Therapies based on the three psychological models of abnormality

In addition to the three definitions of abnormality (DSN, FFA and DIMH) and the four models (Biological, Behavioural, Cognitive and Psychodynamic), you need to be able to describe and evaluate five specific types of therapy (two biological ones - ECT and drugs - and one each for the other models). The therapy based on the Psychodynamic Model is usually called Psychoanalysis.

Here is the presentation we looked at in today's lesson.

You need to cover the other two psychological approaches (cognitive and behavioural) next week, and make notes on behavioural therapies (which aim to correct faulty behaviour with classical and operant conditioning) and cognitive therapies (which aim to correct faulty thinking) by Wednesday 7th December:

1) Explain each of the following using the terms UCS, UCR, CS and CR:

• Aversion therapy
• Flooding
• Systematic Desensitisation

2) Explain token economies using the term positive reinforcement

3) Describe how CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) is used to treat depression and anxiety disorders. Identify which elements of it are cognitive, and which are behavioural.

Of these Systematic Desensitisation and CBT are the important ones, in that they are the only ones named in the specifications, so the only onse you can be asked specifically about in an exam. We will look at the evaluation of these therapies, and of psychoanalysis, in our next lesson.