Psychotherapy: Depression

What will be an ideal response?


Cognitive therapy (Beck)
Examine, monitor thought processes; recognize "depressive errors"

Challenge / correcting cognitive errors ... substituting less depressing / more realistic thoughts, self-appraisals

Later, underlying negative cognitive schemas targeted

Generally time limited ... 10 to 20 weekly sessions

Interpersonal therapy (Weismann, Klerman)
Focus on problems in relationships

Goals:
Identify life events / stress that ? depression
Focus on one or more of four interpersonal domains
loss role dispute
role transition deficits in social skills

Generally 10 to 20 weekly sessions

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Freud considered ____ to be the MOST direct way to access the patient's unconscious, or the "royal road to the unconscious."

a. truth serum b. hypnosis c. free association d. dreams

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Kim and her family were involved in a road accident. Kim was the only survivor. Her son and husband were declared spot dead. When Kim returned home, she started having dreams about people dying in tragic accidents. These nightmares left Kim with a rapid heart rate and feelings of anxiety and helplessness. Kim is most likely suffering from:

A) body dysmorphic disorder. B) dissociative identity disorder. C) posttraumatic stress disorder. D) somatoform disorder.

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We are using the _________ _________ when we base our estimates of frequency or probability of events on how easy it is to find examples

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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According to Chapter 15, many judges are inclined to place an offending juvenile in a secure residential facility as opposed to treating the juvenile in the community because

A. a community based program is not available. B. the publicly perceived risk to society is lower. C. A and B D. neither A nor B

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