PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Endocrine System, Psychoactive Drug, Deep Brain Stimulation

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Steve Spencer

Document Summary

Psychotherapy - processes for resolving personal, emotional, behavioral and social problems so as to improve well being. People avoid treatment by minimizing their condition: make symptoms less severe than they are some resist the help because of stigma (negative stereotypes) Gender roles - males are less likely to seek help than females. Psychiatrists - physicians who specialize in mental health, and who diagnose and treat mental disorders primarily through medications that influence brain chemistry. Empirically supported treatments - treatments been tested and evaluated using sound research design. Insight therapies insight therapies - general term referring to psych that involves dialogue between client and therapist for the purposes of gaining awareness and understanding of psychological problems and conflicts. Psychodynamic therapies - forms of insight therapy that emphasize the need to discover and resolve unconscious conflicts. Psychoanalysis - insight therapy developed by freud that become precursor to modern psychodynamic therapies.