PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Acetylcholine, Dyskinesia, Mania
2 Sep 2016
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Psychotherapy a psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioral and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives: self awareness, learn better ways of coping, change their lifestyle. Who goes to therapy: women are more likely than men, caucasian are more likely than any other race to seek treatment. Who practices therapy: clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health counselors, clinical social workers, paraprofessionals. Who benefits most: patients with temporary problems anxiety, those who better adjust, those who accept they are contributing to their problems, those willing to work on their problems. Good therapists are those who expert warm respectful, caring, and engaging characteristics. Psychological assessments the process of collecting and processing information from a client as a basis for determining the person"s problems as well as the goals and strategies uses in treatment, ideally, this involves a variety of measures. That will lead to a balanced assessment of the individual.
