PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Bipolar Disorder, Alcoholism, Social Skills
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Who provides treatment: clinical psychologists (ph. d. or psy. d. , counseling psychologists (ph. d or m. a. , psychiatrists (m. d. , social workers (m. s. w. , l. c. s. w. , psychiatric nurses (r. n. , counselors (m. a. /m. s. , m. ed. , m. f. c. , etc) Goal: discover unresolved, unconscious conflicts via free association, dream analysis. Transference: classical psychoanalysis still exists but is only practiced by a small percentage of therapists, laid groundwork for more common psychodynamic approaches. Insight therapies: client centered therapy: carl rogers. Goal: restructure self-concept to better correspond to reality. Clarification rather than interpretation: therapeutic climate. Rebuilding client"s personality: brief psychodynamic approaches. Behavior therapies: based on principles of behaviorism. Goal: unlearning maladaptive behavior and learning adaptive ones: systematic desensitization. Goal: weaken association between cs and cr of anxiety. Pair previously noxious cs with deep, deep, deep relaxation: aversion therapy. Alcoholism, sexual deviance, smoking, etc: social skills training. What about cognitions: cognitive factors = key role in development and maintenance of psychological disorders. Bidirectional links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
