PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Aversion Therapy, Behaviour Therapy, Aaron T. Beck
4 May 2014
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Does therapy work? evaluating therapeutic effectiveness spontaneous-remission effect self-selection regression towards the mean placebo effect. Meta-analysis - method that gives some idea how effective the therapies are. Can prevention strategies be incorporated into therapy to improve therapeutic effectiveness: prevention strategies. Primary prevention - prevent con"ds from the beginning. Eg. raising awareness secondary - limiting the duration and severity of the disorder. Eg. how to limit illness tertiary - when the person has been impacted the disorder. Ie. treat the disorder so that the person does not relapse again: freudian psychoanalysis. Psychodynamic therapies intensive and prolonged technique for exploring unconscious motivations and conflicts. Insight therapy therapies guides patient toward discovering insights b/w present symptoms and past origins: free association thoughts, wishes, physical sensations, and mental images as they occur, catharsis expressing strongly felt but usually repressed emotions. Factors that affects the process: resistance, dream analysis and interpretation, transference, countertransference - when a person comes to like/dislike the client.
