PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Classical Conditioning, Epileptic Seizure, Electromagnetic Coil

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Leonard,george

Document Summary

A: a sufferer (patient), a healer (clinicians,therapists) and a series of contacts between healer and sufferer. A: the goal of biological therapy is to improve structural or biochemical functioning and relieve symptoms by use of psychotropic drugs, electroconvulsive therapy or psychotherapy. A: the goal of psychodynamic therapy is to discover source of conflicts and resolved them with the use of free association, analysis of resistance, transference, catharsis, dreams and working thru problems. A: the goal of behavioral therapy is to learn more functional behaviors by using desensitization, aversion therapy, operant conditioning, token economies, modeling and social skills training. A: the goal of cognitive behavioral therapy is to change harmful thinking patterns to more useful ones by using rational-emotive therapy, cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques. A: the goal of humanistic and existential therapy is to provide support for honest self appraisal, self acceptance and self actualization by using client centered, gestalt and existential therapy.