PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Family Therapy, Dream Interpretation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Psychotherapy: formal psyc treatment, interactions btwn practitioner and client, help client understand symptoms, provide solutions. Bio therapies: treatment based on medical approaches to illness / disease, based on notion that mental disorders result from abnormalities in neural/bodily processes. Psychodynamic therapy: reformulation of freud ideas, help patient examine needs/defenses/motives to understand why distressed. Motivational interviewing - short period of time: cognitive and behavioral therapies target thoughts/behaviors: treat thoughts/behaviors as problem (instead of maladaptive behavior considered result of underlying problem). Behavior therapy: based on premise that behavior learned, can be unlearned through use of classical/operant conditioning. Social skills training used to elicit desired behavior, modeling. Cognitive therapy: based on theory that distorted thoughts produce maladaptive behaviors/emotions, treatment strategies attempt to modify these thought patterns. Cognitive restructuring: help patients recognize maladaptive thoughts patterns and replace them with ways of viewing world that are more in tune with reality.