Lesson 5 Assignment-Guess the Therapy

Use the following to help determine which type of therapy is associated with each scenario below. 

Psychoanalytic Therapy:  Essentially talk therapy. This approach involves delving into a patient's thoughts and past experiences to seek out unconscious thoughts, feelings, and memories that may influence behavior.

Behavioral Therapy: A therapeutic approach that applies the principles of learning to the resolution of specific behaviors.

Humanistic Therapy: This approach focuses on helping people maximize their potential. Such approaches tend to stress the importance of self-exploration, free will, and self-actualization.

Cognitive Therapy: This therapy is centered on the idea that our thoughts have a powerful influence on our mental well-being. For example, if you tend to see the negative aspects of every situation, you will probably have a more pessimistic outlook and a gloomier overall mood. The goal of cognitive therapy is to identify the cognitive distortions that lead to this type of thinking and replace such thoughts with more realistic and positive ones. By doing so, people are able to improve their moods and overall well-being.

Cognitive-behavioral Therapy: This psychotherapeutic treatment helps patients understand the thoughts and feelings that influence behaviors.

CBT is commonly used to treat a wide range of disorders including phobias, addiction, depression, and anxiety. CBT is a type of psychotherapy that involves cognitive and behavioral techniques to change negative thoughts and maladaptive behaviors. This approach involves changing the underlying thoughts that contribute to distress and modifying the problematic behaviors that result from these thoughts.

Biological Therapy: This methods tries to cure or improve a patients' mental health through unconventional methods such as electroconvulsive therapy, insulin shock therapy, and psychosurgery.