Evaluation of Therapies for Abnormality
- Created by: Lucy Hodgson
- Created on: 04-06-13 12:32
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- Evaluations of abnormality therapies.
- Biological Therapies.
- Drugs
- Ease of use
- Effectiveness
- Placebo work just as well.
- Tackles the symptoms, not the cause.
- Side effects.
- Electroconvulsive Therapy.
- Effective
- High relapse rate.
- Not sure how it works.
- Not as safe as drug therapies.
- Side effects.
- Drugs
- Behavioural Therapies.
- Systematic Desensistilisation
- Effective
- Appropriate as it requires little effort on the patients part.
- Doesn't treat anything other than phobias.
- Ethical Issues
- Systematic Desensistilisation
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapies.
- REBT
- Very effective
- Treats a lot of disorders
- Not time consuming.
- Not many ethical issues.
- Ineffective with SZ.
- Cheaper methods are available.
- One ethical issue may be that the client feels blames.
- REBT
- Psychodynamic therapies.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Effective
- Works in the long term.
- Expensive as it takes a lot of sessions.
- Ethical issues.
- Lots of stressful memories have to be brought up.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Biological Therapies.
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