PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Specific Phobia, Family Therapy, Debriefing
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April 01 2010 repressed conflict subtle and often disguised signs of these conflicts. Emotional release conflicts are resolved: individual can lead a healthy life. Psychodynamic: make unconscious conflicts conscious allowing insight and relief. Existential family cognitive schemas providing a safe, non-judgemental setting foster acceptance and responsibility and discovering of meaning identify and change patterns of interacting that perpetuate problems in relationships. Evaluating psychotherapy: success of therapy depends on the quality of relationship between therapist and client. Therapeutic alliance: bond of confidence and mutual understanding established between therapist and client, and allows them to work together to solve the clients problems. Cultural match may help, but may not. Scientist-practitioner gap: breach between scientists and therapists over different assumptions held by researchers and many clinicians regarding the value of empirical research for doing psychotherapy and assessing its effectiveness efficacy lab . Many psychotherapists frustrated with the gap between the measure of a therapy in a lab and its application in life.
