HPS121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Small Talk, Sexual Dysfunction, Diazepam
17 Sep 2018
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Explore different psychological treatments: social skills training, third-wave, biological. Mental state of awareness, focus, openness and acceptance of immediate experience. Also focuses on processs of mindfulness as vehicle for change. Key difference is focus on just noticing and accept thoughts rather than challenging or changing them. Can reduce anxiety associated with the problem. Good evidence for treatment of chronic pain. Subtype of cbt with focus on psychosocial components. Distress tolerance social skills training emotion regulation group or individual sessions. Antipsychotic drugs: major tranquillisers, used to treat schizophrenic disorders, decreases the action of dopamine, reducing hallucinations and delusions, little impact on negative symptoms, side effect: tardive dyskinesia. Antianxiety drugs: valium, xanax, serepax and buspar- tranduilisers, reduces anxiety without impacting alertness, slow down excitatory synaptic activity, reducing emotional arousal, side effects: drowsiness, lethargy and concentrations issues, as well as dependence and withdrawal. Increases norepinephrine and serotonin assisting with postivie emotion and motivation, by preventing reuptake: monoamine oxidase.
