PSY 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Philippe Pinel, Personalization, Observational Learning
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Therapy:* treatment methods aimed at making people feel better and function more effectively. Two broad categories of therapy: o(cid:374)e (cid:271)ased p(cid:396)i(cid:373)a(cid:396)il(cid:455) i(cid:374) psychological theory a(cid:374)d te(cid:272)h(cid:374)i(cid:395)ues, the othe(cid:396) uses medical intervention to bring symptoms under control. Psychotherapy* therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem talks with a psychological professional. Psychotherapy: insight therapy* psychotherapies in which main goal is helping people gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts, feelings. Psychotherapy: action therapy* psychotherapy in which the main goal is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior directly. Biomedical therapy therapy for mental disorders in which a person is treated with biological or mental methods to relieve symptoms, can be surgical based or noninvasive. Science vs pseudoscience in clinical: science uses scientific method to guard against biases, test hypotheses, use standard/reliable/valid measures, focus on findings that have been replicated.
