PS101 Lecture Notes - Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Systematic Desensitization, Gestalt Therapy
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The needs of the client can come before the needs of the science. Hospitals and medical staff do a difficult job. Not everything is a clear sign of a disease, some may be mixed. It could be a, it could be b or it could be ab. As you saw last chapter diagnosis is not easy. Help is needed cant wait for better treatment. Easy to criticize what is being don and this is necessary but we need to evaluate. Not mutually exclusive, some can be combined to be very effective (some cannot) Talk: the relationship between patient and therapist is verbal and you are reconfiguring your thinking. Behaviouralist: based on learning new skills and behaviours. He believed that if the patient recognized the root problems, that the insight would help them achieve insight into the real problem. Plays the game with working in real like.