PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Dsm-5, Active Listening, Behaviour Therapy
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Importance of relationship between person seeking treatment and person delivering treatment: good practitioner client relationship. Psychotherapy techniques: psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapy, freud, emphasis is to lead to insight. Biological treatments: pharmacotherapy: psychotropic medication: drugs that affect mental processes, anti-anxiety drugs, good for short-term treatment, have risks and side effects (addictive) Increase gaba activity (major inhibitory: antidepressants, ssris- most commonly used, leave more available in the synapse. Increase serotonin levels: antipsychotics, number one treatment used to treat schizophrenia, block dopamine, good at reducing positive symptoms of schizophrenia. Neurodevelopmental disorders: typically diagnosed in childhood, continue to impact people throughout the life span. Identifying specific behaviours and modifying them to see changes: figuring out what is reinforcing the child, reinforcing assessment, stay away from food reinforcers. Environmental factors including lead contamination, low birth weight. Treatments include behaviour therapy, medication, dopamine activity. Causes of schizophrenia: frontal lobe dysfunction, lower brain volume, larger ventricles.