PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Clozapine, Systematic Desensitization

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Summarize the most common ways to assess psychological disorders. Psychological tests (pen and paper, less vulnerable to bias) Cognitive and neuropsychological tests (eeg, cat, fmri, pet) Describe the use of behavioural therapies based on operant conditioning and classical conditioning. Behavioural therapies aim to use operant and classical conditioning techniques to rid a patient of their maladaptive behaviour. Emphasis on the problem, not the individual. Very effective for definable problems like phobias or addictions. Describe the use of cognitive and cognitive behavioural therapies. Cognitive therapy was developed initially to treat clients with depression, but is now also been adapted for use with clients who have anxiety disorders, eating disorders, mood disorders and schizophrenia. It is often combined with cognitive behavioural therapy (cbt) Cbt focuses on how psychological problems are the results of maladaptive ways of thinking, which in turn lead to maladaptive behaviours. Based on the finding that depressed people tend to focus more on negative events than positive ones.