PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Clozapine, Systematic Desensitization, Alprazolam
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What goes wrong: guilt implications, anxiety, confusion. For choice that didn"t work out or had unforeseen. Therapy helps you by: discover freedom, value experiencing yourself, value the richness of the moment, cultivate individuality, realize full potential. Therapist roles in this therapy: create environment to achieve self actualization. Conditions to produce personality changes: clients relationships with others, vulnerability to anxiety, therapists genuineness, unconditional positive regard, empathy, perception of therapists" genuineness. Assumptions: change problems feelings and behaviours by changing the way a client thinks about significant life experiences, what people feel and do starts with the problem in the way people think. Therapists role in therapy: identify irrational and self defeating thought patterns, help clients discover and change cognitions that underlie problems. Maladaptive behaviours are the problems, not a symptom. Maladaptive behaviours can be unlearned through classical and operant conditioning, modeling. Treatment options: phobias are treated by systematic desensitization or exposure". Eliminating anxiety through counterconditioning therapy: flooding, implosion.
