PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Harvey Marmurek

Document Summary

Textbook: psychology tenth edition in modules authored by david g. myers. Today"s providers of psychotherapy include clinical and counselling psychologists clinical social workers clergy, marital and school counsellors and psychiatric nurses. Clients" perceptions: 89% said they were at least fairly well satisfied. Clients may need to believe the therapy was worth the effort. Clinician"s perceptions: therapists appreciate thanks at ends of sessions but hear little from clients who experience only temporary relief and seek out new therapists for recurring problems. Regressing from unusual to usual: clients" and therapists" perception of therapy"s effectiveness are vulnerable to inflation from two phenomena. Placebo effect (power of belief in treatment) and regression toward the mean (tendency for unusual events/emotions to regress/return to their average state. Outcome research: hans eysenck launched a spirited debate, summarizing studies showing that two- thirds of those receiving psychotherapy for non-psychotic disorders improved markedly. He also reported similar improvement among untreated persons time is a great healer.