Imagine that you are an experienced mental health professional. Choose a psychological disorder and describe the type of treatment plan that you would initiate for such a disorder. Describe how you would modify your treatment plan for certain patients, if they do not respond well to your typical treatment paradigm
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
Students may choose to discuss a variety of disorders and treatment options.
?
Anxiety: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT); medication with antidepressant or antianxiety drugs
?
Mood disorders: CBT; medication with antidepressant drugs or lithium carbonate; electroconvulsive therapy (ECT); exercise
?
Schizophrenia: psychosocial rehabilitation; evaluation of expressed emotion; medication with antipsychotic drugs
?
Personality disorders: learning models for antisocial personality disorder; dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder
?
Autism: applied behavior analysis; antipsychotic medications for self-injury
?
ADHD: behavior therapy; stimulant medications
You might also like to view...
What is the name of the new field of study that reflects the shift in focus from infectious disease to psychological/behavioral factors as causes of illness and death?
A. Behavioral medicine B. Abnormal psychology C. Medical psychology D. Physical medicine
Which of the following describes the situation of chaining?
A) Teaching a child to play tennis by reinforcing them for effort and then pulling away from reinforcement once the child is skilled enough to play the complete game of tennis B) Teaching a child to play tennis by reinforcing them for effort and not performance until the child is confident enough to play the complete game of tennis C) Teaching a child to play tennis by providing reinforcement every time the child hits the ball over the net until able to play the complete game of tennis D) Teaching a child to play tennis by providing reinforcement in steps for learning to serve, volley, and use the forehand and backhand until the child can play the complete game of tennis
Your professor shows a complicated diagram on the board while lecturing. You find yourself looking at the details of the diagram while trying to follow what your professor is saying
Your encoding of this information may be somewhat weak due to _____________. a. divided attention c. cross-modal interference b. visual capture d. competing schemata
Which one of the four goals of science is specifically met when we can identify the conditions or causes for the behaviors or events we study?
A. describe B. explain C. predict D. control