5. A brief electric current is sent through the brain while the patient is under anesthesia. The therapy triggers a brief seizure and changes the symptom-causing chemistry in the brain 
6. Weaknesses: the treatment can cause memory loss. Inadequate education on ECT has also led to misconceptions. 
Strengths: ECT has a very high success rate and provides very rapid improvements

   Salvador Minuchin- developed structural family therapy
5. Techniques such as communication and structural therapy is used

6.The critiques is that family therapies may alter perceptions on family members and situations that may cause negative feelings to arise. Its strengths is that it may allow for better communication, and may allow for patients to learn how to resolve issues among each other. It may also allow the patients to develop a better understanding of boundaries, family patterns and dynamics.

3: Paranoia, depression, anxiety, aggression, hallucinations, and other problems

4:In 1940-1950 the introduction of thorazine, the first psychotropic drug, was a milestone in treatment therapy, it was used for psych patients

5:Prescribed drugs are combined with other kinds of psychotherapy

6:Some pharmacological treatments can also increase psychological symptoms such as anxiety, suicidal ideation, and even increase suicide attempts (especially in young adults). The strengths were that the drugs kept their disorders under control enough to keep them from having outburst or going back to old habits. It allowed them to have a “normal” life just like everyone else. 

-Mercedes Reyna

Strengths: It is the easiest and most natural way to learn a new behavior

Strengths: It sometimes proves to be successful if directed by a therapist. Also has found short-term effectiveness.

2.) The main goal of this treatment is to assert the opportunity that there’s  growth  in relationships.

3.)  Some of the mental issues that are treated by this therapy include: Depression, Anxiety, Substance abuse, Personality disorder, etc.

4.) The person that matters most is who created the whole operation, which was Carl Rogers, also known as the Godfather of Humanistic theories

5.) The technique focuses on the individual's aspirations, concerns and challenges.

6.) The benefits of this therapy include being more expressing with their emotions and having an overall better outlook on things, feeling better about their image, empowered.

The weaknesses of this therapy include only being supportive of the client, not challenging them enough, it limits the understanding of the clients. 

2. It is a biomedical approach as this type of therapy can also be applied to physical ailments. It has to do with the fundamental belief that choices about physical health impact mental health.

3. The main types of mental health issues that are treated by this are depressions, but it can also be used as a preventative measure against disorders like Alzheimer’s and other neurological degeneration diseases.

4. N/A

5. The techniques of the treatment are rather simple. It is the compounding of positive lifestyle changes like exercise, proper diet, being out in nature, and other adjustments that contribute to the clinical result. These lifestyle changes are the main tenets of the treatment. 

6. Critiques are that this treatment requires a person to change their entire lifestyle -- which is a big change and requires them to be OK with being uncomfortable. Another critique is that this kind of treatment does not selectively target the brain or a part of the brain. It is a whole-body treatment that also affects the mind. 

3)The majority of health issues treated  by free association (a division of psychoanalysis) include trauma or struggles with fears. This is because free association looks to reveal those “hidden” or “repressed” memories, thoughts, or fears that the person is struggling with.

4) Sigmund Freud created the psychoanalysis treatment method, which aimed to reveal a person’s internal expressions. Free association is a sub-method of 3 used to help in this process, as patients are encouraged to verbally express their raw emotions.

5) Some of the techniques utilized in Free association include asking patients to get in a comfortable position(sitting or lying down) before they proceed to express their inner guts.Therapists ask questions telling their patients to recall everything they can think of and felt about particular memories. Additionally, therapists might ask patients to recall what they think when they see an image, or write down all their thoughts at a particular moment during the session.

6) Critics of Freud’s Free Association treatment method argue that people might overproduce associations with their memories,thoughts, and feelings. False connections between emotions can also lead the therapist and patient off, and create confusion and incorrect diagnosis and treatment. Patients can also become stressed from feeling pressured by therapists, or that they aren’t sharing a large enough quantity of the words and thoughts that come to mind while in therapy sessions. On the bright side though, this “share it all” method can sometimes be the only way to find correlation/causation, as patients sharing their direct thoughts and feelings allows for the therapist to “see inside” the patient’s mind.

2) By focusing on goal setting and overcoming hardship during therapy sessions, the REPT approach seeks to strengthen an individual's self esteem. The idea is that self-degradation can be eliminated by instilling a forward-thinking and persevering attitude. 

3) Cognitive Psychologist Albert Ellis initiated this approach to treating internal struggles. His goal was to include this treatment as a branch of psychotherapy that examined therapy as a method of radical change and life turn around. 
4. It was developed by psychologist Albert Ellis who found himself longing for companionship and tackled his fear of talking to women by forcing himself to talk to 100 women. He realized that over time his fear of speaking to women diminished considerably and this insight was the basis of his approach to therapy. Karen Horney and Alfred Adler also influenced this form of therapy as their ideas inspired Ellis.

5. The ‘ABC’ technique is utilized in this treatment. It is a form of thinking heuristic wherein we learn to understand our emotional reactions are not caused by external events but rather by our beliefs that influence our emotions. Something happens → we have a belief  → we have an emotional reaction about the belief. The key to this therapy is understanding this progression.

6. The strength is that it allows people to understand where their emotions are coming from. It allows them to manage their own emotions rationally. A weakness is that it may not alone allow someone to increase their happiness or change their life in a significant way. 

Insight therapies 

2. What is the philosophy that drives your assigned treatment method?

This is driven through the idea that we can control our thoughts and feelings through understanding the causes of the issues.

3. What kinds of mental health issues are treated by your assigned treatment method?

Trauma related disorders, such as anxiety, ptsd and OCD. 

4. Who are the important people associated with your treatment method?

Sigmund Freud was the main psychologist who developed insight therapy.

5. What are the techniques utilized in your treatment methods? 

It is a conversation based therapy that focuses on free thinking and unfiltered thought.

6. What are the critiques of your assigned treatment method? What are its strengths?

Strengths: discovery of the root of the problem, learn more about oneself. Critiques: Time consuming and can be ineffective.