Driving Question: How do psychological perspectives account for the explanation and treatment of psychological disorders?
Psychological Therapies:
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Read the Following Articles:
treating_psychological_disorders.pdf | |
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reducing_disorder_by_confronting_it.pdf | |
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reducing_disorder_biologically.pdf | |
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reducing_disorder_by_changing_the_social_situation.pdf | |
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evaluating_treatment_and_prevention.pdf | |
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Exposure Therapy:
Reward System:
Combating Mental Health:
New Technology:
Treatment of Abnormal Behavior: Below are videos about treatment of psychological disorders that you are to view. The hope is that by watching these videos you will be better versed in key concepts and terminology pertaining to this unit.
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Tardive Dyskinesia: is a movement disorder attributed to long-term use of antipsychotic drugs. The video below shows several examples along with an explanation of how the AIMS diagnostic test is used to identify tardive dyskinesia in patients. Also included (below right) is a brief explanation of what the AIMS test is and how it is used.
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Watch the two Documentaries on obsessive compulsive disorder. Pay close attention to the ways which OCD is treated:
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Biomedical Therapy: The links below will give you a glimpse of the more invasive, non-medicinal biomedical pathways to treating psychological disorders. Some are more controversial than others and have fallen out of practice. This is certainly the case with trans orbital lobotomies. Similarly, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) became highly controversial during the 1970s and 1980s due to films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and fell out of favor as an acceptable treatment. ECT has seen a resurgence in use and acceptance over the past two decades, however, as formidable weapon against severe depression.
Trans orbital Lobotomy:
ECT:
rTMS:
Howard's Journey...
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS):
Please watch with caution! The video below pertians to brain surgery and contains graphic content. If blood and brains make you nauseous, then skip it, and proceed to the button entitled Brodmann Area 25.
DBS surgery - actual procedure - Stanford
Psychological Therapy Booklet- in class handout> Complete Questions #1-32
Use the pdf presentations below, your digital textbook Chapter 15, and the video's that you just viewed above to help answer the Psychological Therapy Booklet 1.1 Questions:
chapter_15_therapy.ppt | |
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evaluating_therapies.pdf | |
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biomedical_therapy.pdf | |
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