PSYC 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Faulty Generalization, Exposure Therapy, Systematic Desensitization
18 Apr 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
An intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems and improve quality of life . Psychodynamic: humanist, group therapy, family therapy, behavioural therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy. Insight therapies: psychodynamic (freud, problems stem from childhood experiences, want to analyze distressing thoughts, with insight, problems will disappear, humanistic, emphasize human potential and believe that human nature is positive, person-centered, genuine, unconditional positive regard, empathic. Group & family therapy: group therapy, efficient, saves time, saves money, e. g. , alcoholics anonymous, family therapy, goal is to treat dysfunctional family system, focus on the family unit rather than an individual. Behavioural therapy: focus is on specific behaviours that are problematic, try to understand the environmental causes of person"s problems, create very specific and measureable goals to base treatment off of. Cognitive behavioural therapy (cbt: purpose is to replace maladaptive or irrational cognitions and behaviours with more adaptive, rational ones . Thoughts affect feelings which affect behaviours; they are all connected.
