PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Mental Health Professional
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Psychology notes: week 9: clinical psychology ii - Therapies- the big picture: anxiety disorders: Phobias are very successful in therapy, usually treated by cognitive therapy, Systematic desensitization: behavioural in that behaviour is being done, cognitive in that thoughts are trying to be controlled by thinking peaceful, calm thoughts. Cognitive behavioural therapy: trying to get people to engage in behaviours that will help them out, while at the same time utilizing their thoughts as a way to encourage and develop those behaviours. Usually treated with a combination of both drugs and cognitive therapy, All of them can be helped with drugs but it doesn"t get them to a: mood disorders & major depressive disorders: stage where it is enough. Critical issue for depressed people in their thinking is that they tend to make a catastrophe of all the events in their lives,