PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Systematic Desensitization, Tardive Dyskinesia, Spontaneous Remission
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All psychotherapies involve a helping relationship (the treatment) between a professional with special training (the therapist) and another person in need of help (the client). As varied as therapists" procedures are, approaches to treatment can be classified into. Treatments: how many types are there? three major categories: Insight therapy is talk therapy in the tradition of freud"s psychoanalysis. Behavior therapies are based on the principles of learning and conditioning. Biomedical approaches to therapy involve interventions into a person"s physiological functioning. The most widely used procedures are drug therapy and electroconvulsive therapy. People seeking mental health treatment show up with the full range of human problems: Among adults, the two most common presenting problems are depression and anxiety. Psychotherapy refers to professional treatment by someone with special training. Psychology and psychiatry are the principal professions involved in psychotherapy, providing the lion"s share of mental health care.
