PSY100H1 Lecture : Social Psychology
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Lecture 8 social psychology (little from lecture 7) Continued for lecture 7 - disorders and treatments. "talk therapy" - importance of common factors: insight o. Psychodynamic approach: expressing one"s thoughts and feelings for only about 15mintues a day greatly increased mental health o. Pennebaker"s work on writing about personal trauma: drugs o. Likelihood of someone who can"t even get out of bed to part take in cognitive- behavioral is slim so drugs are used as therapy instead o. Used mostly for bipolar and schizophrenia: behavior modification and specific behavioral interventions, cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt) = thought restructuring + behavioral skills training, ee - emotional environment (within the family) o. High ee - family that is overly critical and involved in the patients lives (unhealthy families) o o. For schizophrenics, unhealthy families create relapse much more likely. Drug treatment alone is not very effective treatment.
