PSY343H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tunnel Vision, Psychoanalysis, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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Attempts to: explain process of change, offer prescription to both counselor and client, explain origin of development, define healthy and unhealthy, guiding framework. Having no theory is like having no direction. Start with one good established theory with room to grow. Avoid theory hopping: superficial understanding and difficult to do due to conflict/ complexity of theories. Precision and testability: defined constructs and relationships -> generates predictions about behaviour that are testable (cognitive distortions in anorexia) Empirical support: meta-analysis, several studies, effective/sig diff between treated and untreated, efficacy studies, temple study. Informed consent: clients ha(cid:448)e right to kno(cid:449) (cid:449)hat"s happening (cid:449)ith therapy. Confidentiality: clearly defined rules regarding boundaries. Competence: ability to use knowledge and skills in ethical practice. Multiple relationships: engagement in sexual relationships defined in ethical codes. Wednesday psychological society laid foundation for profession of psychology and practice of psychotherapy. Conflicts between genetically built-in drives, instincts of self-preservation, sex and destruction. Unconscious most powerful source of behaviour (iceberg theory)
