PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Automatic Negative Thoughts, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Approaches to treatment are diverse, but they can be grouped into three categories: insight therapies, behaviour therapies, and. Clients bring a wide variety of problems to therapy and do not necessarily have a disorder. People vary in their willingness to seek treatment, and many people who need therapy do not receive it. biomedical therapies. Therapists come from a variety of professional backgrounds. Clinical and counselling psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, psychiatric nurses, and counsellors are the principal providers of therapeutic services. Each of these professions shows different preferences for approaches to treatment. Sigmund freud - widely credited with modern psychotherapy. Was inspired by josef breuer s patient referred to as anna o - breuer found that her symptoms cleared up when she was encouraged to talk about emotionally charged experiences from her past. Freud applied breuer s insight to other patients - led him to develop a systematic treatment procedure called psychoanalysis.