient
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Attribution Theory
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Conclusion about Situational vs. Dispositional (personal) causes of behavior
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Behavioral Therapy
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Based on conditioning, learning, and reinforcement
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Gestalt Therapy
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(Fritz Peris) Therapist helps client resolve concious conflicts and difficulties to promote self understanding
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Humanistic Therapies
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Client-Centered, Client solves own problems, works towards self actualization
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Psychotherapy
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Foster of self growth and self understanding
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Psychoanalytical Therapy
Definition
"Talking Therapy"
Resolves conflicts of the unconcious
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