Psychology 1000 Lecture 16: psychology chapter 16

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Lynda Hutchinson

Document Summary

Chapter 16 approaches to treatment and therapy. Cautions about drug treatments: 1. the placebo effect. The apparent success of a medication or treatment due to the patient"s expectations or hopes than rather to the drug treatment itself. Ensures that most people will respond positively: 2. high relapse and dropout rate. A person may have short term success with antipsychotic or antidepressant drugs. Because of the side effects 1/2 -2/3 of people stop taking them and then relapse because of that: 3. dosage problems. Other ways of treatment could be better than taking medication such as behavioural therapy ect: 5. unknown long term risks. Antipsychotic drugs can have dangerous and even fatal consequences if taken for many years. Antidepressants have been assumed safe but it is still unknown: 6. untested off the label uses. Doctors are prescribing drugs for different disorders than what the drug was made for. Antidepressants are been marketed for social phobias".