PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Group Psychotherapy, Relationship Counseling, Classical Conditioning

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Insight-oriented therapy: e. g. psychoanalysis, humanistic, gestalt, help person understand the basis of their thinking, behavior, emotions and perceptions. Insight into the cause will lead to change: emotion focused therapy or process experiential, action-oriented therapy, e. g. Cognitive-behavioral therapy, rational-emotive therapy: encourages individuals to change behavior or thinking, multifaceted and individually tailored, strong therapeutic relationship, behavioral techniques and cognitive restructuring. Varieties of psychological treatment: psychodynamic therapy, the psychodynamic approach was created by s. freud, mental symptoms reflect unconscious conflicts that induce anxiety. Initial focus is on a detailed behavioral analysis: focus is on the problem behavior and the stimuli associated with it: cognitive reconstructing. Irrational beliefs: beck or ellis, extreme emotional reactions, abc"s of rational emotive therapy, a activating event, b belief, c consequences (emotional, d disputing beliefs, biological/biomedical, group therapy, family and marital therapy. Research indicates: receiving psychotherapy is considerably more effective than no treatment.