PSYCH-190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Virtual Reality Therapy, Radio Reading Service, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
28 Sep 2020
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Five r"s: response, remission, relapse, recovery, recurrence. Getting help to those who need it. Service - investment counseling and sat prep. Purchased friendship - someone to talk to. Offers new possibilities for treating people with psychological disorders, especially phobias. Clients can practice engaging in virtual experiment before tacking the real-life experiences they fear. People may not realize that their disorder needs to be treated. There may be barriers to treatment, such as beliefs and circumstances that keep people from getting help. Even people who acknowledge they have a problem may not know where to look for services. Psychotherapy in which a person interacts with a psychotherapist (focuses on mind) Medical or biological treatment in which the mental disorder is treated with drugs or surgery (focuses on brain and body) An interaction between a therapist and someone suffering from a psychological problem, with the goal of providing support or relief from the problem.
