Other Types of Treatment
Behavior therapy is a method of treatment developed based on the ideas of B.F. Skinner, an American behavioralist who believed that the key to treating psychological behavior was changing external behavior. Although this perception is skewed, his development of operant conditioning, promoting the change of behavior through positive and negative consequences, helps treat people with OCD, PTSD, phobia, and anxiety.
Group therapy is similar to Freud's psychoanalytic treatment in that it focuses on talking and venting, but instead of freely rambling about anything that comes to mind to a psychiatrist, group therapy emphasizes emotional support from people who have had like experiences. This often works for depression brought upon by grief, eating disorders, and gambling.
Rational-emotive therapy was developed by Albert Ellis, who believed that mental illness is caused by irrational thinking, and that changing to a more rational mindset will cure patients. He describes the onset of mental illness using the ABC model: and activation event causes an irrational belief to manifest, bringing upon the consequence of illness. Treatment would center upon dispelling that irrational belief so the patient can be brought out of the mindset that their illness put them in. This type of therapy is more effective with people who experience depression caused by a tragic life event.
Group therapy is similar to Freud's psychoanalytic treatment in that it focuses on talking and venting, but instead of freely rambling about anything that comes to mind to a psychiatrist, group therapy emphasizes emotional support from people who have had like experiences. This often works for depression brought upon by grief, eating disorders, and gambling.
Rational-emotive therapy was developed by Albert Ellis, who believed that mental illness is caused by irrational thinking, and that changing to a more rational mindset will cure patients. He describes the onset of mental illness using the ABC model: and activation event causes an irrational belief to manifest, bringing upon the consequence of illness. Treatment would center upon dispelling that irrational belief so the patient can be brought out of the mindset that their illness put them in. This type of therapy is more effective with people who experience depression caused by a tragic life event.