PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Borderline Personality Disorder, Prefrontal Cortex
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Humanistic therapy: oger(cid:859)s clie(cid:374)t-centered therapy, therapeutic climate, genuineness, unconditional positive regard, empathy, therapeutic process, guidance, clarification, become more comfortable with genuine self. Cognitive-behavioral therapies: cognitive-behavioral therapies focus on the current behaviors of a person, emphasis is on the present rather than the past, cognitive-behavioral therapists are very directive, therapy duration is short-term rather than years long. Initial focus is on a detailed behavioral analysis: focus is on the problem behavior and the stimuli associated with it. In last 10 years we have started to make modifying disorders which are specific to disorders like borderline personality disorder: created dialectic behaviour therapy cognitive behaviour helps with particular types of behaviour therapy. The medical model: the medical model views abnormal behavior as reflecting a biological disorder, usually localized within the brain. Involving either brain damage or a disruption of the neurotransmitter processes of the brain. If you(cid:859)re (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:373)plati(cid:448)e a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ot sure the(cid:374) you (cid:449)o(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:271)e a(cid:271)le to (cid:271)e treated.
