PSYC1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Operant Conditioning, Behavioral Activation, Catatonia
Psych Week 7
Lecture – Psychological Therapies
Schools of Therapy:
• Biological – cause of emotional distress, remedied by medications
• Psychodynamic – distress in the past, need insight, catharsis and correct emotional
experiences
• Behavioural – behaviour and effects change, classical or operant
• Cognitive Behavioural – notion that the way we think affects the way we behave and feel
Behaviour Therapy:
• Classical conditioning – Pavlogs dogs, use of sounds to achieve a response such as music
• Operant conditioning – consequences make someone more or less likely to do something
• Use of intervention, general vs specific praise
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy:
• Focus on thoughts, feelings and behaviours
• A (Activating event) B (Behavioural) C (Consequences) Model
• Strategies – CBT (challenging of thoughts, behavioural activation and experiments
• RCT – Randomised Controlled Trials (must be better than the placebo treatment
• Meta-Analyses
Conclusions:
• There are many different types of therapy
• The therapy that a practitioner uses depends on what they believe to be the explanation for
the problem
• This is a theoretical orientation
• Soe itervetios ad approahes are osidered to e evidee ased ad this has a
specific meaning in this context
Lecture – Schizophrenia
Prevalence:
• Peak age 15-35
• Described in all cultures and SES groups
• Most expensive of all mental disorders (treatment costs, loss of productivity, public
assistance costs)
Criteria:
• Delusions
• Hallucinations
• Disorganised speech – word salad
• Grossly disorganised and catatonic behaviour
• Negative symptoms (affect flattening)
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