PSYC 1115 Lecture Notes - Dream Interpretation, Psych, Acute Stress Reaction
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Humanistic-existential: reflection, express feelings, take responsibility for your life and choices, acceptance by therapist. Better than no treatment, but less effective than structured therapies such as cognitive therapy, behavioural therapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy. Cognitive therapy: encouragement target negative explanatory style and change into positive change thinking style. Behavioural: encourage people to associate negative with positive feelings. Randomized controlled trials: participants randomly assigned to treatment, control condition without treatment. Meta-analysis: compile many studies together, examine overall [most powerful evidence] Example of outcome research: 90 patients with schizophrenia symptoms that weren"t responding to drug treatments. Half ra to cbt treatment half to friend treatment. Patients who received cbt showed fewer psychotic symptoms than befriend group. Example of meta-analysis: studies comparing cbt to placebo conditions for anxiety disorders. Overall cbt reduced anxiety symptoms better than placebo. Method: show at-risk, early delinquent adolescents prison or dtes. Assumption: seeing prison in real life, dtes will frighten people to avoid those actions.
