PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Virtual Reality, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Opiate
13 Dec 2015
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Like physicians, psychologists must be aware of the possibility that a specific type of treatment might worsen a condition and, therefore, should be avoided. Scared straight: program developed in the 19070"s that involved exposing at- risk youth to prisons and prisoners. It was meant to shock or scare the youths with the harsh realities of prison life. However, this did more harm that good since participation in the program was associated with an increase chance that adolescents would commit crimes. In psychological approaches, techniques for resolving problems rely heavily upon communication between client and therapist. Insight therapies a general term referring to therapy that involves dialogue between client and therapist for the purpose of gaining awareness and understanding of psychological problems and conflicts. Historically, the formal beginning of insight therapy came with the development of psychoanalysis by sigmund freud and its evolution into psychodynamic therapies, forms of insight therapy that emphasize the need to discover and resolve unconscious conflicts.
