PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Partial Hospitalization, Deinstitutionalisation, Group Psychotherapy
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150-volt electrical current is passed through the brain for slightly less than a second: ect debate. Ect produces only temporary improvement, but must be combined with other treatments. Should be used only after other treatments have failed: psychosurgery. Prefrontal lobotomy: frontal lobes are surgically disconnected from the other brain areas. This surgery cannot be reversed: forms of hospitalization. Mental hospitalization: placing a person in a protected setting where medical therapy is provided. Partial hospitalization: patients spend their days in the hospital, but go home at night and practice what they have learned. Deinstitutionalization: reduced use of full-time commitment to mental institutions. Halfway houses: living facilities where people transition from mental institutions to normal life: drug therapies (pharmacotherapy) Use of drugs to treat emotional disturbances (schizophrenia and mood disturbances) Psychotherapy: any psychological technique that can bring about positive changes in personality, behavior, or personal adjustment, dimensions of therapy: Individual therapy: therapy involving only one client and one therapist.
