ECT
A quick overview of ECT... hope it helps :)
- Created by: Kobi Howarth
- Created on: 14-12-12 19:36
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- CBT
- AO1
- Lies on bed in loose clothes.
- Receives muscle relaxant and anaesthetic.
- Current 70v - 130v passes through brain for 1/2 a second.
- Place electrodes on the patients temples.
- They recall nothing afterwards.
- Used to be used to help schizophrenia sufferers.
- Is now mainly used for depression.
- 2-3 times a week for 3-4 weeks.
- AO1
- AO2
- CBT
- AO1
- Lies on bed in loose clothes.
- Receives muscle relaxant and anaesthetic.
- Current 70v - 130v passes through brain for 1/2 a second.
- Place electrodes on the patients temples.
- They recall nothing afterwards.
- Used to be used to help schizophrenia sufferers.
- Is now mainly used for depression.
- 2-3 times a week for 3-4 weeks.
- AO1
- Lack of Informed Consent
- Not in the right state of mind...
- So cannot establish cause and effect.
- Protection of Participants.
- Used as a punishment...
- So should not be used as a treatment.
- Not appropriate as...
- Individuals are not in the right state of mind.
- Individual do not remember it.
- Not effective in treating schizophrenia, however, it is effective when treating depression.
- CBT
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