PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Relationship Counseling, Cognitive Restructuring

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

Document Summary

Psychological therapies: whereas the biological therapies view mental disorders through the medical model, psychological therapies view the roots of abnormal behavior in mental states. Each therapy has its own view as to the cause of mental disorder. Each therapy has its own approach to the treatment of mental disorder. 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. 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. Psychodynamic approach: the psychodynamic approach was created by s. freud. Mental symptoms reflect unconscious conflicts that induce anxiety. Insight refers to the situation in a person comes to understand their unconscious conflicts. Therapeutic change requires an alliance (relationship) between the patient and therapist.