PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Electroconvulsive Therapy, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Vagus Nerve
2 Apr 2016
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A series of contacts with the goal of changing aitudes, emoional states, or behaviours. Psychotherapies use words and acts to overcome psychological diiculies. Biological therapies drugs and physiological intervenions such as surgeries. About 20 million north americans per year: more than 3/4 of them seek help with anxiety or depression o. About 2/3 of clients are women, 1/3 are men: white individuals more likely to seek treatment than members of other ethnic groups. There has been a signiicant reducion in the sigma associated with mental illness. Percepions of sigma coninue to play a role in people"s decisions about whether or not to acknowledge their mental issues and whether or not to seek treatment. Public insituions, such as hospitals and clinics, schools, private oices. Outlines paient rights and condiions for involuntary admitance. Reducion in psychiatric beds in canada since 1964; brief stay in hospital.
