PSCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cognitive Therapy, Stage Fright, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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A therapist or helper who is accepted as capable of helping the client. A relationship between the client and therapist. All forms of treatment are based on some theory about the cause of the client"s problems. People can receive treatment either as inpatients or outpatients. Medical doctors who are authorized to prescribe drugs. Therapists with a doctoral degree in clinical but cannot prescribe. Dsm (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders) Provide making a diagnosis based on symptoms. Definition: psychological therapy in which therapists try to improve mental health by changing the way which clients think, reducing negative, mental health by changing the way which clients think, reducing negative, self- defeating thoughts. Beck"s cognitive therapy: thoughts which create distress are often automatic; conversations used to achieve therapeutic goals. Person experiences anxiety so intense and long-lasting that it disrupts a person"s daily functioning. Definition: an intense, irrational fear of an object or situation that is not likely to be dangerous.
