PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Demonic Possession, Deinstitutionalisation, Psychodynamics

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill Atkinson

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Topic 2: the people and facilities that provide care. Notes: severity of symptoms determines the intensity of treatment, hope helps success, process, evaluate patient"s symptoms, form treatment plan, choose provider and location for treatment, then treat patient, re-evaluate symptoms. Summarize the most common methods for assessing psychological disorders: measure symptoms. Summarize the use of medications to treat psychological disorders. Evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment of psychological disorders. Summarize the most common psychological therapies for treating psychological disorders. Evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment of psychological disorders: drug therapies can be very effective at reducing symptoms, some disorders benefit more than others in comparison to other forms of treatment, some call for a combination of therapies. Notes: psychoanalytic freudian psychodynamic theory: behavior can be explained in terms of unconscious forces or desires, psychological problems, according to this, are the result of these internal conflicts.