PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Motivational Interviewing, Reuptake, Polypharmacy

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2012
• Professor: Rachel Heatherly

Document Summary

Psychotherapy- a psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives: 20% of americans have received psychological treatment at some point. Paraprofessionals- helpers who have no formal professional psychological training but still often provide psychological services: help to fill the gap between the large amount of patients and the much smaller amount of providers. Insight therapies- aim to cultivate insight, that is, expanded self-awareness and knowledge: psychodynamic therapies- inspired by classical psychoanalysis and influenced by. Transference- clients project intense, unrealistic feelings and expectations from their past onto the analyst: working through- final stage, analysts help clients process their problems xi. Neo-freudian techniques: individuation- the integration of opposing aspects of the personality, such as passive and aggressive, developed by carl. Jung: interpersonal psychotherapy- harry stack sullivan, 12-16 sessions designed to strengthen social skills, humanistic therapies- emphasis on insight, self-actualization, intrinsic goodness of human nature, reject the interpretive techniques of psychoanalysis.