PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Albert Bandura, Cognitive Restructuring, Progressive Muscle Relaxation
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Practices like bleeding (cuts/leeches) designed to correct biological imbalances presumed to underlie psychological symptoms. Disturbed patients protected from self-harm thru physical restraints, long warm baths, or placed under cold packs. Two current treatment options: electroconvulsive therapy (controversial) and psychopharmacology (common) Other options that show encouraging results: light therapy, repetitive trans cranial magnetic stimulation, and deep brain stimulation for depression. Ect abandoned with advent of antipsychotic medication for treatment of schizophrenia: still used to treat severe depression that has not responded to other treatments. Especially for older adults and medically ill patients. Pharmacological agents that affect the individual"s psychological functioning are known as psychoactive agents. Placebo: an inert substance associated with alleviation of symptoms through expectancy effects. Active placebo: a therapeutically inert substance with the same side effects as the medication. Placebo washout: the first phase of a clinical trial, in which all participants are given a placebo and those who respond to the placebo are dropped from the study.
