PSY 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Natural Arch, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Introjection
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Psychology in the news: deliberate slow breathing decreases symptoms of anxiety and depression and helps with sleep. Page !1: psychotherapy is focused on managing behaviors, personality disorders are caused by deep-rooted problems and are best treated with psychoanalysis, anxiety and depression can be treated with cbt or cbt + medication. Debunked: myth: low self-esteem causes psychological problems, reality: no causal links exist between self-esteem and psychological problems. Introduction: nearly half of all americans will experience mental illness at some point in their lives, mental health problems affect more than 1/4 of the population in any given year, the most effective psychotherapy approach is cbt. Humanistic and person-centered therapy: began in mid-20th century, mental health problems result from an inconsistency between patients" behavior and their true personal identity. Page !3: goal is to create conditions under which patients can discover their self-worth, feel comfortable exploring their own identity, and alter their behavior to better re ect this identity.
