PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Exposure Therapy, Therapeutic Touch, Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: N/ A

Document Summary

Token economy: give a token which they can collect to exchange for a reward. Cognitive-behavioural therapy: combine techniques of cognitive and behaviour therapy; working on thinking and behavioural patterns of a person: group and family therapy. Can use any of the therapies that have been discussed. Instead of each one of them seeing one therapist at a time, they are put together with one therapist. Sitting with people who share the same problem. Research people of the same disorder at same level. Compare the results of those who went and didn"t go to therapy. Meat-analysis: a powerful statistical technique used to study a large number studies. The more specific the problem, the better the results of therapy. Psychotherapy on its own can make changes in the brain: the relative effectiveness of different therapies. Instructions will be given later on: evaluating alternative therapies.