PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Joseph Wolpe, Unconditional Positive Regard, Social Skills
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Has a medical degree and can prescribe medications: clinical social workers, psychiatric nurses, counsellors: anyone can be called a counsellor. Typically, they will have a master"s degree in an applicable field. Often are specified to very specific areas like in schools or for families. Insight therapies: psychoanalysis: freud and followers: goal to discover unresolved unconscious sexual conflicts between superego and id. We often supress this conflict and it surfaces as mental illness. Free association: the first thing that comes to your mind. Interpretation: analysis. subjective interpretation between free association and dream: during psychoanalysis, people will usually go through two stages. Resistance comes first, where they don"t want to talk or will show up chronically late to appointments. Next, there will be transference where the patient starts treating the therapist in a way that they would treat someone important and significant to them. Insight therapies: client centred therapy: carl rogers: humanistic, gets the person to help themselves.